Visual Studio 2026 Licensing Guide

The general availability of Visual Studio 2026 is accompanied by an updated Licensing Guide. There aren’t big changes to the licensing so there are just a couple of small corresponding updates to the guide. For example, the Visual Studio Cloud subscriptions that you pay for through an Azure Subscription were previously called Cloud subscriptions, and now they’re known as Monthly subscriptions. Other changes include clarification where you’re not allowed to use Listed Providers’ infrastructure, and the removal of references to Team Explorer Everywhere since it’s no longer maintained by Microsoft.

You can help yourself to this updated guide here: https://bit.ly/4pan1PY.

General availability of Visual Studio 2022

Microsoft announce the general availability of the Visual Studio 2022 IDE.

There are the usual three editions available: Community is a free download, and Professional and Enterprise are the ones included in the Visual Studio Standard and Cloud subscriptions.

Find the announcement here: https://bit.ly/3DgP8W2.