If your corporation has less that 250 employees, Visual Studio 2013 professional is free under the name of community edition

https://www.visualstudio.com/products/visual-studio-community-vs

So now you can debug your indies for free

VS profiling probably won't work though

Profile your code using Visual Studio 2010 Caution if you use Windows 8: 1. Profiling won't work in VS2010 2. You won't get per-line sample values in VS2012 because it only works with .Net >=4.0. So useless as well. Thanks MS, guess I'll have to reinstall W7 somewhere... The …

Yes, this is great news, the price for pro version was too high (at least to me, used to the brilliant and free XCode IDE for Mac).