Standalone license

Visual Studio is the best IDE for .NET development. Usually, when starting developing in .NET, most developers choose the free Community edition. This edition is very much similar to the Professional edition and is sufficient for maintaining the migrated application.
However, the Community edition has some limitations in features as well as in its license-terms. It is more suitable for small organization of up to 5 developers. You can read the full license terms here. https://www.visualstudio.com/license-terms/mlt553321/

For small development teams that want a little extra features, it is recommended to purchase a standalone license for the Professional edition. At the time of writing this it is priced at 499$. You can get it here: https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/pricing/. Make sure you pick the standalone license:

You can compare Visual Studio editions here: https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/compare/

Becoming Microsoft Partner

If you are a software house, we recommend to become a Microsoft partner. Microsoft has a plan for companies of all sizes. We use this plan and get 5 full MSDN accounts which allows us to download any Microsoft product, including the expensive Visual Studio Enterprise edition fully licensed. There are other benefits for partners, such as training and support. The price for this partnership is very cheap for what you get. Currently, it's a few hundreds of dollars a year. To become a Microsoft partner go to this page: https://partner.microsoft.com/en-us/membership/how-it-works

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