www.visualstudio.com/license-terms/mt171551/ I have 7 guys (including me) who basically use FDI to make console applications and web applications, let`s take a hypothetical case, in which 4 employees have installed Visual Studio Express (I just finished buying Visual Studio Professional for each of them so that this is no longer a problem for me) and the other 3 have Visual Studio Professional licenses, I`m doing some kind of license violation using the Express Edition, I ask the question because one of Microsoft`s partners said, “You can`t use Visual Studio Express for any type of development activity. MSDN Community Support Please be sure to click Mark in response. This can be beneficial for other members of the community who read this thread. If you have any compliments or complaints to MSDN support, please contact MSDNFSF@microsoft.com. The Express is really free. It is not a 🙂 I would stop to wonder why you want to use it, because there are almost no cases where your company is not the big loser of VisualStudio. It is free because it is basically only useful for learning and making products that block you at a really high cost on the road. Development studios are free for any large platform. Don`t just jump into VS because you can get a free version. The odds are good, 99% of the time, you should run away.
I`m hardly an MS license expert, but I think if you fall into this section of the business with less than 1 MM in revenue and less than 250 PCs/user, then you can use Community Edition to create your apps. According to my understanding of the Visual Studio 2017 Express license, you can develop and sell your applications, you don`t have to pay for the use of this tool, just respect these license elements. If you are still concerned about this tool, I suggest you use Visual Studio Community 2017, it is free to use and clearly stated in its license that you can sell your app: Do you have more than 1 developer? The developer is the user of the Visual Studio software, not the rest of your employees. And if you have multiple developers, everyone can download and install their own copy. The license says that you can`t install it on a terminal server or RDS and that multiple developers use the same computer and the same Visual Studio installation. Visual Studio Express has been replaced by visual Studio Community-Edition, which is also available for free,[4] but with another license. Compared to Visual Studio Express, the new license for open source licenses is more user-friendly, but less so for some open source developers.