Windows 10: New Benefits in Visual Studio Subscriptions

Brink · Dec 11, 2018

Last week at Microsoft Connect();, we announced two new benefits to assist cloud migration for our users who have Visual Studio Subscriptions. If you missed the event or want to watch the on-demand trainings, check out the Connect(); event page. If you’re a current Visual Studio subscriber, activate your new benefits to get started right away. To learn more about our developer subscriptions and programs visit the Visual Studio website.

Here are more details on the two new benefits:

CAST Highlight

Developers need critical insights on their software when migrating to the cloud. With CAST Highlight, Visual Studio Enterprise subscribers can rapidly scan their application source code to identify the cloud readiness of their applications for migration to Microsoft Azure and monitor progress of their app both during and after a migration. Check out this video from CAST to see it in action.

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Visual Studio Enterprise subscribers can get a free, full-featured one-month subscription to CAST Highlight for up to five apps per subscriber.

UnifyCloud’s CloudPilot

Developers also need solutions that enable quick and easy app migration to the cloud. CloudPilot helps move apps to Microsoft Azure in a few easy steps, including identifying all required changes down to the line of code for successful migration to containers, virtual machines, App Service, Azure SQL, and SQL Managed Instance. See this video from UnifyCloud to learn more about CloudPilot.

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Visual Studio Enterprise subscribers are eligible for two 90-day free licenses to the full-featured CloudPilot, while Visual Studio Professional subscribers can take advantage of one 30-day license to scan apps and databases of millions of lines of code in minutes.

Log into the Visual Studio Subscriptions portal at https://my.visualstudio.com today to get your new benefits.

Let us know what you want to see with the Visual Studio Subscriptions by sharing your feedback, suggestions, thoughts, and ideas in the comments below!

Lan Kaim,
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Source: New Benefits in Visual Studio Subscriptions | The Visual Studio Blog

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Andre Da Costa · Dec 11, 2018

Visual studio pricing

My company is currently looking to move to 2015. From looking at the following pricing at Pricing and Purchasing Options | Visual Studio it
looks like it would cost $499 for a standard licence. I am new to this and trying to understand this. Does this mean if we have 10 developers it would cost us $4990 to upgrade?

That is correct.

Is there a cheaper way to do this? volume buying etc

You might want to consider
Visual Studio Express

The same page you linked to provides information about how to purchase through Microsoft Volume License Programs:

If you purchase through a local reseller in the Microsoft Open License program, please request the following part numbers:*

Buy new: 77D-00092

Renew: 77D-00095

Cloud subscription
+

Cloud subscriptions

$539/yr

Buy now
$45/mo

Buy now

*Buy from a local reseller: Visual Studio subscriptions sold in Open License last 2 years. (Minimum purchase: 1 subscription or 5 Visual Studio Professional 2015 licenses.)

1Perpetual license terms: while all non-software benefits expire, you can continue using the software after subscription expiration (except for purchases in Enterprise Subscription Agreement, Open Value Subscription, and Campus Agreement
programs)

Visual Studio Enterprise
An integrated, end-to-end solution for teams of any size with demanding quality and scale needs.

Learn more about Visual Studio Enterprise >

Visual Studio Enterprise with MSDN
Annual
Monthly

Purchasing Channels

Microsoft Volume Licensing Programs (resellers) and Microsoft Store

Visual Studio Marketplace (requires an Azure subscription for billing)

Subscription Term

12 months (Microsoft Store)

24 months (Open License program)

36 months (other Volume Licensing programs)

12 months

1 month

Licensing Terms

Perpetual 1

Non-perpetual

Team Collaboration

Access to any Visual Studio Team Services account with the Test Manager extension, plus a TFS user CAL

Access to any Visual Studio Team Services account with the Test Manager extension, plus a TFS user CAL

Subscriber Benefits

Full Benefits

Full Benefits

None

Pricing

Microsoft Store:

$5,999

Buy now
$2,569

Renew
If you purchase through a local reseller in the Microsoft Open License program, please request the following part numbers:*

Buy new: MX3-00098

Renew: MX3-00100

$2,999/yr

Buy now

$250/mo

Buy now

Standard Subscription

Cloud Subscriptions

Visual Studio Enterprise with MSDN

Purchasing Channels

Microsoft Volume Licensing Programs (resellers) and Microsoft Store

Subscription Term

12 months (Microsoft Store)

