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I am an adjunct professor teaching database and programming classes. I own a desktop and laptop both running Windows. I own an Academic copy of VS 2010 and have it installed/activated at home.
Starting in the Fall I will be teaching C# .NET programming with VS 2010. However, the laptop at the college with it installed is a 5 year old POS. Can I install VS 2010 and activate with the same license on my laptop as I do with my desktop? Or does this violate the license with Microsoft? I thought about buying another copy - but the Academic reseller I deal with said I am only allowed to buy one copy a year. Both are used for Academic purpose - my day job provides me with a laptop so I am not worried they would ever think I am doing non-academic work with these - but I really need to have VS on both.
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MDV
As per this pdf (Page 1)
A single license for the Software may not be shared or used concurrently by multiple end users.
It looks to me that it can be installed on multiple machines as long as it is not used concurrently by multiple end users.
Also, reviewing this pdf (Page 9) I see
Visual Studio 2010 Client Edition-Only Licensing
Visual Studio 2010 products can be purchased without an MSDN subscription in certain channels. (See the How to Buy section of this paper for more details).The user can install and use the Visual Studio client software on as many devices as they like. However, the products are licensed on a per-user basis—that is, only the licensed user can use the software.
Yes you can, according to this thread on Visual Studio Developer Center/Visual Studio Forums. (And this comes from the Microsoft licensing specialists)
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I have been using VS2010 Pro from DreamSpark. I will shortly be joining a commercial organisation who will not be providing me with a VS license and as such I will need to purchase my own.
Is Visual Studio licensed per user, per machine, or per-user per-machine? I.e. if I buy one license am I able to exclusively use it on both my laptop and desktop?
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Visual Studio is licensed per user. You can have one installation on your laptop and another on your desktop as long as they are both used by you only (or any other user has a license). Here's Microsoft's whitepaper on licensing.
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One of my friends is making commercial program in vb6 , is there any license required to sell the application to end user. He is having vb6 developer license.
From the VB6 manual
You can freely distribute any application you create with Visual Basic to anyone who uses Microsoft Windows
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa716256(VS.60).aspx
If you have used third-party controls or other components, you must check whether you can distribute them. This link lists some Microsoft controls that you can redistribute.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/ms788708.aspx
There are no specific license requirements for VB6 applications that I know of. All that's important is that current operating systems ship with the VB6 runtimes, and for the moment that is true. The VB6 runtime comes pre-installed all the way up to Windows Server 2008 R2. There's a ton of useful information for your friend here:
Support Statement for Visual Basic 6.0 on Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/ms788708.aspx
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I would like to develop applications for the Windows platform & at the very least I need a server based Windows OS (2008), SQL Server, IIS and Visual Studio. Looks like VS2010 professional alone will cost over $1K. Is there a cheaper option to get hold of Microsoft software? I remember long time ago there was an MSDN subscription option which allowed user access to server based OS and other server applications with restrictive licensing that was cost effective. I don't see that option anymore. Moreover, I am not a student & I understand Microsoft provides software at discounted rates for students. Any pointers?
You can start off with the Express versions of these products, at little to no cost.
BizSpark
From here, emphasis added.
What Microsoft software is included?
All the software included in the
Visual Studio Team System Team Suite
(VSTS) with MSDN Premium subscription
Expression Studio (Version 2), plus
VSTS Team Foundation Server Standard
Edition - for the entire development
team The development tools provided
are the same as those in MSDN Premium
subscription, plus VSTS Team
Foundation Server. However, there are
features of MSDN Premium (such as
support and internal use licenses)
that are not included in BizSpark
Production license use rights, to
deploy, host and support Startup’s
"Software-plus-Services" applications
for delivery over the Internet, using
the most current releases of the
following products: Windows Server
(all editions), SQL Server (all
editions), BizTalk Server, and Office
SharePoint Server for hosting. To
deploy in production, a Startup may
self-host or select an authorized
BizSpark Hosting Partner through the
BizSpark Network Partner directory.
