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I have been using VS2010 Pro from DreamSpark. I will shortly be joining a commercial organisation who will not be providing me with a VS license and as such I will need to purchase my own.
Is Visual Studio licensed per user, per machine, or per-user per-machine? I.e. if I buy one license am I able to exclusively use it on both my laptop and desktop?
Thanks
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The user can install and use the Visual Studio client software on as many devices as they like. However, the products are licensed on a per-user basis—that is, only the licensed user can use the software.
Visual Studio software is not licensed for production environments. Visual Studio with MSDN are licensed on a per- user basis. Each development team member that will interact (install, configure, or access) with the software included with these products requires their own Visual Studio subscription.
If your subscription was purchased through Microsoft Volume Licensing and you need to reassign it to someone else within the organization, your admin can help you. Retail subscriptions can be transferred to another user by contacting Customer Service.
As a general rule, any person using or accessing software installed via Visual Studio must have a license and it must be of the appropriate type – i.e. a user licensed with Professional cannot access features that are only available with the Enterprise edition.
Visual Studio is licensed per user. You can have one installation on your laptop and another on your desktop as long as they are both used by you only (or any other user has a license). Here's Microsoft's whitepaper on licensing.
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