24 months (Open License program)

36 months (other Volume Licensing programs)

Licensing Terms

Perpetual 1

Team Collaboration

Access to any Visual Studio Team Services account with the Test Manager extension, plus a TFS user CAL

Subscriber Benefits

Full Benefits

Pricing

Microsoft Store:

$5,999

Buy now
$2,569

Renew
If you purchase through a local reseller in the Microsoft Open License program, please request the following part numbers:*

Buy new: MX3-00098

Renew: MX3-00100

Annual
Monthly

Purchasing Channels

Visual Studio Marketplace (requires an Azure subscription for billing)

Subscription Term

12 months

1 month

Licensing Terms

Non-perpetual

Team Collaboration

Access to any Visual Studio Team Services account with the Test Manager extension, plus a TFS user CAL

Subscriber Benefits

Full Benefits

None

Pricing

$2,999/yr

Buy now

$250/mo

Buy now

Standard subscription
+

Visual Studio Enterprise with MSDN

Microsoft Store:

$5,999

Buy now
$2,569

Renew
If you purchase through a local reseller in the Microsoft Open License program, please request the following part numbers:*

Buy new: MX3-00098

Renew: MX3-00100

Cloud subscription
+

Cloud subscriptions

$2,999/yr

Buy now

$250/mo

Buy now

*Buy from a local reseller: Visual Studio subscriptions sold in Open License last 2 years. (Minimum purchase: 1 subscription or 5 Visual Studio Professional 2015 licenses.)

1Perpetual license terms: while all non-software benefits expire, you can continue using the software after subscription expiration (except for purchases in Enterprise Subscription Agreement, Open Value Subscription, and Campus Agreement
programs)

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Drive quality and collaboration throughout the development process.

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or
Renew

If you purchase through a local reseller in the Microsoft Open License program, please request the following part numbers:* Buy new: L5D-00143 Renew: L5D-00146

Team Foundation Server
An enterprise-grade server for teams to share code, track work, and ship software — for any language, all in a single package. It’s the perfect complement to your IDE.

Learn more about Team Foundation Server >

With Team Foundation Server, you license the server and the users connecting to the server. Users who only need access to work items are free, and other users need a user CAL (client access license) for access to most features in Team Foundation Server.

Each Visual Studio subscription includes a server license and one user CAL for Team Foundation Server, making this one of the best ways to acquire Team Foundation Server. You can also acquire TFS CALs by

purchasing users in your Visual Studio Team Services account.

Download trial

MSDN Platforms
Software, services, support, and training - MSDN Platforms gives IT Operations staff and Java developers access to a wide range of resources that help your organization succeed without the incremental cost Visual Studio.

Learn more about MSDN Platforms >

If you purchase through a local reseller in the Microsoft Open License program, please request the following part numbers:* Buy new: 3VU-00077 Renew: 3VU-00079

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R-D · Dec 11, 2018

MSDN subscription appears only limited to Visual Studio

You would go to the Visual Studio website, and choose one of their products with subscriber benefits.

For example, the Visual Studio Professional subscription, which comes with Subscriber Benefits. These benefits then include Windows and other tools. Be aware, there might restrictions on those Windows Licenses, such as only to be used for testing.

I don't think these licenses are sold separate. See visualstudio.com for more information.

Brink · Dec 11, 2018

New Visual Studio, Visual Studio for Mac, .NET Core and Xamarin.Forms

Microsoft Build has always been a time when we deliver a wealth of developer-focused announcements. It’s an opportunity to share our vision for developer experiences across mobile, AR/VR, cloud, web, desktop, IoT and AI. This year, I’m excited to have brought this vision to life with more than a few exciting announcements:

.NET Core 2.1 RC

Future of Windows Desktop Development

Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7

Visual Studio for Mac version 7.5

Xamarin Forms 3.0 General Availability

Visual Studio Live Share Public Preview

Introducing Visual Studio IntelliCode

For an overview of announcements across the company, check out Scott Guthrie’s blog post; but for a round-up of Visual Studio and .NET headlines, read on.

.NET Core 2.1 RC

As of today, .NET Core 2.1 Release Candidate (RC) is available with a “Go-Live” license to use in production. .NET Core 2.1 improves on previous releases with hard-won performance gains and many new features:

ASP.NET Core SignalR. Developers have been using SignalR to build real-time web communication solutions since 2013 on the .NET Framework. The stack has been streamlined and improved to run on the cross-platform and higher performance .NET Core runtime. We also released SignalR as an Azure service.

