Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional (with MSDN)

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional 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.

• 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.

• SharePoint Explorer: 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.

Visual Studio 2010 Professional with MSDN is a subscription that provides access to both current and previous versions of core Microsoft platforms. This full subscription includes Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010, Windows Azure utilization hours, e-learning courses, and much more.
10.9 Terabytes and access to 12,000+ downloads. Priority responses to your burning questions. The Windows Azure cloud for your blue-sky projects. E-learning to keep you in front of the curve. The Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 edition you purchase comes with a subscription to MSDN, granting you access to virtually all of the Microsoft products you need to develop and test your next app.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional Features
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional is the essential tool for individuals performing basic development tasks. It simplifies the creation, debugging, and deployment of applications on a variety of platforms including SharePoint and the Cloud. Visual Studio 2010 Professional comes with integrated support for test-driven development, as well as debugging tools that help ensure high-quality solutions.

• Customise your workspace -- Writing application code often requires having numerous designers and editors open at once. Visual Studio 2010 Professional helps you organize your digital environment with support for multi-monitor, which makes it easier to manage the way you work.


• Create collaboration solutions on SharePoint -- Bring customized collaboration tools to your company by taking advantage of new support for SharePoint development, including tooling for Web parts, lists, workflows, events, and more.


• Build applications in Windows 7 -- Visual Studio 2010 Professional comes with built-in tools for Windows 7 development, including multi-touch and "ribbon" UI components that put you at the forefront of Windows 7 technology.


• Easily create RIA and WPF applications -- New drag-and-drop data binding in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight designers make building Windows and Rich Internet Applications (RIA) easy and fast, for both designers and developers.


• Simplify Web application deployment -- Move your Web applications into a production environment with a single click. Visual Studio 2010 Professional transfers your code, Internet Information Server (IIS) settings, and database schema to your target server.

WHAT'S NEW IN 2010

Set your ideas free
Create what you can imagine, build on the strengths of your team, and open up new possibilities.

• New prototyping, modeling, and visual design tools enable you to create innovative applications for Windows and the Web
• Create a shared vision as a foundation for creativity with SketchFlow, in Microsoft Expression Studio , and Team Foundation Server
• Take advantage of new opportunities & capabilities offered by multi-core programming and cloud development tools

Simplicity through integration
A single integrated development environment that takes your skills further and adjusts to the way you work.

• Complete all your coding, modeling, testing, debugging, and deployment work without leaving the Visual Studio 2010 environment
• Use existing standards and skills to target a growing number of application types including Microsoft SharePoint and Windows Azure
• Work your way through multi-monitor support, partner extensions, and a new editor.

Quality tools help ensure quality results
Powerful testing tools with proactive project management features help you build the right app the right way.

• Use the new IntelliTrace debugger to isolate the point of failure within a recorded application history.
• Stay ahead of the curve with proactive project management tools including new reports, dashboards, and planning worksheets.
• Know that you've built the right application the right way with manual and automated testing tools.

TOP REASONS TO UPGRADE

• 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--that 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. 12-month subscription to MSDN includes access to Visual Studio Team Foundation 2010 Server and one Client Access License, Windows Azure, Windows and Windows Server operating systems, Microsoft SQL Server, Two technical support incidents, E-learning collection, Priority support in MSDN forums and MSDN Flash newsletter.

System Requirements

Operating System
Visual Studio 2010 can be installed on the following operating systems:

• Windows XP (x86) with Service Pack 3 -- all editions except Starter Edition
• Windows XP (x64) with Service Pack 2 -- all editions except Starter Edition
• Windows Vista (x86 & x64) with Service Pack 1 -- all editions except Starter Edition
• Windows 7 (x86 and x64)
• Windows Server 2003 (x86 & x64) with Service Pack 2 -- all editions
• Users will need to install MSXML6 if not already present
• Windows Server 2003 R2 (x86 and x64) -- all editions
• Windows Server 2008 (x86 and x64) with Service Pack 2 -- all editions
• Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64) -- all editions

Supported Architectures

• 32-Bit (x86)
• 64-Bit (x64)

Processor
1.6 GHz or faster

Memory
1 GB RAM for x86; 2 GB RAM for x64
An additional 512 MB RAM if running in a Virtual Machine

Hard Disk
3GB of available hard disk space
5400 RPM hard disk drive

Drive
DVD-ROM Drive

Display
DirectX 9 capable video card running at 1024 x 768 or higher-resolution display

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