Compare Visual Studio 2015 Offerings
| Visual Studio Community |
Visual Studio Professional |
Visual Studio Enterprise |
Visual Studio Test Professional |
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| Individual Developers |  |
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| Classroom Learning | |
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| Academic Research | |
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| Contributing to Open Source Projects | |
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| Non-enterprise organizations 12, for up to 5 users | |
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| Enterprise | |
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| Debugging and Diagnostics | |
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| IntelliTrace (Historical Debugging) | |
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| Code Metrics | |
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| .NET Memory Dump Analysis | |
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| Graphics Debugging | |
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| Browser Link | |
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| Static Code Analysis | |
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| Code Map Debugger Integration | |
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| Debugger | |
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| Performance and Diagnostics Hub | |
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| Windows Simulator | |
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| Windows Phone Emulator | |
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| Visual Studio Emulator for Android | |
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| Testing Tools |  |
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| Web Load & Performance Testing | |
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| IntelliTest | |
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| Microsoft Fakes (Unit Test Isolation) | |
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| Code Coverage | |
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| Coded UI Testing | |
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| Manual Testing | |
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| Exploratory Testing | |
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| Test Case Management | |
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| Fast-forward for Manual Testing | |
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| Extensible Testing Framework | |
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| Unit Testing | |
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| Integrated Development Environment | |
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| CodeLens | |
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| Peek Definition | |
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| Code Clone | |
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| Refactoring | |
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| One-Click Web Deployment | |
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| Extensible Environment | |
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| Model Resource Viewer | |
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| Multi-Targeting | |
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| Blend | |
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| JavaScript and jQuery Support | |
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| Project & Solution Compatibility with Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and Visual Studio 2012 | |
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| Development Platform Support | |
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| Windows Desktop | |
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| Windows Phone and Store Apps | |
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| Universal Windows Apps | |
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| Web (ASP.NET) | |
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| Office 365, Office, and SharePoint | 14 |
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| Office 365 Cloud Business Apps | 14 |
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| Business Applications (LightSwitch) | 14 |
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| Cloud (Microsoft Azure) | |
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| SQL Server (SSDT) | |
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| Apache Cordova | |
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| C++ Cross-Platform Library Development | |
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| Python | |
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| Node.js | |
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| Xamarin Mobile Development | |
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| Share code between Android, iOS, and Windows | |
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| Native iOS and Android UI Designers | |
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| Xamarin.Forms | |
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| Embedded Assemblies | |
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| Live Inspection Preview | |
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| Xamarin Profiler Preview | |
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| Architecture and Modeling | |
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| Architectural Layer Diagrams | |
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| Architecture Validation | |
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| UML® 2.0 Compliant Diagrams (Activity, Use Case, Sequence, Class, and Component) | |
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| Visualize solutions with Dependency Graphs and Code Maps | 3 |
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| Lab Management | |
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| Virtual environment setup & teardown | |
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| Provision environment from template | |
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| Checkpoint environment | |
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| Team Foundation Server features | |
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| Web-based Test Execution | |
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| Web-based Test Case Management | |
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| Agile Portfolio Management | |
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| Team (Chat) Rooms | |
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| Work Item Charting | 2 |
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| Request and Manage Feedback | |
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| Release Management | |
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| Backlog Management | |
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| Sprint Planning | |
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| Kanban board | |
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| Agile Task boards | |
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| SharePoint integration (Team Project Portal) 4 | |
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| Reporting & BI | |
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| Project and Project Server integration 5 | |
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| System Center integration 6 | |
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| Version Control using TFVC Repositories | |
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| Version Control using Git-based Repositories | |
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| Code comments on Changesets or Git commits | |
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| Work Item Tracking | |
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| Build Automation | |
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| Collaboration Tools | |
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| PowerPoint Storyboarding | |
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| Code Review | |