ASP.NET Core web platform enhancements including support for Razor UI in class libraries, improvements in building WebAPIs, security enhancements, a new Identity UI library and HttpClientFactory.

Entity Framework Core 2.1 introduces significant capabilities like lazy loading, data seeding, new data providers and enhanced support for CosmosDB.

.NET Core 2.1 significantly improves build & runtime performance. It also introduces a new deployment and extensibility model for global tools.

ASP.NET Core 2.1 is more than 15% faster than version 2.0. This means that when ASP.NET Core is released, it will top the TechEmpower benchmarks as the fastest mainstream web framework on the planet.

Of course, .NET Core remains free, cross-platform, and open source – just as it has been since 2014.

Learn more about .NET Core 2.1 RC.

Future of Windows Desktop Development

While we’re excited to release .NET Core 2.1 RC, we’re not stopping there. Today, we introduced the roadmap for .NET Core 3, which brings desktop development to our open source .NET stack. We are adding Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Windows Forms on top of .NET Core. As always, developers building Universal Windows Platform apps will also continue to benefit from all the .NET Core improvements.

.NET Core 3.0 will enable Windows desktop apps use a globally installed .NET, or an app local copy, or build a single .EXE which includes .NET. Thus, .NET apps will no longer be impacted by system-wide updates. More importantly, this will allow us to make improvements to WPF and Windows Forms that we previously could not have done with .NET Framework without risking compatibility to existing apps

With .NET Core 3.0, developers will have the ability to share and easily integrate UI controls across all the major Windows desktop frameworks. You’ll be able to incorporate whatever UI controls make the most sense for your scenario, or even take a phased migration approach to modernizing your app’s UI. Developers will be able to seamlessly integrate almost all the Windows 10 API surface area into their .NET apps such as Cortana, Windows Hello, Windows ML, Rome, and more. And developers will be able to take advantage of the performance improvements and new API’s in .NET Core.

Developers targeting .NET Framework 4.8, the next version of .NET Framework, will also benefit from the improvements we plan to make such as the new Edge-based WebView control that they can host inside their apps, with more controls planned. And support for XAML Islands bringing UWP UI into existing applications.

This roadmap represents a significant investment in Windows desktop development by empowering developers to adopt the latest innovations in Windows 10 and .NET Core in their WPF and Windows Forms apps.

Learn more about the .NET Core 3.0 Roadmap.

Visual Studio 2017, version 15.7

Our flagship IDE, Visual Studio, received a significant upgrade today with the announcement of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7. John Montgomery’s blog post has a full run-down of all the new capabilities, but some of the more significant headlines include:

Cloud development: You’ll find several improvements to the project scaffolding and unit testing. Additionally, you can publish Helm charts directly to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). You can now also directly publish .NET applications to Kubernetes containers. For your ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core applications, you can configure the Key Vault connected service directly from the IDE.

Debugging: IntelliTrace’s new step-back debugging, first shipped in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5, is now available for .NET Core applications. The feature automatically takes a snapshot of your application on each breakpoint and debugger step so you can step “back in time” to view previous application states.

MSVC C++ 17 conformance: Today, we are happy to announce we have reached full C++ 17 conformance in MSVC with Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7. We also added ClangFormat support for C++ developers in the IDE. Developers can use ClangFormat to automatically style and format your code as you type, in a way that can be enforced across your development team.

Python: This release contains an opt-in preview of the Python debugger based on the popular open source pydevd debug engine, offering improved performance for many debugging scenarios.

iOS and Android mobile development with Xamarin: The XAML editing experience has been greatly improved with full IntelliSense support. iOS devices can be provisioned for development with a single click, saving developers a lot of time and steps. Android and iOS project templates have been re-written to use the latest modern navigation patterns and are now better organized for improved discoverability.

Learn more about Visual Studio 2017, version 15.7

Visual Studio for Mac, version 7.5

Visual Studio 2017 wasn’t the only IDE to get an update. Today, we’re announcing Visual Studio for Mac version 7.5. This release includes bug fixes, performance improvements, and several new features:

New editors for Razor, JavaScript, and TypeScript for building web projects

Updated UI and templates for building serverless solutions with Azure Functions and .NET Core

.NET Standard Library projects are now a fully supported option for sharing code between platforms when building Xamarin.Forms solutions.

