Visual Studio 2010 Professional with MSDN

SharePoint Explorer helps you connect to, and browse an existing SharePoint Server. You can view artifacts including custom lists, document libraries, and Web parts from inside of Visual Studio. Click to enlarge.
The new code editor makes it easy to zoom in on your code, highlight method references, and overlay powerful features. Click to enlarge.
The inline call hierarchy helps quickly trace a program’s execution flow without invoking the debugger. Click to enlarge.
Creativity Unleashed
Create what you can imagine with powerful editing and visual design tools. Visual Studio opens new possibilities for your applications by unlocking the power of the processor on your local machine and in the cloud.
Simplicity Through Integration
Visual Studio 2010 Professional offers an integrated environment where developers can use existing skills to code, debug, unit test, and deploy a growing number of application types. Visual Studio simplifies common tasks and provides a personalized experience that lets developers explore the depth of underlying platforms.
Quality Code Ensured
Powerful tools help you deliver quality code quickly. With integrated support for test-first development as well as new debugging tools for multi-core programming you can easily find and fix bugs to deliver a quality solution.
Quickly interpret your code
The new code editor makes it easy to zoom in on your code, highlight method references, and overlay powerful features.
Create rich user experiences
Use new visual designers for Windows Presentation Foundation and Silverlight to target Windows7 and the Web.
Get scalability from Windows Azure
Integrated project templates, debugging, and publishing make it easy to deploy to Microsoft's cloud computing platform.
Open up new capabilities
Use integrated parallel programming support to add new capabilities on your application when it runs on a multi-core processor machine.
Customize Visual Studio to fit your style
Key IDE enhancements (including support for multiple monitors and improved readability) help make the familiar environment even more productive.
Use your existing skills
Work with SharePoint development, including tooling for Web Parts, Lists, Workflows, Events and more, so you can bring great new customized collaboration tools to your company.
Practice Test-First Development
Focus on your application logic while all the stub code necessary for compiling your unit tests is generated by Visual Studio.
Spend less time debugging
The inline call hierarchy helps quickly trace a program's execution flow without invoking the debugger. You can also use breakpoint labels make debugging easier.
Integrated Version Control, Bug Tracking and Build Automation
Visual Studio 2010 Professional with MSDN includes Team Foundation Server 2010 the ideal source control, bug tracking and build automation system for Visual Studio users. The Team Foundation Server basic install option is ideal for desktop use and the natural migration path for Microsoft Visual SourceSafe users.
MSDN Subscription Included
MSDN Subscriptions are a convenient way to cost-effectively develop applications on the Microsoft platform with a simple licensing model and broad high quality information resources.
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Debugging & Diagnostic
IntelliTrace (Historical Debugger)
Static Code Analysis
Code Metrics
Profiling
Testing
Unit Testing
Code Coverage
Test Impact Analysis
Coded UI Test
Web Performance Testing
Load Testing1
Microsoft Test Manager 2010
Test Case Management2
Manual Test Execution
Fast-Forward for Manual Testing
Lab Management Configuration3
Database Development
Database Deployment
Database Change Management2
Database Unit Testing
Database Test Data Generation
Development Platform Support
Windows Development
Web Development
Office and SharePoint Development
Cloud Development
Customizable Development Experience
Architecture and Modeling
Architecture Explorer
UML 2.0 Compliant Diagrams (Activity, Use Case, Sequence, Class, Component)
Layer Diagram and Dependency Validation
Read-only diagrams (UML, Layer, DGML Graphs)
Lab Management
Virtual environment setup & tear down3
Provision environment from template3
Checkpoint environment3
Team Foundation Server
Version Control2
Work Item Tracking2
Build Automation2
Team Portal2
Reporting & Business Intelligence2
Agile Planning Workbook2
Test Case Management2
Microsoft Visual Studio Team Explorer 2010
MSDN Subscription - Software for Production Use
Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010
Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 CAL
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Microsoft Expression Studio 3
Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate, Communicator 2007, Project 2007 Standard, Visio 2007 Professional, SharePoint Designer 2007
MSDN Subscription - Software for Development and Test Use4
Windows Azure
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Windows (client and server operating systems)
Microsoft SQL Server
Toolkits, Software Development Kits, Driver Development Kits
Microsoft SharePoint
Microsoft Dynamics
All other Servers
Windows Embedded operating systems
MSDN Subscription benefits
Team Explorer Everywhere (tools for cross-platform development)
Technical support incidents
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Priority support in MSDN Forums
Microsoft e-learning collections
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MSDN Magazine
MSDN Flash newsletter
MSDN Online Concierge
† Azure benefit includes 250 compute hrs/mo, 7.5 GB storage, 3 GB SQL Server database capacity, 1M .NET messages/month
†† Azure benefit includes 100 compute hrs/mo, 5 GB storage, 2 GB SQL Server database capacity, 500k .NET messages/month
††† Azure benefit includes 50 compute hrs/mo, 3 GB/mo storage, 1GB SQL Server database capacity, 300k .NET messages/month
1. May require one or more Microsoft Visual Studio Load Test Virtual User Pack 2010
2. Requires Team Foundation Server and a Team Foundation Server CAL
3. Requires Microsoft Visual Studio Team Lab Management 2010
4. Per-user license allows unlimited installations and use for designing, developing, testing, and demonstrating applications.
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