Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional is an integrated environment that simplifies the basic tasks of creating, debugging and deploying applications. Unleash your creativity with powerful design surfaces and the ability to bring your designers and developer together to bring your vision to life. Work within a personalized environment, targeting a growing number of platforms, including Silverlight, 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..

Top 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 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.

System Requirements:

Processor Required

• 1.6 GHz or faster

Operating system

• Windows 7 (both 32 & 64 bit versions, excluding Starter). Additional versions of Windows are supported, please see Other below for the full requirements.

Hard disk

• 3 GB (5400 RPM)

Memory Required

• 1024 MB RAM (1.5 GB if running in a virtual machine)

Memory Recommended

• 1 GB (32 bit) or 2 GB (64 bit) RAM (add 512 MB if running in a virtual machine)

Video card

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

Media drive

• DVD-ROM Drive

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

• Windows XP (x86) with Service Pack 3—all editions except Starter Edition
• Windows Vista (x86 & x64) with Service Pack 2—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