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MICROSOFT SOFTWARE LICENSE TERMS

MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO COMMUNITY 2026

Last Updated: October 1, 2025.

These license terms are an agreement between you and Microsoft Corporation (or based on where you live, one of its affiliates). They apply to the software named above. The terms also apply to any Microsoft services or updates for the software, except to the extent those have additional terms.  

Unless otherwise stated, these license terms remain in effect for this version of Visual Studio and any updates or revisions released. Microsoft may update or modify these license terms at any time. It is your responsibility to regularly review the license terms and any related announcements. The most current version of the license terms will always be available at https://aka.ms/VisualStudioLicenses. By continuing to use the software after changes are posted, you agree to the updated terms. 

IF YOU COMPLY WITH THESE LICENSE TERMS, YOU HAVE THE RIGHTS BELOW. 

OVERVIEW 

Software. The software includes developmental tools, applications, and documentation. 

License Model. The software is licensed on a per user basis. 

INSTALLATION AND USE RIGHTS.

General. Subject to (b) and (c) below, one or more users may install and use copies of the software on your devices to develop and test applications. This includes using copies of the software on your own internal servers that remain fully dedicated to your own use. You may not, however, separate the components of the software (except as otherwise stated in these license terms) and run those in a production environment, or on third party devices, or for any purpose other than developing and testing your applications. Running the software on Microsoft Azure may require separate usage fees.

Individual License. If you are an individual working on your own applications, either to sell or for any other purpose, you may use the software to develop and test those applications.

Organizational License. If you are an organization, your users may use the software as follows:

Any number of your users may use the software to develop and test: 

applications released under Open Source Initiative (OSI) approved open source software licenses;

extensions to Visual Studio; 

device drivers for the Windows operating system;

your applications as part of online or in person classroom training and education, or for performing academic research; and

Microsoft SQL Server database projects or Analysis Services, Reporting Services, Power BI Report Server, or Integration Services projects when using the SQL Server Data Tools or the extensions “Microsoft Analysis Services Projects”, “Microsoft Reporting Services Projects”, or “SQL Server Integration Services Projects”.

If none of (i) through (v) above apply, and you are also not an enterprise (defined below), then up to 5 of your individual users can use the software concurrently to develop and test your applications.

Enterprise use. 

An “enterprise” is any organization and its affiliates who collectively have either (a) more than 250 PCs or users or (b) one million U.S. dollars (or the equivalent in other currencies) in annual revenues, and “affiliates” means those entities that control (via majority ownership), are controlled by, or are under common control with an organization.

If you are an enterprise, your employees and contractors may not use the software to develop or test your applications, except for the uses listed in Section 2(c) above. 

Workloads. These license terms apply to your use of the workloads made available to you within the software, except to the extent a workload, or a workload component comes with different license terms and support policies.

Backup Copy. You may make one backup copy of the software, for reinstalling the software.

Demo Use. The uses permitted above include use of the software to demonstrate your applications.

INSIDERS, PREVIEWS, AND PRE-RELEASE SOFTWARE. Microsoft may make the software available to you through the Insiders Channel (“Insiders Channel Software”) or may make available to you pre-release or preview features or components (“Preview Features”) through the Stable Channel. Insiders Channel Software and Preview Features (collectively, “Previews”), the Insiders Channel, and Stable Channel are further described at https://aka.ms/vs/18/channels-overview. 

You may use any number of copies of Insiders Channel Software only for internal evaluation purposes. 

Preview Features may be used consistent with your use rights to the software. 

Previews are experimental and may be substantially different from the commercially released version. They may not operate correctly or work the way a final version will. Microsoft may change Previews for the final, commercial version, if any. 

Microsoft is not obligated to provide maintenance, technical support or updates to you for Previews. 

Any separate components, such as frameworks, runtimes, or compilers, that are marked as “insiders”, “preview”, “pre-release”, or “beta” (collectively, “Unreleased Components”) included with Previews are solely for internal evaluation purposes. You may not distribute or deploy into production software that depends on them. Unreleased Components may be subject to separate terms.

