Microsoft Visual Studio

Comprehensive tools that help unleash your creativity and deliver impactful solutions.

2010 Professional

For individuals to perform
basic development tasks.

2010 Premium

For individuals and teams to deliver
scalable, high-quality applications.

2010 Ultimate

ALM tools for teams to ensure quality
results, from design to deployment.

Visual Studio 2010 launched April 12, 2010.

MSDN subscribers and Open License customers will get access to Visual Studio 2010 within days of launch date through download from the MSDN site. For other customers, purchases of Visual Studio 2010 made in April may take 4-6 weeks for shipment.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional Whether continuing to maintain applications built in Visual Studio 2005/2008 or targeting the latest Microsoft platforms, developers using Visual Studio 2010 will search and navigate through code in less time, work across multiple monitors, and quickly find bugs. Now is the best time to take advantage of cost saving offers that provide you with access to Microsoft operating systems, servers, and professional development tools at a fraction of the cost.

Easy Upgrade

It has never been easier to upgrade to the latest version of Visual Studio. Whether you're maintaining a legacy application or starting a new project, Visual Studio 2010 helps you make the most of what you already have.

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Instant Productivity

Take advantage of time saving enhancements to the core development experience in Visual Studio 2010. With 2010, you will spend less time debugging, stretch your IDE across multiple monitors, and quickly navigate your code files.

Top Five Reasons to Upgrade

1. Optimized Development Environment: Visual Studio 2010 Professional enables you to optimize your development environment with seamless multiple monitor support, allowing you to visualize your code and debug on one monitor while viewing external help or a tools window on the secondary monitor.
2. New Support for SharePoint Development: Visual Studio 2010 Professional delivers new support for SharePoint development, including numerous templates for SharePoint components, tooling for Web Parts, Lists, Workflows, and Events so you can easily build customized collaboration solutions.
3. Complete Development Solution: Visual Studio 2010 Professional with MSDN Essentials is your complete development solution, providing access to the latest versions of Windows, Windows Server and SQL Server and delivering your proven source for latest technical information and product experts.
4. Enhanced Multi-targeting Support: Visual Studio 2010 Professional includes enhanced multi-targeting support, with new reference assemblies and the most accurate IntelliSense ever, allowing you to target multiple versions of the .NET framework with one tool.
5. Simplified Build of Web Applications: Visual Studio 2010 Professional simplifies building standards-based web applications with improved AJAX frameworks, core IntelliSense support for JavaScript, and the integration of the popular jQuery framework, an open-source JavaScript library.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Premium Complete toolset to deliver scalable, high quality applications Premium Features Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Premium simplifies common tasks, giving you the freedom to design, code, test, and deploy applications on a variety of platforms. Visual Studio 2010 Premium comes with powerful editing and visual design features, as well as advanced code analysis, debugging, and testing tools that let you spend more time creating rich applications and less time debugging.

Testing Tools

Visual Studio 2010 Premium comes with standard testing tools to help ensure the delivery of quality code every time. Take advantage of coded UI tests, which automate the testing of user interfaces in Web and Windows-based applications, as well as unit testing, code coverage, and test impact analysis.

Database Development

Database development requires the same care and attention as application development. Visual Studio 2010 Premium recognizes this, and provides deployment and change-management tools that help ensure that your database and application are always in sync.

Debugging and Diagnostics

Code analysis tools help you avoid common coding errors before they get into production. You can quickly configure code analysis in Visual Studio 2010 Premium with sets of rules that are targeted at specific scenarios or areas of emphasis. Additionally, code metrics ensure that your code is not complex and is maintainable.

Integrated Development Environment

Visual Studio 2010 Premium puts you in control or your digital workspace. Take advantage of customizable features like support for multi-monitor, so you can organize and manage your work however you want. You can also unleash your creativity by utilizing visual designers to leverage the latest platforms, including Windows 7.

Development Platform Support

Bring your vision to life with Visual Studio 2010 Premium on a wide range of platforms including Windows, Windows Server, Web, Cloud, Office and SharePoint, and more, all in a single IDE.

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)

Building successful applications requires a smooth-running process that benefits all team participants. The integrated ALM tools in Visual Studio 2010 Premium help organizations collaborate and communicate effectively at every level and gain visibility into real project status, thus ensuring the delivery of high-quality solutions while driving down costs.

