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Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

Visual Studio is a premier tool for developing high-quality applications that fit your organization’s needs. Visual Studio 2010 is designed to help users become instantly more productive when developing on the newest platforms and technologies.

Visual Studio 2010 will has a new and simplified product lineup, for the release of Visual Studio 2010 Microsoft is moving to a nested model. The new product lineup includes the following technologies.

  • Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN (Visual Studio IDE, Test and Lab Manager)
  • Visual Studio 2010 Premium with MSDN (Visual Studio IDE)
  • Visual Studio 2010 Professional with MSDN (Visual Studio IDE)
  • Visual Studio Test Elements 2010 with MSDN (Test and Lab Manager)

MSDN Subscription - NOW BIGGER and BETTER

In addition to getting access to the Microsoft software you need to support your application development, demo, and testing needs, as a MSDN subscriber you will enjoy a wealth of new benefits. Top enhancements include access to the Azure compute hours and E-learning collections.

  • Windows Azure Platform Services 
  • Microsoft E-Learning Collections


Visual Studio 2010 - Product Line

Customers should begin investigating the significant innovations in each of the technologies today. New testing options in Visual Studio 2010 will help ensure quality code. Enhancements to the integrated development environment mean that whether modeling, coding, testing or debugging, developers can use existing skills to deploy a growing number of application types.

Built-in tools for Windows 7 and Microsoft SharePoint 2010, new drag-and-drop bindings for Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), and interoperability with innovative technologies (such as those for the database, ASP.NET model view controller, unified modeling language, Expression, and multicore) allow developers to bring their visions to life. 

Customers can choose from three main versions of Visual Studio 2010:

  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN - The comprehensive suite of application life-cycle management tools for software teams to help ensure quality results from design to deployment
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Premium with MSDN - A complete toolset to help developers deliver scalable, high-quality applications
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional with MSDN - The essential tool for basic development tasks to assist developers in implementing their ideas easily 

Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
Provides a robust solution for Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), including all role SKUs from Visual Studio Team System 2008, in addition to other significant innovations, such as:

  • New architecture tools including new Unified Modeling Language (UML) assets that transfer your architecture from whiteboard to living assets
  • New tools that enable testing teams to capture rich and actionable bugs at different points in time
  • New testing tools that bring business users, test generalists and others into the process
  • An integrated development environment that enables development across cloud, on-premises and multiple platforms
  • With the highest level of MSDN subscription, all of Microsoft’s server and client applications for development and test usage

Visual Studio 2010 Premium
VS 2010 Premium offers a complete toolset for developers to deliver scalable, high-quality applications. 

  • Support for offline database development, unit testing and change management, static code analysis, performance profiling and code coverage and code metrics
  • New capabilities including UI test automation (aka coded UI tests) and Test Impact Analysis are available in premium.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional
VS 2010 Pro is the essential tool for basic development tasks to allow developers to implement their ideas easily.

  • Core capabilities for Windows, Web, and Office development, along with new capabilities for Cloud and SharePoint development
  • New tools for Silverlight and Multi-core development. With Visual Studio 2010, the IDE and editor were refreshed using Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation