Visual Studio 2010 Packaging

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

VS 2010 Professional will include all of the basic coding and debugging features of the IDE. Among other things, it will include new capabilities for parallel program development and debugging, Office and SharePoint application development, and automation of unit testing for individual program modules.

The Premium Edition will deliver everything in Professional and add database development features similar to those in the current Team System Database Edition, new static analysis and performance profiling capabilities, and test impact analysis (which lists the test cases that need to be run again because they have been affected by code changes since the last test run).

An Ultimate Edition will deliver everything in Premium and include the product’s substantially improved modeling features (such as Unified Modeling Language diagrams for defining application architectures and behavior), 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.