FEEDBACK. If you give feedback, suggestions, or recommendations (collectively, “Feedback”) about the software to Microsoft, you give to Microsoft, without charge, the right to use, share, and commercialize your Feedback in any way and for any purpose. You will not give Feedback that is a third party’s confidential information or subject to a license that requires Microsoft to license its software or documentation to third parties because we include your Feedback in them. These rights survive this agreement.

TIME-SENSITIVE SOFTWARE. The software is time-sensitive and will stop running on the date that is defined in the software. Your license right to use the software also ends on that date. You may not be able to access copies of your code or other data stored in the software when it stops running. You must update the software to a new version to continue using it.

ONLINE SERVICES IN THE SOFTWARE. Some features of the software make use of online services to provide you information about updates to the software or extensions, or to enable you to retrieve content, collaborate with others, or otherwise supplement your development experience. As used throughout these license terms, the term “software” includes these online service features, and by using them, you consent to the transmission of information as described in Section 10, DATA.

GitHub Copilot. The software enables you to interact with the GitHub Copilot service (“Copilot”) offered by GitHub, Inc. (“GitHub”). You must separately obtain access to Copilot to use this functionality, and your use of Copilot is pursuant to the separate agreement(s) between you and GitHub, including any of its data collection provisions.

TERMS FOR SPECIFIC COMPONENTS.

Separation of Components; Workloads. Except as otherwise stated in these license terms, (i) the components of the software are licensed as a single unit, and (ii) you may not separate the components and install them on different devices. These license terms apply to your use of the workloads made available within the software, except to the extent that a workload or a workload component comes with different terms.

Utilities. The software contains items on the Utilities List at https://aka.ms/vs/18/utilities (“Utilities”). You may copy and install those items onto your devices to debug and deploy your applications and databases you developed with the software. The Utilities are designed for temporary use. Microsoft may not be able to patch or update Utilities separately from the rest of the software. Some Utilities by their nature may make it possible for others to access the devices on which the Utilities are installed. You should delete all Utilities you have installed after you finish debugging or deploying your applications and databases. Microsoft is not responsible for any third party use or access of devices, or of the applications or databases on devices, on which Utilities have been installed.

Build Devices and Visual Studio Build Tools. You may copy and install files from the software or from Visual Studio Build Tools onto your build devices, including physical devices and virtual machines or containers on those devices, whether on-premises or remote machines that are (i) owned by you, (ii) hosted on Microsoft Azure for you, or (iii) under the day-to-day management and control of an Authorized Outsourcer (as defined below) and dedicated solely to your use (collectively, “Build Devices”). You and others in your organization may use these files on your Build Devices solely to compile, build, and verify applications developed by using the software, or run quality or performance tests of those applications as part of the build process. 

“Authorized Outsourcer” means any third party service provider that is not a Listed Provider and is not using Listed Provider as a Data Center Provider as part of the outsourcing service.

“Listed Providers” include entities identified by Microsoft at http://aka.ms/listedproviders. Microsoft may identify additional Listed Providers at http://aka.ms/listedproviders from time to time; however, if you are using an outsourcer at the time its Authorized Outsourcer status is terminated, then you may temporarily continue to use the same entity in its former Authorized Outsourcer capacity for one year from the date of that change in status.

“Data Center Provider” means an entity that provides infrastructure or software services, directly or indirectly, to another service provider. Microsoft may also serve as a Data Center Provider through Microsoft Azure.

Code Inspection. This software includes functionality that enables you to inspect binary code and reproduce source code from original binary code. Use of these features of the software is entirely optional. By using this functionality, you acknowledge that the binary code and source code may be protected by copyright and trademark laws. You also agree not to violate any applicable copyright and trademark laws or license agreements and represent that you will have obtained permission or otherwise be permitted to inspect binary code and reproduce source code if you use this functionality. Microsoft is not responsible for any uses by you in violation of applicable laws or license agreements.

Fonts. While the software is running, you may use its fonts to display and print content. You may only (i) embed fonts in content as permitted by the embedding restrictions in the fonts; and (ii) temporarily download them to a printer or other output device to print content.

