Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Purchasing Visual Studio 2010

Amazon sells various versions of Visual Studio 2010. Here is an overview of versions and this will give you a good indication of prices. Below the prices is a feature comparison also…

Visual Studio Professional

Plain

Upgrade from 2005/2008

with MSDN

Visual Studio Premium

with new MSDN

with MSDN renewal

Visual Studio Utlimate

with new MSDN

with MSDN renewal

Visual Studio 2010 Feature Comparison


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™	†	††	†††
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.

Visual Studio 2010

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