Visual Studio Dev Essentials announced at Connect() with free Azure time each month

author Richard Fennell calendar Nov 23, 2015 · 1 min read · Uncategorised  ·
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One announcement I missed at at Connect() last week was that of Visual Studio Dev Essentials. I only heard about this one whilst listening to RadioTFS’s news from Connect() programme.

Visual Studio Dev Essentials is mostly a re-packing of all the tools that were already freely available from Microsoft e.g. Visual Studio Community Edition, Tem Foundation Server Express etc.; but there are some notable additions* (some coming soon)

  • Pluralsight  (6-month subscription)—limited time only
  • Xamarin University mobile training— coming soon
  • WintellectNOW  (3-month subscription)
  • Microsoft Virtual Academy
  • HackHands Live Programming Help  ($25 credit)
  • Priority Forum Support
  • Azure credit  ($25/month for 12 months)—coming soon
  • Visual Studio Team Services account with five users
  • App Service free tier
  • PowerBI free tier
  • HockeyApp free tier
  • Application Insights free tier

*Check the Visual Studio Dev Essentials site for the detailed T&C

So if you, or a student/hobbyist you know, need great development tools sign up at Visual Studio Dev Essentials