IntelliSense Service. This service provides a base model trained on publicly available open source code that enables you to receive AI-assisted IntelliSense suggestions. You may only use the base model, in whole or in part, with the software. AI-assisted IntelliSense analyzes your application locally to generate a summary file with metadata on the types and their usage across your application which illustrate your patterns of usage. The summary file contains information about the names of classes, methods, and how often they are used in your application (“Your Data”). You retain ownership of all aspects of Your Data, including, but not limited to, all right, title and interest in and to the underlying application code.

Licenses for Other Components. 

Microsoft Platforms. The software may include components from Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Office, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Visual C++, or other Microsoft software. These components are governed by separate agreements and their own product support policies, as described in the Microsoft “Licenses” folder accompanying the software, or at https://aka.ms/vs/18/AdditionalLicenses, except that, if license terms for those components are also included in the associated installation directly, those license terms control. 

Third Party or Open Source Components. The software may include third party or open source components with separate legal notices or governed by other agreements, as may be described in the notices file(s) accompanying the software.

Package Managers. The software includes package managers, like NuGet and vcpkg, that give you the option to download other Microsoft and third party software packages to use with your applications. Those packages are under their own licenses, and not these license terms. Microsoft does not distribute, license or provide any warranties for any of the third party packages.

DISTRIBUTABLE CODE. The software contains code that you may distribute in applications you develop as described in this Section. For purposes of this Section, the term “distribution” also means deployment of your applications for third parties to access over the Internet.

Right to Use and Distribute. The code and text files listed in (i) and (ii) below are “Distributable Code”.

Distributable List. You may copy and distribute the object code form of code listed on the Distributable List located at https://aka.ms/vs/18/redistribution. 

Sample Code, Templates, and Styles. You may copy, modify and distribute the source and object code form of code marked as “sample”, “template”, “simple styles” and “sketch styles”.

Third Party Distribution. You may permit distributors of your applications to copy and distribute the Distributable Code as part of those applications.

Distribution Requirements. For any Distributable Code you distribute, you must:

add significant primary functionality to it in your applications; 

require distributors and external end users to agree to terms that protect the Distributable Code at least as much as these license terms; and

indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Microsoft from any claims, including attorneys’ fees, related to the distribution or use of your applications, except to the extent that any claim is based solely on the Distributable Code.

Distribution Restrictions. You may not:

distribute Unreleased Components;

distribute software developed with Insiders Channel Software or that depends on Unreleased Components; 

use Microsoft’s trademarks in your applications’ names or in a way that suggests your applications come from or are endorsed by Microsoft; or

modify or distribute the source code of any Distributable Code so that any part of it becomes subject to an Excluded License. An “Excluded License” is one that requires, as a condition of use, modification or distribution of code, that (i) it be disclosed or distributed in source code form; or (ii) others have the right to modify it.

DEVELOPING EXTENSIONS.

Limits on Extensions. You may not develop or enable others to develop extensions for the software (or any other component of the Visual Studio family of products) which circumvent the technical limitations implemented in the software. If Microsoft technically limits or disables extensibility for the software, you may not extend the software by, among other things, loading or injecting into the software any non-Microsoft add-ins, macros, or packages; modifying the software registry settings; or adding features or functionality equivalent to that found in the Visual Studio family of products.

No Degrading the Software. If you develop an extension for the software (or any other component of the Visual Studio family of products), you must test the installation, uninstallation, and operation of your extension to ensure that such processes do not disable any features or adversely affect the functionality of the software (or such component) or of any previous version or edition thereof.

DATA. 

Data Collection. The software may collect information about you and your use of the software, and send that information to Microsoft (“Usage Data”). Microsoft may use this information to provide services and improve our products and services. You may opt-out of many of these scenarios, but not all, as described in the software documentation. There are also some features in the software that may enable you and Microsoft to collect data from users of your applications. If you use these features, you must comply with applicable law, including providing appropriate notices to users of your applications together with a copy of Microsoft’s privacy statement. Our privacy statement is located at https://aka.ms/privacy. You can learn more about data collection and its use from the software documentation and our privacy statement. Your use of the software operates as your consent to these practices.

