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Visual Studio 2010 Edition
Comparison & Buying Guide
Ok, you've decided to go with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. That's great! But, which edition? Have no fear, the Visual Studio 2010 Edition Comparison is here! This guide will help you compare visual studio editions by providing you with a simple, easy-to-follow outline of the different versions to help you make an informed decision.
Microsoft broke up Visual Studio 2010 into four editions: Test Professional, Professional, Premium, and Ultimate. Test Professional is designed specifically to simplify test planning and manual test execution. Great for QA teams, not so much for developers. With Visual Studio 2010 Pro, Premium, and Ultimate, each builds upon itself and includes more features than the last; giving you, the programmer, the toolset you need for each project. Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate contains not only all the development tools, but also has all the testing features found in Test Pro 2010. A complete breakdown and comparison of each edition and what it can do is listed below.
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| SoftwareMedia Price | $10295.00 | $4867.00 | $1150.00 | $2239.00 |
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| Test Impact Analysis | |
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| Microsoft® Test Manager 2010 | |
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| Manual Test Record & Playback | |
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| Lab Management Configuration | |
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| Database Change Management | |
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| Database Unit Testing | |
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| Customize Development Experience | |
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| UML® 2.0 Compliant Diagrams (Activity, Use Case, Sequence, Class, Component) | |
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| Layer Diagram and Dependency Validation | |
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| Provision environment from template | |
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| Checkpoint environment | |
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| Version Control | |
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| Team Portal | |
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| Reporting & Business Itelligence | |
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| Agile Planning Workbook | |
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| Test Case Management | |
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| Microsoft® Visual Studio® Team Explorer 2010 | |
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| Microsoft® Visual Studio® Team Foundation Server 2010 | |
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| Microsoft® Visual Studio® Team Foundation Server 2010 CAL | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Microsoft® Expression Studio 3 | |
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| Microsoft® Office 2007 Ultimate, Communicator 2007, Project 2007, Standard, Visio 2007 Professional, SharePoint Designer 2007 | |
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| Windows® Azure™ | |
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| Windows (client and server operating systems) | |
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| Microsoft® SQL Server® | |
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| Toolkits Software Development Kits, Driver Development Kits | |
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| Microsoft® SharePoint® | |
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| Microsfot Dynamics® | |
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| All other Servers | |
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| Windows Embedded operating systems | |
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| Teamprise-based technology | |
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| Technical support incidents | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| Priority support in MSDN Forums | |
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| Microsoft® e-learning collections | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| MSDN Magazine | |
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| MSDN Flash newsletter | |
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