Team Foundation Server

Team Foundation Server (TFS) is the collaboration platform at the core of Microsoft's application lifecycle management solution. TFS automates and streamlines the software delivery process, as well as provides full traceability and real-time visibility into project status, for all team members, with powerful reporting tools and dashboards.

MSDN Subscription

Your purchase of Visual Studio 2010 Premium with MSDN includes all of the operating systems and database software included with Visual Studio 2010 Professional, but also access to Microsoft Office, SharePoint server, and Microsoft Dynamics. Plus there's technical support, use of the Windows Azure platform, e-learning, Expression Studio, the MSDN magazine, and early access to to new and beta releases.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate is the comprehensive suite of application lifecycle management tools for teams to ensure quality results, from design to deployment. Whether you're creating new solutions or enhancing existing applications, Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate lets you bring your vision to life targeting an increasing number of platforms and technologies — including cloud and parallel computing.

Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Features

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate comes packed with powerful tools that simplify the entire application development process from start to finish. Teams can realize increased productivity and cost savings by utilizing advanced collaboration features as well as integrated testing and debugging tools that help ensure that you deliver high-quality code every time.

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)

Building successful applications requires a smooth-running process that benefits all team participants. The integrated ALM tools in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate help organizations collaborate and communicate effectively at every level and gain visibility into real project status, thus ensuring the delivery of high-quality solutions while driving down costs.

Debugging and Diagnostics

Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate introduces IntelliTrace, a valuable debugging feature that makes the "no repro" discussion a thing of the past. Testers can file rich, actionable bugs so developers can always reproduce the reported bug in the state it was found. Other features include static code analysis, code metrics, and profiling.

Testing Tools

Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate comes loaded with all of our advanced testing tools to help ensure the delivery of quality code every time. Take advantage of coded UI tests, which automate the testing of user interfaces in Web and Windows-based applications, as well as manual testing, Test Professional, Web performance testing, load testing, code coverage, and other comprehensive features not found in other Visual Studio editions.

Architecture and Modeling

The Architecture Explorer in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate helps you understand your existing code assets and their interdependencies. Layer diagramming helps ensure architectural compliance and allows you to validate code artifacts against the diagram. Plus Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate supports the five most common UML diagrams that live alongside your code.

Database Development

Database development requires the same care and attention as application development. Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate recognizes this, and provides robust deployment and change-management tools that help ensure that your database and application are always in sync.

Integrated Development Environment

Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate puts you in the driver's seat. Take advantage of customizable features like support for multi-monitor so you can organize and manage your work however you want. You can also unleash your creativity by utilizing visual designers to leverage the latest platforms, including Windows 7.

Development Platform Support

Whether you're creating new solutions or enhancing existing applications, Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate lets you bring your vision to life on a wide range of platforms including Windows, Windows Server, Web, Cloud, Office and SharePoint, and more, all in a single IDE.

Team Foundation Server

Team Foundation Server (TFS) is the collaboration platform at the core of Microsoft's application lifecycle management solution. TFS automates and streamlines the software delivery process, as well as provides full traceability and real-time visibility into project status, for all team members, with powerful reporting tools and dashboards.

Lab Management

Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate offers a full suite of test lab features including provisioning environments from templates, virtual environment setup and teardown, and checkpoint environments. (Lab Management will be available as a Release Candidate at RTM and will ship later in the calendar year.)

MSDN Subscription

Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN is the most comprehensive offering for developers. Besides all of the features contained in Visual Studio 2010 Professional with MSDN and Visual Studio 2010 Premium with MSDN, Ultimate with MSDN includes additional hours of Azure compute time, non Visual Studio access to Team Foundation Server through Teamprise, and Test and Lab Manager software.

Microsoft Visual Studio Test Professional 2010

Microsoft Visual Studio Test Professional 2010, the integrated testing toolset that delivers a complete plan-test-track workflow.

Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010

Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 is the collaboration platform at the core of Microsoft's application lifecycle management solution.

Microsoft Visual Studio Lab Management 2010

Microsoft Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 is an integrated development and testing platform that provides end-to-end support for virtual lab management, enabling teams to rapidly provision environments to a known state for test execution and build automation.
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