Preview support for Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) in Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) has arrived addressing one of our top UserVoice requests. Developers now have the option to use the existing Git source control integration or the new TFVC integration to manage their code.

Learn more about Visual Studio for Mac, version 7.5

Xamarin.Forms 3.0 General Availability

Today, we’re announcing immediate availability of Xamarin.Forms 3.0. Xamarin.Forms 3.0 delivers improved stability, faster performance, and new capabilities aimed at making it easier for you to create beautiful apps that work on Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows devices.

Xamarin.Forms 3.0 now builds with .NET Standard 2.0 using multi-targeting, while still maintaining support for PCL profiles and other .NET Standard versions. Projects load much faster when you use .NET Standard project types.

Xamarin.Forms 3.0 also includes a strong focus on developer productivity. Many developers are already familiar with the Visual State Manager already found in XAML for UWP and WPF. It’s now available for Xamarin.Forms, too. We’ve also heard from many ASP.NET developers who can build amazing layouts for the web using Flexbox and CSS. To empower these developers to build equally impressive layouts on mobile, we’ve added two features to Xamarin.Forms: FlexLayout and CSS. Xamarin.Forms 3.0 introduces both features without compromising the existing XAML experience desktop developers have come to know and love. Finally, because Xamarin apps are deployed globally, we also included right-to-left language support and many quality improvements in the 3.0 release.

Learn more about Xamarin.Forms 3.0

Visual Studio Live Share Public Preview

Today, we announced the public preview of Visual Studio Live Share. Now any developer can use Live Share to collaborate in real-time with other developers, with instant bi-directional collaboration directly from their existing tools like Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio Code. With Visual Studio Live Share:

It doesn’t matter if the developer sharing doesn’t use the same editor or have the same OS as you; join a Live Share session from your own development environment. No need to install project- specific dependencies or configure runtimes. You’ll view the project in your development tool, retaining all your customizations and themes.

Each team member in a Live Share session can separately open files, navigate, edit, and refactor code. Your changes are instantly reflected in your teammate’s editor. You can quickly jump to a teammate’s location and see their cursor as they make edits or pin to follow their actions. Want to focus their attention? Highlight a piece of code and it will highlight on their screen as well.

Use Live Share with any language on any application pattern, including serverless, cloud native, and IoT development. At Connect() 2017, we showed Live Share working with JavaScript and Node.js. Today, Live Share supports nearly every language supported by your development tool, including C#, Python, Java, Go, C++, and

Full-context sharing – Use Live Share to collaborate across all parts of your development workflow: co-editing, shared debugging, shared terminals, and shared servers (ports).

Learn more about Visual Studio Live Share

Visual Studio IntelliCode

Visual Studio IntelliCode is a new capability that enhances everyday software development with the power of AI. Today, IntelliCode provides intelligent suggestions to improve developer productivity and code quality in the tool that developers love, Visual Studio. Our vision is to apply AI to empower developers across the entire development lifecycle.

At Build, we shared a sneak peak of IntelliCode, showing how it uses AI to deliver better context-aware code completions, guide developers to code to the patterns and styles of their team, find difficult-to-catch code issues, and focus code reviews on areas that really matter.

Developers can sign up for news and a future private preview, as well as gain access to an experimental extension at http://aka.ms/intellicode

Send us Your Feedback

Our developer tools and services are shaped by your feedback, so please let us know what you think. To download, install and read documentation for all today’s announcements, go to:

.NET Core 2.1 RC

.NET Core 3.0 Roadmap announcement

Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7

Visual Studio for Mac version 7.5

Xamarin Forms 3.0 General Availability

Visual Studio Live Share Public Preview

Introducing Visual Studio IntelliCode

If you have any trouble, you can report a problem from inside the IDE on both Visual Studio and Visual Studio for Mac.

To track issues, ask questions and find answers, explore the Visual Studio Developer Community. Or, to engage with our team and other Visual Studio developers in real-time chat, try our new Gitter community (requires GitHub account). We welcome your product suggestions through UserVoice. And, should you need it, you can also get free installation help through Live Chat Support.

Finally, don’t forget that we have three full days of announcements, deep dives, and developer interviews to share. You can live-stream or watch on-demand video later from the Microsoft Build website.

Happy coding.

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