Conscious Development

Now that Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 is out, some new information about the packaging of the product is also revealed. Gone is the old jumble of nearly dozen different flavors. Now everything comes in three different products: Visual Studio Professional, Visual Studio Premium and Visual Studio Ultimate. The professional has similar concept than before – cheapest edition for professional developer, with the most important basic stuff to developing code. New is that now it comes with support to Sharepoint and cloud development.

Premium edition is like a boosted Team Edition for Developers. It has all the advanced features from previous Developer and Database editions and some features from the tester edition.

Ultimate is the  – should I say – ultimate version with everything you can imagine. Like Team Suite was at 2005-2008 timeframe. Af course there are some new features, like IntelliTrace – a new historical debugger which enables debugging events that ran previously on your machine. It also has the Test case management and lab manger tools built-in – in addition to new architectere and UML (yes, UML) modeling tools.

One notable benefit is that all these versions come with some Azure computing time.

VSTS exists no more?

The brand name Team System seems to be removed from the universe. It is not in any product name anymore. TFS accessibility (and team work) is considered an entry-level feature today, so it’s bundled with all editions of VS.

There is even a light version of TFS coming out, TFS Basic which aims to finally kill VSS.

Visual Studio 2010 SKUs

Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
- Visual Studio IDE
- Test and Lab Manager

Visual Studio 2010 Premium
- Visual Studio IDE

Visual Studio 2010 Professional
- Visual Studio IDE

Visual Studio Test Elements 2010
- Test and Lab Manager

Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010
- Server/CAL licensing

Visual Studio Team Lab Management 2010
- Server/per processor licensing
- Requires Test Elements or Ultimate

Visual Studio Load Test Virtual User Pack 2010
- 1,000 virtual users

And finally, there are also the free Express editions for C#, VB, C++ and web development.

Oh, in case you didn’t know already, official launch of VS 2010 will be 22.3.2010. More information available at: http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010/default.mspx

And finally, some information in more detail for those interested:

	Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN	Visual Studio 2010 Premium with MSDN	Visual Studio 2010 Professional with MSDN	Visual Studio Test Elements 2010 with MSDN
IntelliTrace™	●	◌	◌	◌
Architecture Explorer	●	◌	◌	◌
UML Modeling	●	◌	◌	◌
Layer Diagraming	●	◌	◌	◌
Read-only Architecture Diagrams	◌	●	◌	◌
Web & Load Testing	●	◌	◌	◌
Test Case Management	●	◌	◌	●
Manual Test Record & Playback	●	◌	◌	●
Static Code Analysis	●	●	◌	◌
Code Metrics	●	●	◌	◌
Performance Profiling	●	●	◌	◌
Database Change Management	●	●	◌	◌
Test Data Generation	●	●	◌	◌
UI Test Automation	●	●	◌	◌
Test Impact Analysis & Code Coverage	●	●	◌	◌
Unit Testing	●	●	●	◌
SharePoint Development	●	●	●	◌
Office Development	●	●	●	◌
Web Development	●	●	●	◌
Windows Development	●	●	●	◌

Software for Production Use	Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN	Visual Studio 2010 Premium with MSDN	Visual Studio 2010 Professional with MSDN	Visual Studio Test Elements 2010 with MSDN
Visual Studio® Team Foundation Server 2010	●	●	●	●
Visual Studio® Team Foundation Server 2010 CAL	1	1	1	1
Microsoft® Expression Studio 3	●	●	◌	◌
Microsoft® Office 2007 Ultimate, Communicator 2007, Project 2007 Standard, Visio 2007 Professional, SharePoint Designer 2007	●	●	◌	◌
Software for Development and Test Use	Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN	Visual Studio 2010 Premium with MSDN	Visual Studio 2010 Professional with MSDN	Visual Studio Test Elements 2010 with MSDN
Windows® Azure™	●	●	●	●
Windows (client and server)	●	●	●	●
Microsoft® SQL Server®	●	●	●	●
Toolkits, Software Development Kits, Driver Development Kits	●	●	●	●
Microsoft® Office	●	●	◌	◌
Microsoft Dynamics®	●	●	◌	◌
All other servers	●	●	◌	◌
Windows Embedded operating systems	●	●	◌	◌
Other key MSDN Subscription benefits	Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN	Visual Studio 2010 Premium with MSDN	Visual Studio 2010 Professional with MSDN	Visual Studio Test Elements 2010 with MSDN
Microsoft® Learning Collections	2	2	1	1
Online Concierge	●	●	●	●
Technical support incidents	4	4	2	2
Priority support in MSDN Forums	●	●	●	●

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