The licence your developer needs to work compliantly, and the saving almost nobody calculates.
The Visual Studio Professional subscription includes the full development environment: editor, debugger, diagnostic tools, version control and testing, for desktop, web, mobile and cloud applications.
But the real value sits in the benefits that come with it, the same ones previously known as MSDN.
Each developer receives Microsoft software licences to build their development and test environments: Windows Server, SQL Server and other products, without buying production licences for a test machine.
It includes a monthly Azure credit to spin up cloud environments, test and tear them down without touching the infrastructure budget.
It also carries an Azure DevOps licence for managing the team's repository, work boards and continuous integration pipelines.
And it adds access to technical training resources and support incidents with Microsoft.
The 3 year term locks in the price for the whole period, which matters in a development team because the toolset is not changed every year.
A licensing note: this subscription is named, assigned to a specific person, and is not shared between developers.
And the software included in the benefits is strictly for development and testing, never for production environments.
We confirm how many subscriptions your team needs, activate the benefits and support your developers through setup.