Microsoft Visual Studio Pricing

“A subscription is relatively costly, so maybe cost-prohibitive for a small shop.”

“Negative: It can be expensive, as the licensing is per-developer, so as your tech team grows, so does your licensing cost.”

“I manage the license allocation while our sys admins manage actual provisioning via the microsoft license management portals - the developers are able to install and customize the IDE to their hearts...”

“Visual Studio Enterprise can be quite expensive so only purchase the Enterprise e-version for your most experienced developers.”

“The size is very large and it takes a long time to install It is expensive for pro, although the community edition is free Sometimes the project format changes and this forces multiple solution files...”

“Microsoft services are known to be quite expensive, so understand your budget and understand the benefits of having a Microsoft Suite.”

“There are competitive products available but between the free Community Edition's zero cost to try and adopt to the feature set of the paid editions, plus the fact that it's the tool Microsoft uses... … Since Microsoft offers a free Community Edition of the IDE many of our new developers have used it at home or school and are very familiar with the user interface, requiring little training to move...”

“We receive Visual Studio as part of our MSDN subscription with Microsoft (which we need for other business reasons as well), so the price is right.”

“This makes it easier for college students to get familiar with the Visual Studio IDE for free and then later makes it easier to transition over to the Professional or Enterprise Editions when they...”

“The enterprise edition is a little expensive.”

“Also, it has many options from commercial [license] to free usage, which is a big plus for educational introduction.”