{"id":2262,"date":"2014-08-20T19:14:32","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T07:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/?p=2262"},"modified":"2014-08-20T19:14:32","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T07:14:32","slug":"visual-studio-pro-for-just-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/2262\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Studio Pro for Just $45 !!"},"content":{"rendered":"[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes]<\/span><\/span>

It’s true. Visual Studio Professional<\/strong> can be had for as little as $45, though it can take a little digging to find this option. And there is a catch (or two).<\/p>\n

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It’s available at this price through Visual Studio Online. And the first catch is… it’s a subscription<\/strong>. That $45 is going to have to be paid every month in order to maintain your license.<\/p>\n

But that’s less than $550 per annum for Visual Studio Pro<\/strong>, with no extortionate up-front cost, unlike certain other IDE’s that could be mentioned, and<\/em> you can get your first month on a free trial basis. Plus of course, it’s part of Visual Studio Online<\/strong>, so it comes with a host of other benefits and features, should you want or need them.<\/p>\n

In fact, I suspect that many people think that Visual Studio Online<\/strong> is only<\/strong> those “other benefits”, comprising essentially Team Foundation Server<\/strong> based ALC services for up to 5 users<\/a> (plus twiddly bits like some cloud storage). The ability to obtain Visual Studio Professional<\/strong> licenses through this channel is curiously hard to find (here’s a link to save you the trouble of looking<\/a>), and what isn’t immediately apparent is catch #2…. it involves also having an Azure<\/strong> subscription.<\/p>\n

As far as I can tell however (and I hope this is the case since this is the situation I shall be in when my free trial period expires), this does apply to the Pay As You Go<\/em> Azure plans, so if you’re not consuming any cost bearing Azure<\/strong> services, then a Visual Studio Pro<\/strong> subscription will be all that you are paying for. As something of a plus side to this, your subscription is then also managed through the Azure Management Console<\/strong>, along with all your other Azure<\/strong> services.<\/p>\n

As it happens, I was interested in exploring some Azure<\/strong> services so this was no issue for me, whether I end up paying for some other Azure<\/strong> services as well or not.<\/p>\n

Why would I want Visual Studio Pro<\/strong> when I already have Delphi<\/strong> (albeit XE4) and indeed RemObjects Elements<\/strong>. Particularly since RemObjects Elements<\/strong> comes with Visual Studio Shell<\/strong>. I already have<\/em> Visual Studio<\/strong>, right ?<\/p>\n

Not quite.<\/p>\n

Although Visual Studio Shell<\/strong> is indeed<\/em> a complete Visual Studio<\/strong> IDE, certain MS SDK’s will not install their support into it. If you have VS Pro<\/strong>, then they will<\/em> install into that. Otherwise they will often install a copy of Visual Studio Express<\/strong>, of the appropriate edition.<\/p>\n

With RemObjects Elements<\/strong> on top, you pretty soon end up with a plethora of Visual Studio<\/strong> environments. Messy to say the least.<\/p>\n

With Visual Studio Professional<\/strong>, RemObjects Elements<\/strong> and whichever Microsoft SDK<\/strong>‘s you care to tilt your hat to will all install into the one IDE !<\/p>\n

Opting for a Visual Studio Pro subscription is therefore a pretty cost effective way of consolidating all of those IDE’s into one, reclaiming some disk space and not a small modicum of sanity into the bargain!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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