microsoft visual studio 2017 free download express edition

Companies over $1 million in annual revenue or more than 250 PCs/Users will need a paid version of Visual Studio.

If your company is less than 250 PCs or Users, or less than $1 million in annual revenue, then up to 5 developers can use the Community edition to develop and test.

Companies can use the community edition for Open Source Initiative, educational, or VS Extensions.

Individuals can use the Community edition to develop and test just about any application ('to sell or for any other purpose').

I looked here at the 2017 license and the way I understand this is: I have 7 guys ( including me ) who basically use the IDE to make console applications and web applications, let's take a hypothetical case where 4 employees installed Visual Studio Express ( I just finished purchasing Visual Studio Professional for each one of them so this is no longer a problem for me) and the remaining 3 have Visual Studio Professional licenses, am I committing an kind of licensing infraction by using the express edition, I ask this, because of that's what one of the Microsoft Partner here said, they said, 'You may not use Visual Studio Express for any kind of development activity that gets you paid'. The license is basically saying you cannot install it on something like terminal server or RDS and have multiple developers use the same machine and the same Visual Studio installation. And if you have multiple developers, each one can download and install their own copy. Does this mean a company with more than one user can't install it ?.ĭo you have more than 1 developer? The developer is the user of the Visual Studio software, not the rest of your employees.

Microsoft visual studio 2017 free download express edition