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I recently installed Visual Studio 2017 Community and noticed that there is no CodeLens. I had CodeLens enabled on Visual Studio 2015 Community so I'm hoping that its also available for VS 2017 Community. How can I do so? Or is it no longer available for VS 2017 Community edition?

Enabling CodeLens on Visual Studio 2015 Community CodeLens on Visual Studio 2015 Community

kimbaudi
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You can see the officially enabled set of features per Visual Studio edition on the Compare Offerings page of the Visual Studio website.

A note on CodeLens + SSDT in particular: CodeLens was not officially supported as part of Visual Studio 2015 Community, nor is it supported in Visual Studio 2017. While some earlier versions of the SSDT installer for Visual Studio 2015 may have enabled the feature this was an error fixed in later updates. The official policy is that CodeLens is available in Visual Studio Professional and higher editions.

Kevin Cunnane
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    This is literally the only difference between Community and Pro editions (other than Enterprise usage). Could you please re-enable this bug, pretty please? – Mark Wojciechowicz Jul 14 '17 at 12:19
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    ...especially since visual studio code has codelens support and extensions built on codelens – Kurt Koller Oct 16 '17 at 19:33
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    it was a "mistake". Accidentally letting free users become accustomed to pro-features so they have a desire to upgrade after the "bug" was corrected. – SeanMC Dec 28 '17 at 14:33
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    I totally though CodeLens was a VS2017 standard feature... I just noticed it was missing in my Community edition at home. If it's available in Code- then it should definitely be enabled in VS Community. – Derek Foulk Jan 18 '18 at 05:10
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    $45/mo for CodeLens... jeez man. – Tyler Jan 25 '18 at 01:35
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    CodeLens [is coming](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/mt848632?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396) in Visual Studio 2019 for everyone – mcont Jan 14 '19 at 13:29
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Codelens in Visual Studio 2015 Community is enabled by installing SSDT 2015 with SSIS & SSAS, but they haven't releases SSDT, SSIS or SSAS 2017. so we have to wait till MS release, after then we could find out....

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