I’m a bit confused by this one, I didn’t even realize they still sold individual licenses for this app. This program is largely a monthly subscription application as it includes Azure Cloud storage and other tools at around $45 a month for Pro.
If you don’t need the Azure stuff (remember you can use Azure free up to a certain point), then Visual Studio Community has basically all the same features as Professional.
But yeah, this one is confusing to me. So looking into it, I did find Microsoft selling it for $499 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/visual-studio-professional-2022/dg7gmgf0d3sj?msockid=32c054ef7c7d67c932f940477d8d668c&activetab=pivot:overviewtab
I also found another place selling it for $35. So I guess, overall, this is indeed a good deal if you need the Azure side of it (I… assume… it comes with that still, even without being licensed monthly?). You can save $430, or even $13 from the other place.
There’s a few other very minor, cheesy things that are paywall blocked. Namely the ability to see execution time directly on the interface. You can script that in easily, and often will in order to see breakdown of specific blocks. But for $19.80 after the 20% coupon I’ll just pay for that convenience.
True enough.
The other main limitation with VS Community has to do with corporate use. The Community license allows individual users to use Community for commercial (paid) purposes, but enterprises (larger businesses) cannot use it for any production purposes – only testing or prototyping. Small businesses can use no more than 5 licenses for production. However businesses aren’t typically buying these cheap, usually “gray market”, licenses from sellers like Woot anyway.