RTM = Release to Manufacturing = full version.

minot · on July 20, 2015

How about my release candidate that I installed about a month back? Will it update automatically? Does it even need to? Did anything change?

SmellyGeekBoy · on July 20, 2015

If you're building Windows 10 Universal apps you should hold off until Windows 10 is released on the 29th. I just ran the VS2015 Community installer and it prompted me to remove the Windows 10 Universal Apps Tools RC.

minot · on July 21, 2015

Ah. I'll wait until I upgrade this computer to Windows 10. I will follow up with a clean install of Windows 10 if the nVidia drivers don't act up. Thank you!

Locke1689 · on July 20, 2015

Will it update automatically?

Not as far as I know.

Does it even need to?

Prereleases expire. You'll probably need to upgrade.

Did anything change?

A fair bit, yeah. Not sure if you'll notice, but things will be different and a lot of stuff may not work correctly.

tracker1 · on July 20, 2015

It's funny, but I started a user profile signing into a VS2013 version.. I had to reset my environment in order to get around some really buggy behavior in VS2015-RC ... that said, I do like most of the recent changes.