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Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional with MSDN Essentials Subscription* is an integrated environment that simplifies creating, debugging and deploying applications. Unleash your creativity and bring your vision to life with powerful design surfaces and innovative collaboration methods for developers and designers. Work within a personalized environment, targeting a growing number of platforms, including Microsoft SharePoint and cloud applications and accelerate the coding process by using your existing skills. Integrated support for Test-First Development and new debugging tools let you find and fix bugs quickly and easily to ensure high quality solutions.
 SharePoint Explorer helps you connect to, and browse an existing SharePoint Server. You can view artifacts including custom lists, document libraries, and Web parts from inside of Visual Studio. Click to enlarge. | ||||
 The new code editor makes it easy to zoom in on your code, highlight method references, and overlay powerful features. Click to enlarge. |
 The inline call hierarchy helps quickly trace a program’s execution flow without invoking the debugger. Click to enlarge. |
Create what you can imagine with powerful editing and visual design tools. Visual Studio opens new possibilities for your applications by unlocking the power of the processor on your local machine and in the cloud.
Simplicity Through Integration
Visual Studio 2010 Professional offers an integrated environment where developers can use existing skills to code, debug, unit test, and deploy a growing number of application types. Visual Studio simplifies common tasks and provides a personalized experience that lets developers explore the depth of underlying platforms.
Quality Code Ensured
Powerful tools help you deliver quality code quickly. With integrated support for test-first development as well as new debugging tools for multi-core programming you can easily find and fix bugs to deliver a quality solution..
Top Ten Benefits
Quickly interpret your code
The new code editor makes it easy to zoom in on your code, highlight method references, and overlay powerful features.
Create rich user experiences
Use new visual designers for Windows Presentation Foundation and Silverlight to target Windows 7 and the Web.
Get scalability from Windows Azure
Integrated project templates, debugging, and publishing make it easy to deploy to Microsoft’s cloud computing platform.
Open up new capabilities
Use integrated parallel programming support to add new capabilities on your application when it runs on a multi-core processor machine.
Customize Visual Studio to fit your style
Key IDE enhancements (including support for multiple monitors and improved readability) help make the familiar environment even more productive.
Use your existing skills
Work with SharePoint development, including tooling for Web Parts, Lists, Workflows, Events and more, so you can bring great new customized collaboration tools to your company.
Practice Test-First Development
Focus on your application logic while all the stub code necessary for compiling your unit tests is generated by Visual Studio.
Spend less time debugging
The inline call hierarchy helps quickly trace a program’s execution flow without invoking the debugger. You can also use breakpoint labels make debugging easier.
Integrated Version Control, Bug Tracking and Build Automation
Visual Studio 2010 Professional with MSDN includes Team Foundation Server 2010 the ideal source control, bug tracking and build automation system for Visual Studio users. The Team Foundation Server basic install option is ideal for desktop use and the natural migration path for Microsoft Visual SourceSafe users.
MSDN Essentials Subscription Included
MSDN Essentials gives you a one-year test drive of the latest core Microsoft platforms and enhanced support from a professional community so you can target more platforms and fix issues fast. Discover the comprehensive resources that a full MSDN subscription offers, and enjoy the option of an inexpensive, seamless upgrade experience.
Note: Visual Studio 2010 Professional with MSDN Essentials is a one-year trial subscription that provides access to the latest core Microsoft platforms—Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2—in addition to providing enhanced support from a professional community. Visual Studio 2010 Professional with MSDN Essentials may be upgraded to Visual Studio 2010 Professional with MSDN at the end of the trial period.
Visual Studio 2010 Feature Comparison
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Debugging & Diagnostic | ||||
IntelliTrace (Historical Debugger) |  | |||
Static Code Analysis | | | ||
Code Metrics | | | ||
Profiling | | | ||
Testing | ||||
Unit Testing | | | | |
Code Coverage | | | ||
Test Impact Analysis | | | ||
Coded UI Test | | | ||
Web Performance Testing | | |||
Load Testing1 | | |||
Microsoft Test Manager 2010 | | | ||
Test Case Management2 | | | ||
Manual Test Execution | | | ||
Fast-Forward for Manual Testing | | | ||
Lab Management Configuration3 | | | ||
Database Development | ||||
Database Deployment | | | ||
Database Change Management2 | | | ||
Database Unit Testing | | | ||
Database Test Data Generation | | | ||
Development Platform Support | ||||
Windows Development | | | | |
Web Development | | | | |
Office and SharePoint Development | | | | |
Cloud Development | | | | |
Customizable Development Experience | | | | |
Architecture and Modeling | ||||
Architecture Explorer | | |||
UML 2.0 Compliant Diagrams (Activity, Use Case, Sequence, Class, Component) | | |||
Layer Diagram and Dependency Validation | | |||
Read-only diagrams (UML, Layer, DGML Graphs) | | |||
Lab Management | ||||
Virtual environment setup & tear down3 | | | ||
Provision environment from template3 | | | ||
Checkpoint environment3 | | | ||
Team Foundation Server | ||||
Version Control2 | | | | |
Work Item Tracking2 | | | | |
Build Automation2 | | | | |
Team Portal2 | | | | |
Reporting & Business Intelligence2 | | | | |
Agile Planning Workbook2 | | | | |
Test Case Management2 | | | | |
Microsoft Visual Studio Team Explorer 2010 | | | | |
MSDN Subscription - Software for Production Use | ||||
Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 | | | | |
Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 CAL | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Microsoft Expression Studio 3 | | | ||
Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate, Communicator 2007, Project 2007 Standard, Visio 2007 Professional, SharePoint Designer 2007 | | | ||
MSDN Subscription - Software for Development and Test Use4 | ||||
Windows Azure™ |
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Windows (client and server operating systems) | | | | |
Microsoft SQL Server | | | | |
Toolkits, Software Development Kits, Driver Development Kits | | | | |
Microsoft SharePoint | | | ||
Microsoft Dynamics | | | ||
All other Servers | | | ||
Windows Embedded operating systems | | | ||
MSDN Subscription benefits | ||||
Team Explorer Everywhere (tools for cross-platform development) | | |||
Technical support incidents | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
Priority support in MSDN Forums | | | | |
Microsoft e-learning collections | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
MSDN Magazine | | | | |
MSDN Flash newsletter | | | | |
MSDN Online Concierge | | | | |
† Azure benefit includes 250 compute hrs/mo, 7.5 GB storage, 3 GB SQL Server database capacity, 1M .NET messages/month
†† Azure benefit includes 100 compute hrs/mo, 5 GB storage, 2 GB SQL Server database capacity, 500k .NET messages/month
††† Azure benefit includes 50 compute hrs/mo, 3 GB/mo storage, 1GB SQL Server database capacity, 300k .NET messages/month
1. May require one or more Microsoft Visual Studio Load Test Virtual User Pack 2010
2. Requires Team Foundation Server and a Team Foundation Server CAL
3. Requires Microsoft Visual Studio Team Lab Management 2010
4. Per-user license allows unlimited installations and use for designing, developing, testing, and demonstrating applications.
UML is a registered trademark of Object Management Group, Inc.
Windows is either a registered trademark or trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.
An integrated environment that simplifies creating, debugging and deploying applications. Unleash your creativity and bring your vision to life with powerful design surfaces and innovative collaboration methods for developers and designers.