I am more familiar with Visual studio over VS code and I was wondering with my work PC if I could test some VSTO projects as to see if worth migrating our VBA projects to something modern. I was thinking for the testing to use the community edition. Would that be allowed?

Hi @Jonathan Brotto , Welcome to Microsoft Q&A! From looking at the Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2022 Licensing : If you are an individual developer, you can use the Community edition to develop and test your own applications. If you are in an organization, there are some limitations to using VS Community edition. You can check out the document above for more details. You can view the document to learn more about Office development in Visual Studio. Sincerely, Anna If the answer is the right solution, please click " Accept Answer " and kindly upvote it. If you have extra questions about this answer, please click "Comment". Note: Please follow the steps in our <a href="https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fanswers%2Farticles%2F67444%2Femail-notifications.html&data=05%7C01%7Cv-anxiu%40microsoft.com%7Cfbafa63a6d244bc7b02308dab02dffeb%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C638016009146709048%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=fQwgaRxLofINtfGCjYbP6ygI0lVyksSFgHo7VnshDEY%3D&reserved=0" rel="ugc nofollow">documentation to enable e-mail notifications if you want to receive the related email notification for this thread.

Use of visual studio community edition for testing VSTO projects?

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Anna Xiu-MSFT 26,651 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2024-05-15T03:35:18.0233333+00:00

Hi @Jonathan Brotto ,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A!

From looking at the Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2022 Licensing:

If you are an individual developer, you can use the Community edition to develop and test your own applications.

If you are in an organization, there are some limitations to using VS Community edition. You can check out the document above for more details.

You can view the document to learn more about Office development in Visual Studio.

Sincerely,

Anna

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Jonathan Brotto 80 Reputation points

2024-05-15T12:42:27.71+00:00

@Anna Xiu-MSFT It would be acceptable for Microsoft as user within a corporation that exceeds 1M in revenue and over 250 computer users to test/demo visual studio with the community edition as long as I do not deploy a solution company wide or use in production?

Jonathan Brotto 80 Reputation points

2024-05-15T12:48:11.6333333+00:00

@Anna Xiu-MSFT would it be acceptable for Microsoft as a end user who is testing visual studio to use the community edition even if the organization is 1m in revenue and over 250 computer users as long it is to demo solutions in non production?

RLWA32 41,206 Reputation points

2024-05-15T16:29:51.15+00:00

@Jonathan Brotto, With respect to organizations that are defined as an "enterprise" in the VS2022 Community Edition EULA it states, "If you are an enterprise, your employees and contractors may not use the software to develop or test your applications, except for: (i) open source; (ii) Visual Studio extensions; (iii) device drivers for the Windows operating system; (iv) SQL Server development; and, (v) education purposes as permitted above." Any use of the Community edition beyond those stated exceptions would be prohibited by the license.

An enterprise could consider using the VS2022 Trial Edition which allows for internal evaluation in non-production environments during the Trial Period. Refer to https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/license-terms/vs2022-ga-proenterprise/
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