The Express editions of some of their software is available for free. However, you will still need to purchase the operating system with this option and will not get access to premium features.
The option for installing your own Server OS / SQL Server and alike you are probably thinking of is the personal http://technet.microsoft.com, which can be used for personal pruposes such as development and learning, but can not be used for production.
I personally have a copy to run Hyper-V, multiple server 2k3 images, a server 2k8 image, and multiple SQL servers + 1 oracle 11g. The number of licenses per OS / server application etc varies from 1 to 10 but most are 10 (except things like exchange, why would you want 10 exchanges?)
The price when I purchased it was £204 for the initial annual license, and an slightly reduced annual subscription fee.
It also comes with application licenses such as all of office, project, visio etc.
What it does not include is the development tools at all - to keep the cost down on those you have to use express or pay the money.
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For a very small side project, I need VS professional. Since the target is .net compact framework, the Express edition won't do (neither will Standard edition). But the price of VS professional exceeds the reasonable price for that project. (Basically, it's just a form with two text entry fields and a button, that creates a text file with the data entered).
Is there an application service provider that lets me use Visual Studio through RDP and charges per hour/day/month?
I've never used the program in anger, but I think that SharpDevelop will produce compact framework applications. You may find that it is feature rich enough for the simple application that you want to write.
AFAIK, the regular licence for VS is for the user, not the install. So if this is available (and I've not heard of it myself), it would be under a different license.
How large is the work? Could you get it done during a trial license? Hopefully that will be enough to convince you to buy a copy (or even an MSDN subscription) for long-term use.
Remember: Visual Studio is just the IDE. You can always use the available SDK and another editor. VS isn't the only .NET tool out there.
If it's not commerical but only for education, just download it from somewhere. Rent model would be stupid, while you contemplating and staring at the screen, there will be counter ticking your $$$$.
I am not sure if VS Prof offers trial period or not. You can try to finish up your project before trial period expired.
Related to Marc's suggestion of a trail version, currently there's also a beta of Visual Studio 2010, perhaps you can make it work for you. I haven't tested it, but it should be compatible with older versions of .net.
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I know that some companies allow you to install their products on build machines as required without requiring a separate license (DevExpress is one that comes to mind). However I was wondering if Microsoft had the same allowances on licenses.
MSBuild does not support vdproj directly and require you to run Visual Studio from the command line to build the setup project. See here
I need to produce a setup file via an automated build; do I need to purchase an additional license for the build machine?
Edit: I have spoken to our admin in charge of licensing and he was happy for me to install VS2008 on the build machine without purchasing an additional license, believing that a license should not be required. If I here more official information I will update again.
Edit 2: I have heard that Microsoft will allow VS2008 to be installed on a build machine as long as the instance is not being used by a developer for active development.
Here is the agreement (PDF link!). (There are different ones for different versions of VS). So it depends on how you read ...
General. One user may install and use copies of the software to design, develop, test and demonstrate your programs. Testing does not include staging on a server in a production environment, such as loading content prior
to production use.
To me that says you don't need an additional license because one user can install and use copies. But, I am not a lawyer. :)
According to the VS 2015 Licensing White Paper, you do not need a separate VS license for your build server:
Using Visual Studio on the Build Server: If you have one or more
licensed users of Visual Studio Enterprise with MSDN, Visual Studio
Professional with MSDN, or any Visual Studio cloud subscription then
you may also install the Visual Studio software as part of Team
Foundation Server 2017 Build Services. This way, you do not need to
purchase a Visual Studio license to cover the running of Visual Studio
on the build server for each person whose actions initiate a build.
Update (May 26, 2017)
Microsoft has also now published the Visual Studio 2017 Licensing Whitepaper as well, which has the exact same requirements as noted above.
msbuild.exe comes with .NET SDK, but just with the Framework. You can grab the 2.0 SDK here for free, but it's a big honking download. 3.5 is available as well, but it's even huger.