Visual Studio 2010 Comparison
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1. Team Foundation Server and a Team Foundation Server CAL are included as a benefit in some MSDN subscriptions and can also be purchased separately
2. UML is a registered trademark of Object Management Group, Inc.
3. Per-user license allows unlimited installations and use for designing, developing, testing, and demonstrating applications
4. Requires Team Foundation Server and a Team Foundation Server CAL, which are not included in MSDN Essentials
5. Customers who have already signed-up for the original offer for MSDN Subscribers and BizSpark program participants will automatically receive the benefits listed under Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN; however, they will retain the 1,000,000 access control transactions per month benefit provided under the original offer
6. One Team Foundation Server CAL per subscription
7. Feature Pack availability varies by subscription level
8. Equivalent to Microsoft Expression Studio 4 Ultimate, but does not include SketchFlow
9. To learn more about Visual Studio 2010 Feature Packs, see Visual Studio 2010 Feature Packs
10. Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2 is a cumulative feature pack that extends testing, code visualization and modeling capabilities in Visual Studio 2010
11. Lab Management requires the Lab Management Feature Pack, which is only available to MSDN Subscribers
12. When you install Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone, you also get Windows Phone Emulator, Expression Blend, XNA Game Studio, samples, and other SDK components. If Visual Studio 2010 Professional or higher is already installed on your development computer, an add-in for Visual Studio 2010 Professional is automatically installed as well. With the exception of a few debugging features, the add-in provides Windows Phone application development support equivalent to Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone.
13. To create cloud applications on Windows Azure, you must also install the Windows Azure SDK and Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio.
For a detailed list of software available to MSDN Subscribers, download Products by Benefit Level.
For detailed system requirements for Lab Management, see Visual Studio Test Professional System Requirements.
For detailed system requirements for Team Foundation Server 2010, see Team Foundation Server 2010 System Requirements.
For detailed system requirements for Team Explorer Everywhere 2010, see Team Explorer Everywhere 2010 System Requirements.
