Visual Studio 2010 Professional (Old Version)

by Microsoft

Product Features

• Unit Testing
• Windows Development
• Office and SharePoint Development
• Microsoft Visual Studio Team Explorer 2010
• Test Case Management

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B0038KTO8S
• Item model number: C5E-00521
• Date first available at Amazon.com: February 15, 2010
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,409 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #5 in Software > Programming > Development Utilities

Product Description

Amazon.com

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional with MSDN Essentials Subscription* is an integrated environment that simplifies creating, debugging and deploying applications. Unleash your creativity and bring your vision to life with powerful design surfaces and innovative collaboration methods for developers and designers. Work within a personalized environment, targeting a growing number of platforms, including Microsoft SharePoint and cloud applications and accelerate the coding process by using your existing skills. Integrated support for Test-First Development and new debugging tools let you find and fix bugs quickly and easily to ensure high quality solutions.

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..

Top Ten Benefits

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 Windows 7 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 Essentials Subscription Included
MSDN Essentials gives you a one-year test drive of the latest core Microsoft platforms and enhanced support from a professional community so you can target more platforms and fix issues fast.  Discover the comprehensive resources that a full MSDN subscription offers, and enjoy the option of an inexpensive, seamless upgrade experience.

Note: 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 Feature Comparison

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	1	1	1	1
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™	†	††	†††
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	4	4	2	2
Priority support in MSDN Forums
Microsoft e-learning collections	2	2	1	1
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.
UML is a registered trademark of Object Management Group, Inc.
Windows is either a registered trademark or trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.

Product Description

An integrated environment that simplifies creating, debugging and deploying applications. Unleash your creativity and bring your vision to life with powerful design surfaces and innovative collaboration methods for developers and designers.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Product March 14, 2011

By J. White

This product has some great new improvements and seems to work fine. My only complaint is that Microsoft really socks it to you in terms of price. Apple provides its new Xcode 4 software good for programming on Macs, iPhones, and Ipads to non developers for less than 5 bucks. Free if you are a member of their developers group.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome Tool, incredibly intuitive and packed with features November 16, 2011

By T. Nield

I've done VBA programming for awhile and I decided to take the plunge into .NET programming, primarily with VB.net. I've had this for only a day but I am extremely impressed with the robust features and "on-the-fly" developing support tools this has. I mostly played in the Office 2010 add-in templates and it is impressive how much work it saves you. It has everything from the calling procedures, ribbon customizations, and deployment solutions all set up and ready to go. And that is only one small functionality for one purpose. I cannot wait to start dabbling in the database functionalities and other features this has to offer.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Compatible with Windows 7; no direct upgrade path for VB6 to VB2010 programs August 17, 2012

By Crash and Burn

Amazon Verified Purchase

I've been maintaining an application at work that was written in VB6. VB6 is OK, and I'm familiar with its idiosyncracies, but it is only supported thru Windows XP, and we are moving to Windows 7. I got this product as it was the most recent release by Microsoft so it should be supported longer than earlier versions.

I had Visual Studio 2010 Express installed, and didn't uninstall that before I installed this version and kept getting Unhandled Exceptions. I uninstalled everything, then reinstalled this version of Visual Studio, and the unhandled exceptions still happen but don't crash my Visual Studio session, and are a lot less frequent.

A word to the wise: If you have any part of Visual Studio 2010 installed as an express version, uninstall it before installing Visual Studio 2010.

Also, if you are using .dll's with Visual Studio 2005, or 2008, they won't work with Visual Studio 2010, so keep those applications.

One thing I miss that was in VB6, but isn't in VB2010, is the ability to directly create control arrays. I haven't figured out exactly how to do it, but I'm sure I'll be able to generate a list of controls, and use that like an array. Still, an extra level of pain, and indirection.

In fact, there is so much difference between VB6 abd VB2010 that Microsoft doesn't even allow you to automatically convert from VB6 to VB2010. You could convert from VB6 to VB2005 or VB2008, and from there to VB 2010, but you still lose control arrays.

Update:
VB6 created control arrays automatically. You can create the controls, create an array for the controls, then assign the controls to the array. After that, you have your control array. You can use a For Next loop to assign the event handlers to the controls in the control array, or explicitly assign the handlers to the controls individually.

I haven't found the "Last Position" drop down menu item from VB6, if it even still exits, but I do like the ability to have the IDE create a stub function, and also to rename all the instances of a routine or variable with one command.