The Visual Studio Product Line

With Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft has simplified the product line. There are now only three primary editions of the tool: professional, premium, and ultimate. This should make it easier to understand which tool you need for your development and price point. At a high level, these tools are differentiated as follows (each addition assumes an MSDN subscription, too):

Professional—Includes the basic features of the IDE to build applications of all types on all .NET languages. Includes support for writing, debugging, and testing code.

Premium—Builds on top of the Professional edition to include many features targeted toward the enterprise developer for testing and verifying code. Also includes database development ...

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