Processing of Personal Data. To the extent Microsoft is a processor or subprocessor of personal data in connection with the software, Microsoft makes the commitments in the European Union General Data Protection Regulation Terms of the Microsoft Products and Services Data Protection Addendum to all customers effective May 25, 2018, at https://docs.microsoft.com/legal/gdpr.

Data Sharing with GitHub. If you give Feedback about the software to Microsoft, and Microsoft determines that your feedback directly relates to Copilot, Microsoft may, without charge, share the Feedback and Usage Data with GitHub, and you give to GitHub (i) the right to use, share, and commercialize your Feedback in any way and for any purpose, and (ii) the right to use Usage Data for the purpose of improving GitHub offerings.

SCOPE OF LICENSE. The software is licensed, not sold. These license terms only give you some rights to use the software. Microsoft reserves all other rights. Unless applicable law gives you more rights despite this limitation, you may use the software only as expressly permitted in these license terms. In doing so, you must comply with any technical limitations in the software that only allow you to use it in certain ways. In addition, you may not:

work around any technical limitations in the software;

reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the software, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code for the software, except and to the extent required by third party licensing terms governing use of certain open-source components that may be included with the software;

remove, minimize, block or modify any notices of Microsoft or its suppliers in the software;

use the software in any way that is against the law; 

share, publish, rent or lease the software; or 

provide the software as a stand-alone offering or combine it with any of your applications for others to use, or transfer the software or these license terms to any third party.

SUPPORT. Because the software is “as is”, we may not provide support services for it.

ENTIRE AGREEMENT. These license terms, and the terms for supplements, updates, Internet-based services and support services, are the entire agreement for the software and support services.

COMPLIANCE WITH TRADE LAWS. Microsoft products, software, technology, and services (“Items”) may be subject to U.S. and other countries’ export jurisdictions. Each party will comply with all laws and regulations applicable to the import or export of the Items, including, without limitation, trade laws of the U.S., EU, and UK, such as the U.S. Export Administration Regulations, sanctions regulations administered by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control, the EU Dual Use Regulation 2021/821, and/or other end-user, end use, and destination restrictions (“Trade Laws”) as well as the global legal compliance standards detailed in the Microsoft Standards of Business Conduct. You will not, and will ensure your Affiliates will not, take any action that causes Microsoft to violate applicable Trade Laws. Microsoft may suspend or terminate this agreement immediately without notice to the extent that Microsoft reasonably believes that performance would cause it to violate Trade Laws or put it at risk of becoming subject to sanctions and penalties under such laws. You remain responsible for its and for your Affiliates’ compliance with this section. For additional information, see www.microsoft.com/exporting.

You must ensure that you, any of your directors or officers, or to the best of your knowledge, your employees or agents, Affiliates, or Affiliates’ directors, officers, employees, or agents are not sanctioned persons designated under applicable Trade Laws.

You shall provide Microsoft with prompt written notice if you or any of your Affiliates receive notice from any government agency of any investigation, inquiry, or proceeding for any actual or alleged noncompliance of or with any Trade Laws related to activities subject to this Agreement.

You shall comply with global use restrictions in Microsoft’s product or service terms relevant to this agreement, as updated from time to time.

You shall not make available Microsoft Items to any entity or individual designated on any export or sanctions restriction lists under Trade Laws, in each case, without specific government authorization required by Trade Laws.

For the purposes of this Section 8, “Affiliate” means any legal entity that directly or indirectly owns, is owned by, or is commonly owned with the applicable party. “Own” means having more than 50% ownership or the right to direct the management of the entity.

APPLICABLE LAW. If you acquired the software in the United States, Washington state law applies to interpretation of, and claims for breach of these license terms, and the laws of the state where you live apply to all other claims. If you acquired the software in any other country, its laws apply.

CONSUMER RIGHTS; REGIONAL VARIATIONS. These license terms describe certain legal rights. You may have other rights, including consumer rights, under the laws of your state or country. Separate and apart from your relationship with Microsoft, you may also have rights with respect to the party from which you acquired the software. These license terms do not change those other rights if the laws of your state or country do not permit it to do so. For example, if you acquired the software in one of the below regions, or if mandatory country law applies, then the following provisions apply to you:

Australia. You have statutory guarantees under the Australian Consumer Law and nothing in these license terms is intended to affect those rights.

