We are planning to buy the Visual Studio Professional 2008 Edition to build some Proprietary
software for ourself.
We have 3 developers working on this software.
The question is
Can we distribute the application(just the exe) throughout the office?
What are the restrictions?if any.
I went through the documentation provided by MS but its tought for me to digest or I did not get astraight forward answer
Any help Appreciated.
Can you please back your answers by some sort of Proofs(eg.links,docs etc ) from Microsft website?.
Is there any specific reason you need the professional version? Visual Studio Express is free, and you can build any applicaitons you want and distribute them as much as you want.
All applications you build with visual studio have a royalty free, unrestricted license to distribute as you see fit. If you buy an third party components they may have different licenses, but anything that comes with visual studio is freely redistributable (as long as you follow the rules for redistributing the runtimes).
UPDATE:
If you want “proofs” from Microsoft, just read the EULA
Visual Studio 2008 Professional End User License Agreement