Products developed by using VS from MSDN subscription? Ĥ. It said, it is illegal to use MSDN subscription on Production environment and MSDN subscription is only meant for develop, test and demo.

I found 'Production Environment' term in one of the MSDN subscription Q & A. If I buy *Retail*, how long the license will last? Do I need to renew the license every year in order to use VS?ģ.

Retail package is ok for us or MSDN subscription is better for us? (We don't need other list like SQL Server 2008, Win Server 2008, Robotic SDK, smartcard ,etc. So, we also need to install VS in these laptops too).Ĭan anyone give me suggestions on my below questions?ġ. We will have 1 desktop PC and 2 laptops for one developer only (because of business trip, we use laptops. I also checked MSDN subscription and found that *VS Professional Subscription* is quiet Ok for us. I checked Microsoft web site and it seems I can't buy from it except VS2010.Īnd when I google, I found some sites (including Amazon) selling VS 2008 in *Retail* package.

Currently, we are planning to buy Visual Studio 2008 (the main reason is Win CE 5.0/Win Mobile 6 application development).

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