Azure Artifacts includes nuget’s repository – something that almost every project on earth uses. Hence, it came as a shocker to me that Visual Studio Professional does not give you access to Azure Artifacts. You have to go Enterprise for that (a difference of about $5000).

This got me on the phone with Microsoft to figure out a workaround. Fortunately, after speaking to a couple of people, I got someone who had an answer.

Basically, you CAN access artifacts with the Professional edition – you just need to purchase the Artifacts subscription separately (it costs a few dollars a month, so that’s much more reasonable). Whew- just saved $5000…

Anuj holds professional certifications in Google Cloud, AWS as well as certifications in Docker and App Performance Tools such as New Relic. He specializes in Cloud Security, Data Encryption and Container Technologies.

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