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Visual Studio 2010 Professional

 

 
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Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional is an integrated environment that helps simplify the basic tasks of creating, debugging, and deploying applications. Let Visual Studio 2010 Professional unleash your imagination and easily deliver your ideas.

  • Includes a no-obligation 12-month subscription to MSDN Essentials. See "Before you buy" for details.
  • If you're interested in buying more than five copies, or if you would like to purchase from a local reseller, learn more about volume licensing and reseller options.
  • Optimize your development environment with seamless multiple monitor support—visualize your code and debug on one monitor while viewing external help or a tools window on the secondary monitor
  • Easily build customized collaboration solutions with new support for SharePoint development, including numerous templates for SharePoint components, tooling for Web Parts, Lists, Workflows, and Events
  • Target multiple versions of the .NET framework with one tool, using enhanced multi-targeting support, with new reference assemblies and the most accurate IntelliSense ever
  • Build standards-based web applications with improved AJAX frameworks, core IntelliSense support for JavaScript, and the integration of the popular jQuery framework, an open-source JavaScript library
  • Be creative with rich user experiences for Windows, Office and the web—with Expression Studio, you can prototype your ideas quickly and bring your projects to life faster
  • Spend your time thinking about creative solutions rather than interpreting the code
  • Multi-core development support opens up new opportunities and capabilities for your applications
  • A single, integrated environment makes it easy for the whole team to collaborate
  • Make your development simple by using your existing skills and building on existing standards and frameworks
  • Manual and automated testing, and advanced debugging tools, help ensure you're building the right application, the right way
  • Integrated testing and debugging tools make it easier to find bugs and ensure high-quality solutions, so developers and testers can work together better
  • Spend your time thinking about creative solutions rather than interpreting the code
Required Processor
1.6 GHz or faster
Required Operating System
Windows 7 (both 32- and 64-bit versions, excluding Starter). Additional versions of Windows are supported, please see Other below for the full requirements.
Recommended Memory
1 GB (32 bit) or 2 GB (64 bit) RAM (add 512 MB if running in a virtual machine)
Required Memory
1024 MB RAM (1.5 GB if running in a virtual machine)
Required Hard Disk Space
3 GB (5400 RPM)
Required Media Drive
DVD-ROM Drive
 
Required Video Card
DirectX 9 capable video card running at 1024 x 768 or higher-resolution display
 
Other System Requirements
Visual Studio 2010 Professional 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

 

Includes a 12-month subscription to MSDN Essentials, which gives you a one-year test drive of the latest core Microsoft platforms and enhanced support from a professional community so you can target more platforms and fix issues quickly. Includes access to the latest versions of Windows and Windows Server, SQL Server, Online Concierge, and priority support in MSDN forums.