How many editions of Visual Studio 2010 are there?

4

What are the 4 editions of Visual Studio 2010?

1) Visual Studio 2010 Professional
2) Visual Studio 2010 Premium
3) Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
4) Visual Studio 2010 Test Professional

Tell me more about Visual Studio 2010 Professional?

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional comes with a range of features that enable developers to build, debug, unit test, and deploy high-quality applications on a diverse range of platforms including Windows, the Web, the Cloud, Office and SharePoint, and more.

Integrated Development Environment
Visual Studio 2010 Professional provides 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 your project is simple or complex, you can use Visual Studio 2010 Professional to bring your vision to life on a wide range of platforms including Windows, Windows Server, Web, Cloud, Office and SharePoint, and more.

Testing Tools
Visual Studio 2010 Professional includes unit-testing capabilities within the IDE that can generate all the method stubs necessary for compiling unit tests, which help to ensure each unit of code is performing correctly.

MSDN
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 Professional with MSDN is a subscription that provides access to both current and previous versions of core Microsoft platforms. This full subscription includes Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010, Windows Azure utilization hours, e-learning courses, and much more.

Tell me more about Visual Studio 2010 Premium?

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 of 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.

Tell me more about Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate?

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 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.

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.

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.

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 Premium recognizes this, and provides deployment and change-management tools that help ensure that your database and application are always in sync.

Integrated Development Environment
Visual Studio 2010 Premium puts you in control of 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.

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.

Tell me more about Visual Studio 2010 Test Professional?

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Test Professional is a specialized toolset for quality assurance teams that simplifies test planning and manual test execution. Test Professional works in conjunction with Visual Studio software for developers, enabling effective collaboration between developers and testers throughout the application development lifecycle.

Align testing efforts to the application lifecycle
Visual Studio Test Professional 2010 integrates with Team Foundation Server, a platform used by testers, developers, and other team members to align and track project objectives. This integration ensures that testers can collaborate effectively throughout the entire development process.

Embrace manual testing
Visual Studio Test Professional 2010 provides a modern interface for manual testing that walks you through test steps while collecting important information to include in bugs—items like Diagnostic Trace, Event Log, Action Log, Network Emulation, and System Information—that can be filed directly from the test interface.

File detailed and actionable bugs
The new IntelliTrace feature in Visual Studio Test Professional 2010 makes the "no-repro" discussion a thing of the past. Testers can file rich and actionable bugs with system information. That way developers can reproduce the reported bug in the state it was found.

Re-use manual test recordings
With Fast Forward for Manual Testing, you can record test steps in a sequential order, then playback and pause the recording as if you were performing the test steps manually. You can reuse the resulting recording in regression testing of the same test case.

Improve your test process
Visual Studio Test Professional 2010 was developed with testers in mind, providing clear workflow and guidance. You can create test plans, test suites, and test cases with nesting capabilities, and organize tests in the most effective and logical way. Test leads can begin test planning as early as the architecting and designing stages.