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Can I use Community Editions for Professional Development
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ASP.NET
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Visual Studio
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Can I use Community Editions for Professional Development
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Hi,

I've been doing some research into upgrading my Visual Studio 2010 version. I am an independent developer but sell my services as a limited liability company (the company's only employee is me). I generally develop unique applications for clients to use within their own business meeting their own unique business needs but I also have an application that I sell "off the shelf". Is the Community Edition of VS 2015 suitable for my situation?

From my research so far I believe it is but just want to ensure I am understanding the documentation properly.

This is the relevant text from the Licensing documentation (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=13350):

"Individual developers
Any individual developer can use Visual Studio Community, to create their own free or paid apps.
Organizations
 An unlimited number of users within an organization can use Visual Studio Community for the following scenarios:
in a classroom learning environment, for academic research, or for contributing to open source projects.
 For all other usage scenarios: In non-enterprise organizations up to 5 users can use Visual Studio Community. In
enterprise organizations (meaning those with >250 PCs or > $1M in annual revenue) no use is permitted for
employees as well as contractors beyond the open source, academic research and classroom learning environment
scenarios described above. "
Frank.

Frank Cazabon
Samaan Systems Ltd.
www.samaansystems.com
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