Microsoft announce the retirement of the Visual Studio for Mac IDE, with end of support starting 31 August, 2024. Find the announcement and some suggested alternatives to using Visual Studio for Mac here: https://bit.ly/3Z4kdbe.
Tag Archives: Visual Studio
Resources for Visual Studio administrators
Visual Studio administrators assign Visual Studio subscriptions to users so that they can take advantage of all the benefits associated with a subscription. There’s a handy guide for administrators with lots of links to useful training and documentation resources which you can find here: https://bit.ly/3wzq6OA.
Visual Studio Licensing Guide
We found an updated (August 2020) Licensing Guide.
There aren’t major changes from the previous release, with just the version being removed from Azure DevOps Server so that the information applies to all versions, including the recently released Azure DevOps Server 2020.
Find this guide here: https://bit.ly/2G40ep0.
Visual Studio Licensing Guide
We found a March 2020 update to the Visual Studio Licensing Guide. There aren’t any major changes, but if you always like to have the latest version to hand, then you can find it here: https://bit.ly/2EQ9SdQ.
Visual Studio subscriptions with GitHub Enterprise
Microsoft announce that EA customers can now purchase a Visual Studio subscription with GitHub Enterprise for a combined, lower price.
Find the announcement here: http://bit.ly/2X5k9ac and find out more about GitHub Enterprise here: http://bit.ly/2KdnuRd.
Visual Studio 2019
Microsoft announce the General Availability of Visual Studio 2019 with the usual editions available to download: Community (free), and Professional and Enterprise for users with the relevant standard or monthly cloud subscription. Find the announcement here: http://bit.ly/2OGNLHI.
Visual Studio 2019 for Mac is also available, in the same editions. licensed by the same subscriptions. Find that announcement here: http://bit.ly/2HWCa6R.
General Availability of Azure DevOps Server
Microsoft announce the General Availability of Azure DevOps Server; this is the latest version of the product you may know better by its previous name of Visual Studio Team Foundation Server.
There are no changes to the licensing of this new version and you can buy Server and CAL licences through a Volume Licensing agreement.
Alternatively, Visual Studio standard subscriptions include rights to the Server licence and one User CAL, and all users licensed for Azure DevOps Services have CAL rights too.
You can find the announcement here: http://bit.ly/2FgTv7U, along with confirmation that Azure SQL Database can now be used with Azure DevOps Server in an Azure virtual machine.
Visual Studio Licensing Guide
The Visual Studio Licensing Guide has some updates, mainly for the name changes of Visual Studio Online Services to Azure DevOps, and Microsoft BizSpark to Microsoft for Startups.
As usual, find this guide here: http://bit.ly/MSLicensingGuides.
Visual Studio Subscriptions
Visual Studio subscriptions provide access to developer tools, as well as cloud services and software to support all types of dev projects. Microsoft have sold Standard subscriptions through Volume Licensing agreements and annual or monthly Cloud subscriptions through the Visual Studio Marketplace. Note that annual Cloud subscriptions are no longer available, but that existing customers can continue to renew, increase, decrease, or cancel their subscriptions.
The Cloud subscriptions page is here: http://bit.ly/2HrksJj.
Visual Studio Team Services
Microsoft announce that Visual Studio Team Services becomes Azure DevOps. You’ll find the announcement here: http://bit.ly/2MXDFzu, and there’s a useful billing FAQ here: http://bit.ly/2I5CpcN.