Visual Studio 2019 License Cost

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Ifind startups can easily get visual studio pro for free, via bizspark and most companies of a decent size already have access to it via their MSDN accounts. Also if its a problem, even know it is not as good their is mono develop which is distributed with Unity under the same terms as unity.

OK so i have developed a VB.net web application that uses the crystal reports for visual studio module and wanted to know the license issues with deployment to the customer.

I used Visual Studio 2022 community edition and downloaded the CR for visual studio and the reports are displayed on a webpage. also I developed a windows EXE that can open a RPT not view and send it to a printer. can you help please?

I have called 0808 1012181 a number of times only to be told they can't answer despite trying 5 people

I have done a number of webchats and no one can answer

I have emailed and noone replies

please help and advise me as i have been trying for 2 months to deploy my software with no idea on license/costs

are you saying my customer with 3000+ users all need to buy CR designer? that's crazy thet would never need to use it. The user doesn't see the report that is printed from the server it goes to a printer in another warehouse and another process is automatic and prints labels to a label printer without any user intervention.

Most times Creators, like yourself, simply asks the Customer to download a single copy from SAP to enable your software, or you can build it into your Price, depending on if you want your users to have a copy of CR Designer or not, some don't.

FYI, I let SAP's product team know the Doc hasn't been updated to include Crystal Reports 2020 so they are updating it and you should be able to see the update hopefully by end of this week. I don't believe there is any change other than adding CR 2020 to the list.

i have a bot that communicates with the assistant api via http and only outputs the response as a message. there is a welcome message, otherwise only the http request.

in the Power Platform admin center in the Resources > Capacity > Summary tab

I have a question regarding migration of existing bots that run under the old licensing model. When the time comes to switch to the new licensing model, will we need to re-create the bots in new environments that run under the new licensing model or will it be done automatically?

Thanks for the info. One problem we are having is the unit of measure. Most of the documentation I've seen, and your answer, talks about billing units as "messages" but that's not what we are seeing in the CS interface. We are seeing the units as "Sessions" which aren't 1 or 1+1 as with messages. Dropping a screenshot from the interface ...

If we decide to create it using Microsoft Copilot Studio, we would need to pay at least $200/month for 1 Copilot Studio add-on (25,000 messages/month). With that, we can get as many user licenses to use Copilot Studio as we need for free, but we still need to go through the formality of getting those user licenses. The $200/month cost is really to run the copilots created by that Copilot Studio.

So what happens if any of the allocated limits (like the 25,000 messages/month limit or the Power Platform capacity limits) is exceeded by actual usage? Would the services affected by the limit just stop working or would a bill for the excess usage be sent to us?

Hi @HenryJammes ,

We already use Copilot studio in production and are billed according to the old sessions model. Do you know if there is a quick way to check bot messages sent in a month in the tenant, so we know how many add-ons we will need once we need to switch to the new billing model?

Calling cloud flows doesn't have an impact on the number of messages that are consumed since Power Automate use right in the context of Copilot Studio are already included (use of premium connectors, and a 250,000 Power Platform requests / 24h entitlement, as documented here: Quotas, limits, app registration, certificates, and configuration values - Microsoft Copilot Studio Microsoft Learn)

2. Docs say a 'message' is a request invoking a response or action by the bot; if the bot sends a group of 5 separate messages to the user, for example in the greeting, does that count as 1 message? And if it called a flow that would still be the 1 message?

You love to write code, not scan the document well for a file name you need to switch to, and then scan the file menu drop-down list, and then resort to Solution Explorer or search. Only to repeat it a minute later when you need to switch to another document! And when you open two files with the same name there is now a game to guess the right tab from the two identically looking ones. Or maybe you recently edited a file and now don't remember its exact name - no help for you to reopen recently saved files, all tabs look the same now. Switching just between two open documents back and forth is not possible with a single keyboard shortcut and no additional windows!

You switch documents in Visual Studio hundreds of times a day and naturally want it to be a non-event, not a little quest breaking your flow again and again. The Tabs Studio extension completely replaces Visual Studio tabs and gives you precise control how to view open documents and navigate between them.

All open document tabs are always visible in Tabs Studio, in multiple rows if needed. There is no need for the file menu drop-down list, no need to manually pin tabs, the tabs keep stable order and ready for your commands:

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It is possible to create custom corresponding file grouping rules. For example, if you use doc, ctl, and vm file name prefixes for documents, controls and view models, the following files docOrders.xaml, docOrders.xaml.vb, vmOrders.vb, ctlToolbar.xaml, ctlToolbar.xaml.vb and vmToolbar.vb can be grouped like this:

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