| Visual Studio Professional | Visual Studio Enterprise | ||
| Visual Studio IDE | Newest version for PC & Mac -2019 | ✔ | ✔ |
| Earlier versions for PC | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS) (access to features on any Azure DevOps organization) |
Basic features | ✔ | ✔ |
| Test Plans | ✖ | ✔ | |
| Artifacts | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Self-hosted pipelines | ✖ | ✔ | |
| Azure DevOps Server / Team Foundation Server | Server license | ✔ | ✔ |
| User client access license (CAL) | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Test Plans | ✖ | ✔ | |
| Artifacts | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Self-hosted pipelines | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Cloud Services | Experiment and learn using Microsoft Azure | ✔ | ✔ |
| Azure dev/test pricing | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Windows Virtual Desktop | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Visual Studio App Center | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Microsoft 365 Developer subcription (admin + 24 users) |
✔ | ✔ | |
| Power BI Pro | ✖ | ✔ | |
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Windows Store developer account
(for publishing apps) |
✔
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✔ | |
| Enterprise Mobility + Security | ✖ | ✔ | |
| Software for dev/test | Microsoft Office Professional Plus, Project, Visio | ✖ |
✔
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Windows, Windows Server, Windows Embedded, Microsoft SQL Server, R Server
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✔
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✔ | |
| Sharepoint, Exchange, Dynamics & other Microsoft server software | ✖ | ✔ | |
| Software for production use | Office 365 Pro Plus | ✖ | ✔ |
| Office Professional Plus 2019 | ✖ | ✔ | |
| Training & Education |
LinkedIn Learning
|
Full subcription for 3 months
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Full subcription for 6 months
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| Plurasight training | Full subcription for 3 months | Full subcription for 6 months | |
| DataCamp | Full subcription for 3 months | Full subcription for 3 months | |
|
CODE Magazine
(print or digital access) |
✔
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✔
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| Support | Technical Support | 2 incidents | 4 incidents |
| Developer Community |
✔
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✔
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Priority support in select TechNet Forums
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✖ | ✖ | |
| Online Chat |
✔
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✔
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| Visual Studio partner offers | CAST Highlight | Assess 1 app for three months | Assess 5 app for three months |
| CloudPilot | 1 license for 30 days | 2 license for 90 days | |
| Parasoft - Virtualize/SOAtest Professional Desktop | ✖ | Full subscription for 6 months | |
| WhiteSource - Azure DevOps Server / Azure DevOps Bolt extension | ✖ | 6 months unlimited scans | |