

Environments that support disaster-recovery or backup for a production environment.Environments that connect to a production database.“ any Physical or Virtual OSE running a production workload or accessing production data, or Physical OSE hosting one or more Virtual OSEs running production workloads or accessing production data”Īnd the Visual Studio Licensing Guide gives the following examples:

The Microsoft Product Terms define this as: Visual Studio software cannot be used in a production environment. Visual Studio subscriptions can be reassigned between users but only once every 90 days Production Environment The requirement for a “dedicated device” precludes Visual Studio from being used in public cloud shared environments such as Amazon AWS and Google GCP – although it can (in most cases) be run on Microsoft Azure. “ design, develop, test, and demonstrate their programs” “ any number of copies of the software and any prior version on any device” Note: Please follow the steps in our documentation to enable e-mail notifications if you want to receive the related email notification for this thread.Visual Studio subscriptions are licensed Per User with each licensed user able to use:

If you have extra questions about this answer, please click "Comment". If the answer is the right solution, please click " Accept Answer" and kindly upvote it. VS Professional also provides several workloads to support Visual Basic, you can install the corresponding workloads to write, edit and deploy your program written in Visual Basic. Some versions of SQL Server may be free, some may be not free(not very sure, you may check corresponding versions of SQL Server, and comply with their license). You may need to install SQL Server or corresponding extensions such as SSIS, SSAS, SSRS separately and connect, use it/them to develop your program in VS Professional. VS Professional provides a workload => Data storage and processing(connect, develop, and test data solutions with SQL Server, Azure Data Lake, or Hadoop) for developing related projects. In addition, from VS side, if you purchase Visual Studio Professional, you can choose to install the workloads that you want, to develop your program. Please kindly check van de Velde ‘s answer.
