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Hi All,

I want to ask about subscription for visual studio for development, soon i'll try to maintain all development and azure devops process myself and confused about visual studio subscription. As i know, my organization have only dev essential subscription. Could anyone explain is it enough for only using that subscription.

Thanks,

Masha

  • masha_14 Profile Picture
    95 on at
    RE: Visual Studio Subscription

    Hi Nikolaos

    Thanks for the explanation

    Regards,

    Masha

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    nmaenpaa Profile Picture
    101,158 Moderator on at
    RE: Visual Studio Subscription

    No, Visual Studio Test Professional doesn't include the actual Visual Studio development environment (IDE) license so you can't use it for development.

    visualstudio.microsoft.com/.../

    But you can purchase Azure Test Plans license separately for ADO Test Plans.

    docs.microsoft.com/.../manual-test-permissions

  • masha_14 Profile Picture
    95 on at
    RE: Visual Studio Subscription

    Hi Nikolaos,

    I would like to use Test Plan feature in Azure Devops and i saw that i need Test Professional Subscription rather than VS Professional subscription, could Test Professional Subscription support for development too, or should i buy this 2 licenses.

    Thanks,

    Masha

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    nmaenpaa Profile Picture
    101,158 Moderator on at
    RE: Visual Studio Subscription

    "Dev essentials" is a free subscription that anyone can have. For D365FO development you need to buy at least Visual Studio Professional subscription.

  • WillWU Profile Picture
    22,352 on at
    RE: Visual Studio Subscription

    Hi masha14,

    VS 2015 Professional is installed on local development VMs, Once you sign-in to VS with a valid Microsoft Account, you can use it for 90 days. When the trial license expires, you will need a valid VS license, if you want to develop and run performance and load tests, you will need VS 2015 Enterprise.

    See the old thread:

    https://community.dynamics.com/365/financeandoperations/f/dynamics-365-for-finance-and-operations-forum/380938/microsoft-visual-studio-license-on-development-vm-for-d365-finance-and-operations-application

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