This was a busy week for new stuff Microsoft. Wednesday Oct 21 was the official release day for Windows 7. It also was the first day of public availability for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 from MDSN downloads.
You can download Beta 2 here http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010/default.mspx. Beta 2 includes a go live license. If you do consider moving toward production with Beta 2, check out Jeff Beehler’s blog “Going Live” with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2.
There are some significant product license changes. Application lifecycle management moves closer to full integration into the Visual Studio product stack and the stack has been simplified to 4 basic developer choices: Express, Professional, Premium, and Ultimate. The Express configuration is pretty much unchanged, here’s the overview for Professional and above.
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Visual Studio 2010
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VS 2010 Professional with MSDN
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VS 2010 Premium with MSDN
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VS 2010 Ultimate with MSDN
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Product Features
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Team Foundation Server
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Version Control
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x
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x
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x
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Work Item Tracking
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x
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x
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x
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Build Automation
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x
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x
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x
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Team Portal
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x
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x
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x
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Reporting & Business Intelligence
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x
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x
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x
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Agile Planning Workbook
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x
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x
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x
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Test Case Management
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x
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x
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x
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Visual Studio Team Explorer 2010
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x
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x
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x
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Development Platform Support
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Windows Development
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x
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x
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x
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Web Development
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x
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x
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x
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Office and SharePoint Development
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x
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x
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x
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Cloud Development
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x
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x
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x
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Customizable Development Experience
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x
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x
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x
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Testing
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Unit Testing
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x
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x
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x
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Code Coverage
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x
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x
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Test Imapct Analysis
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x
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x
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Coded UI Test
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x
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x
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Web Performance Testing
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x
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Load Testing
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x
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Database Development
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Database Deployment
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x
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x
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Database Change Management
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x
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x
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Database Unit Testing
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x
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x
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Database Test Data Generation
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x
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x
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Debugging & Diagnostics
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Static Code Analysis
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x
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x
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Code Metrics
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x
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x
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Profiling
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x
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x
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IntelliTrace (Historical Debugger)
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x
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Architecture and Modeling
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UML® & Layer diagram viewer
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x
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x
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Architecture Explorer
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x
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UML 2.0 Compliant Diagrams (Activity, Use Case, Sequence, Class, Component)
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x
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Layer Diagram and Dependency Validation
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x
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Lab Management
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Test and Lab Manager
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x
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Virtual environment setup & tear down
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x
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Test Case Management
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x
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Manual Test Execution
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x
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Manual Test Record & Playback
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x
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Lab Management Configuration
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x
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You may notice that the Team System name has been dropped, it’s now just part of what you get. Teams of all sizes now have team development tooling available with Visual Studio Professional and above.
Also, we now have a launch date for Visual Studio 2010 on March 22, 2010.