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
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
"Dev essentials" is a free subscription that anyone can have. For D365FO development you need to buy at least Visual Studio Professional 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.
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
Hi Nikolaos
Thanks for the explanation
Regards,
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