Canada. You may stop receiving updates on your device by turning off Internet access. If and when you re-connect to the Internet, the software will resume checking for and installing updates. The product documentation, if any, may also specify how to turn off updates for your specific device or software.

Germany and Austria.

	i. Warranty. The properly licensed software will perform substantially as described in any Microsoft materials that accompany it. However, Microsoft gives no contractual guarantee in relation to the software.

	ii. Limitation of Liability. In case of intentional conduct, gross negligence, claims based on the Product Liability Act, as well as in case of death or personal or physical injury, Microsoft is liable according to the statutory law.

Subject to the preceding sentence (ii), Microsoft will only be liable for slight negligence if Microsoft is in breach of such material contractual obligations, the fulfillment of which facilitate the due performance of these license terms, the breach of which would endanger the purpose of these license terms and the compliance with which a party may constantly trust in (so-called “cardinal obligations”). In other cases of slight negligence, Microsoft will not be liable for slight negligence.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY. The software is licensed “as-is”. You bear the risk of using it. Microsoft gives no express warranties, guarantees or conditions. To the extent permitted under your local laws, Microsoft excludes the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.

LIMITATION ON DAMAGES. You can recover from Microsoft and its suppliers only direct damages up to U.S. $5.00. You cannot recover any other damages, including consequential, lost profits, special, indirect or incidental damages.

This limitation applies to (a) anything related to the software, services, content (including code) on third party Internet sites, or third party applications; and (b) claims for breach of contract, breach of warranty, guarantee or condition, strict liability, negligence, or other tort to the extent permitted by applicable law.

It also applies even if Microsoft knew or should have known about the possibility of the damages. The above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you because your state or country may not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental, consequential or other damages.



Please note: As this software is distributed in Canada, some of the clauses in this agreement are provided below in French.

Remarque: Ce logiciel étant distribué au Canada, certaines des clauses dans ce contrat sont fournies ci-dessous en français.

EXONÉRATION DE GARANTIE. Le logiciel visé par une licence est offert « tel quel ». Toute utilisation de ce logiciel est à votre seule risque et péril. Microsoft n’accorde aucune autre garantie expresse. Vous pouvez bénéficier de droits additionnels en vertu du droit local sur la protection des consommateurs, que ce contrat ne peut modifier. La ou elles sont permises par le droit locale, les garanties implicites de qualité marchande, d’adéquation à un usage particulier et d’absence de contrefaçon sont exclues.

LIMITATION DES DOMMAGES-INTÉRÊTS ET EXCLUSION DE RESPONSABILITÉ POUR LES DOMMAGES. Vous pouvez obtenir de Microsoft et de ses fournisseurs une indemnisation en cas de dommages directs uniquement à hauteur de 5,00 $ US. Vous ne pouvez prétendre à aucune indemnisation pour les autres dommages, y compris les dommages spéciaux, indirects ou accessoires et pertes de bénéfices.

Cette limitation concerne:

tout ce qui est relié au logiciel, aux services ou au contenu (y compris le code) figurant sur des sites Internet tiers ou dans des programmes tiers; et

les réclamations au titre de violation de contrat ou de garantie, ou au titre de responsabilité stricte, de négligence ou d’une autre faute dans la limite autorisée par la loi en vigueur.

Elle s’applique également, même si Microsoft connaissait ou devrait connaître l’éventualité d’un tel dommage. Si votre pays n’autorise pas l’exclusion ou la limitation de responsabilité pour les dommages indirects, accessoires ou de quelque nature que ce soit, il se peut que la limitation ou l’exclusion ci-dessus ne s’appliquera pas à votre égard.

EFFET JURIDIQUE. Le présent contrat décrit certains droits juridiques. Vous pourriez avoir d’autres droits prévus par les lois de votre pays. Le présent contrat ne modifie pas les droits que vous confèrent les lois de votre pays si celles-ci ne le permettent pas.



EULAID: VS2026_Comm_ENU.1033
