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Visual Studio cloud subscription & benefits!!

Visual Studio cloud subscription:Gain the flexibility to choose the duration of your Visual Studio IDE license, plus access to comprehensive benefits when you select an annual commitment. Visual Studio subscriptions are available through the Visual Studio Marketplace.

The following benefits are available depending on the subscription you choose.

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Visual Studio Professional with MSDN 
and Visual Studio Professional – annual

Visual Studio Enterprise with MSDN 
and Visual Studio Enterprise – annual

Visual Studio Test Professional with MSDN

MSDN Platforms

Visual Studio Dev Essentials

Free for all developers 1

Tools

       

Visual Studio edition 2

Professional

Enterprise

Test Professional

 

Xamarin Studio 3

 yes  yes    

Xamarin Test Cloud discount 4

   yes    

Team Foundation Server license

 yes  yes  yes  yes

Team Foundation Server user CAL

 yes  yes  yes  yes

Can be added to unlimited number of Visual Studio Team Services accounts for free

 yes  yes  yes  yes

Additional Visual Studio Team Services extensions: Test Manager

   yes  yes  yes

Microsoft Azure monthly credit for dev/test 5

$50 month

$150 month

$50 month

$100 month

Microsoft Azure pay-as-you-go dev/test subscriptions 5

 yes  yes  yes  yes

Windows developer account

 yes  yes  yes  

Office 365 Developer Subscription

   yes    

Power BI Pro

   yes    yes

eDevTech SmartOffice4TFS and inteGREAT4TFS 6

   yes    

Software for development and test

       

Windows & Windows Server

 yes  yes  yes  yes

Windows Embedded

 yes  yes  yes  yes

SQL Server

       

SharePoint

   yes    yes

Exchange

   yes    yes

Dynamics

   yes    yes

All other servers

   yes    yes

Office Professional Plus (dev/test & production use)

   yes    

Education

       

Pluralsight training 7

30 courses

45 courses

30 courses

45 courses

Xamarin University On-Demand 8

 yes  yes    

Microsoft E-Learning course collections (per year)

1

2

1

1

Support

       

Technical support incidents

2

4

2

2

Priority support in select MSDN forums

 yes  yes  yes  yes

Priority support in select TechNet forums

       yes

Online Chat 9

 yes  yes  yes yes