Getting started with Visual Studio Dev Essentials Benefits

Visual Studio Dev Essentials, a new, free program designed to provide any developer with everything they need to create applications on any device or operating system. The program provides easy access to popular Microsoft services, tools and resources as well as several new benefits to help developers get started building apps.

Free access to software trials and downloads make it easy for you to develop for multiple platforms.

• SQL Server Developer Edition
• Windows R Server
• Parallels Desktop® for Mac Pro Edition (3-month subscription)
• Parallels® Access (3-month subscription)
• Windows Platform VM (60 days)

Free access to priority support, technical and professional training from industry leaders

1.   LinkedIn Premium (business, tech and creative)
2.   Pluralsight (cloud, design, security, mobile and data)
3.   Data Camp (data-science and AI)
4.   Opsgility (cloud-focused)
5.   Mobile training on Xamarin University
6.   WintellectNOW (app development)
7.   Microsoft Virtual Academy
8.    Azure Community

Free access to cloud services such as compute and storage, backend services for your mobile or web apps, services for IoT, machine learning, and analytics.

1. Azure free account (includes 1 yr of free services, $200 for 1st month)
2. Azure DevOps account with five users
3. Visual Studio App Center
4. App Service free tier
5. Application Insights free tier

Tools to develop for any platform – for free. Tools include an extensible integrated development environment and code editors to create apps for macOS, Linux, and Windows, on PC or Mac.

1. Visual Studio Community
2. Visual Studio Community for Mac
3. Visual Studio Code

More details - https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/dev-essentials/