VISUAL STUDIO 2010 COMPARISON
COMPARE PRODUCT FEATURES
COMPARE SUBSCRIPTION BENEFITS
| BENEFITS | PROFESSIONAL WITH MSDN ESSENTIALS | PROFESSIONAL WITH MSDN | PREMIUM WITH MSDN | ULTIMATE WITH MSDN | TEST PROFESSIONAL WITH MSDN |
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 Software and Services for Production Use |   | | | | |
| Software for Development and Testing 4 | | | | | |
| Other Benefits | | | | | |
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1. May require one or more Microsoft Visual Studio Load Test Virtual User Pack 2010
2. Team Foundation Server and a Team Foundation Server CAL are included as a benefit in some MSDN subscriptions and can also be purchased separately
3. UML is a registered trademark of Object Management Group, Inc.
4. Per-user license allows unlimited installations and use for designing, developing, testing, and demonstrating applications
5. Requires Team Foundation Server and a Team Foundation Server CAL, which are not included in MSDN Essentials
6. Availability varies by country and subscription level; details available on the MSDN site; future subscriber benefit (starting November 2010 or later)
7. One Team Foundation Server CAL per subscription
8. Feature Pack availability varies by subscription level
9. Equivalent to Microsoft Expression Studio 4 Ultimate, but does not include SketchFlow
For detailed system requirements for Lab Management, click here.
For detailed system requirements for Team Foundation Server 2010, click here.
For detailed system requirements for Team Explorer Everywhere 2010, click here.
What is Visual Studio Express?
Visual Studio 2010 is a complete development environment from Microsoft for creating web applications, client (Windows) applications, and Windows Phone 7 applications. In contrast, Visual Studio 2010 Express is a set of free, entry-level products that features streamlined interfaces and core capabilities that focus on providing the tools that you need for creating applications for a single platform. For example, Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone provides the tools that you need to create games and applications for Windows Phone 7. Integration with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, and advanced design, development and test capabilities, such as 64-bit development, unit testing and remote debugging, are not included in the Express products.
| VISUAL BASIC 2010 EXPRESS | VISUAL C++ 2010 EXPRESS 1 | VISUAL C# 2010 EXPRESS | VISUAL WEB DEVELOPER 2010 EXPRESS 2 | WINDOWS PHONE DEVELOPER TOOLS 3 | |
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Windows Applications (.NET) |  | | |||
Console Applications (.NET) | | | | ||
Windows Applications (Win32) | | ||||
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Cloud Applications (Windows Azure) | 5 | ||||
HTML & ASP.NET Web Applications | | ||||
Windows Phone Applications | | ||||
Programming Languages You Can Use | |||||
Visual Basic | | | 4 | ||
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JavaScript | | ||||
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1. To compare C++ functionality across all Visual Studio 2010 levels, see Visual C++ Editions.
2. To learn more about Visual Web Developer 2010 Express capabilities, see Visual Web Developer Express.
3. When you install Windows Phone Developer Tools, you install Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone, Windows Phone Emulator, Expression Blend, XNA Game Studio, samples, and other SDK components. If Visual Studio 2010 Professional or higher is already installed on your development computer, an add-in for Visual Studio 2010 Professional is automatically installed as well. With the exception of a few debugging features, the add-in provides Windows Phone application development support equivalent to Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone.
4. This first release of Visual Basic support for the Windows Phone Developer Tools requires that you have Visual Studio 2010 Professional or higher, and does not yet support Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone.
5. To create cloud applications on Windows Azure, you must also install the Windows Azure SDK and Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio.
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