Visual Studio is offered through the Visual Studio Community for free, under specific circumstances.

Please read their usage guidelines, paying particular attention to this:


"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 five users can use Visual Studio Community. In enterprise organizations (meaning those with >250 PCs or >$1 Million US Dollars in annual revenue), no use is permitted beyond the open source, academic research, and classroom learning environment scenarios described above."


If your use of Visual Studio is allowed, based on the above guidelines, here is a link to the Visual Studio Community: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/

If you need to purchase Visual Studio, please fill out this form: https://csu-ets.freshservice.com/support/catalog/items/11