Visual Studio 2010 Packaging

Visual Studio (VS) 2010 has changed the packaging of team development and other features. Shown here are three editions of the VS 2010 integrated development environment (IDE) and how some important features are distributed among those editions.

VS 2010 Professional includes all of the basic coding and debugging features of the IDE. Among other things, it includes new capabilities for parallel program development and debugging, Office and SharePoint development, and automation of unit testing for individual program modules. The Premium Edition delivers everything in Professional and adds database development features similar to those in the previous Team System Database Edition, new static analysis and performance profiling capabilities, and test impact analysis (which lists the test cases that have been affected by code changes since the last test run and therefore need to be run again). The Ultimate Edition delivers everything in Premium and includes the product’s substantially improved modeling features (such as features for defining application architectures and behavior with Unified Modeling Language diagrams), historical debugging (which captures the details of program executions during testing so that failures can be reproduced and analyzed by developers), and test lab management features for maintaining test configurations on virtual machines.