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| Task Suspend/Resume | |
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| Team Explorer | |
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| Team Explorer Everywhere (third-party development tools support) | |
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| Team Collaboration Benefits | Included with all subscriptions | ||||
| Team Foundation Server license | |
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| Team Foundation Server user CAL | |
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| Can be added to unlimited Visual Studio Team Services accounts for free | |
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| Visual Studio Team Services Test Manager | |
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| Visual Studio Team Services Package Management | |
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| Subscriber Benefits | Included with annual cloud subscriptions and standard subscriptions | ||||
| Microsoft Azure | $50 credit per month | $150 credit per month | $50 credit per month | $100 credit per month | |
| Xamarin Test Cloud Discount | 16 |
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| Xamarin Studio 17 | |
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| Xamarin University On-Demand 18 | |
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| eDevTech SmartOffice4TFS and inteGREAT4TFS | 15 |
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| Microsoft Office Professional Plus (full use rights) | |
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| Windows, Windows Server | |
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| Windows Embedded | |
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| Microsoft SQL Server | |
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| Microsoft SharePoint | |
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| Microsoft Exchange | |
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| Microsoft Dynamics | |
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| All other Microsoft software | |
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| Pluralsight training | 30 courses for 12 months 11 |
45 courses for 12 months 11 |
30 courses for 12 months 11 |
45 courses for 12 months 11 |
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| Windows developer account | |
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| Office 365 Developer Subscription | |
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| Power BI Pro | |
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| Technical support incidents | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | |
| Priority support in MSDN Forums | |
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| Priority support in select TechNet Forums | |
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| Microsoft e-learning collections (per year) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| MSDN Magazine (print or early digital access) | |
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| Online Chat | |
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| Visual Studio partner offers | |
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| Visual Studio Dev Essentials Benefits | Free for all developers 19 | ||||
| Microsoft Azure | $25 credit per month for 12 months | ||||
| Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Edition | |
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| Microsoft R Server Developer Edition | |
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| Xamarin University On-Demand | |
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| Pluralsight training | 3-month subscription | ||||
| WintellectNOW training | 3-month subscription | ||||
| Parallels Desktop® for Mac Pro edition | 3-month subscription | ||||
| Parallels® Access | 3-month subscription | ||||
| HackHands Live Programming Help | $25 credit | ||||
| Priority support in select Microsoft forums | |
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Community | Professional | Enterprise | Test Professional | MSDN Platforms |
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| Supported Usage Scenarios + | |
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| Individual Developers | |
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| Classroom Learning | |
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| Academic Research | |
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| Contributing to Open Source Projects | |
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| Non-enterprise organizations 12, for up to 5 users | |
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| Enterprise | |
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| Debugging and Diagnostics + | |
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| IntelliTrace in Production | |
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| IntelliTrace (Historical Debugging) | |
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| IntelliTrace Performance Indicators | |
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| Code Metrics | |
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| .NET Memory Dump Analysis | |
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| Graphics Debugging | |
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| Browser Link | |
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| Static Code Analysis | |
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| Code Map Debugger Integration | |
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| Debugger | |
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| Performance and Diagnostics Hub | |
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| Windows Simulator | |
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| Windows Phone Emulator | |
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| Visual Studio Emulator for Android | |
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| Testing Tools + | |
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| Web Load & Performance Testing | |
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| IntelliTest | |
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| Microsoft Fakes (Unit Test Isolation) | |
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| Code Coverage | |
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| Coded UI Testing | |
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| Manual Testing | |
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| Exploratory Testing | |
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| Test Case Management | |
|
|
||
| Fast-forward for Manual Testing | |
|
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||
| Extensible Testing Framework | |
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| Unit Testing | |
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| Integrated Development Environment + | |
|
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| CodeLens | |
|
|||
| Peek Definition | |
|
|
||
| Code Clone | |
||||
| Refactoring | |
|
|
||
| One-Click Web Deployment | |
|
|
||
| Extensible Environment | |
|
|
||
| Model Resource Viewer | |
|
|
||
| Multi-Targeting | |
|
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||
| Blend | |
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| JavaScript and jQuery Support | |
|
|
||
| Project & Solution Compatibility with Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and Visual Studio 2012 | |
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| Development Platform Support + | |
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| Windows Desktop | |
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| Windows Phone and Store Apps | |
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| Universal Windows Apps | |
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| Web (ASP.NET) | |
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| Office 365, Office, and SharePoint | 14 |
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| Office 365 Cloud Business Apps | 14 |
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| Business Applications (LightSwitch) | 14 |
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| Cloud (Microsoft Azure) | |
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| SQL Server (SSDT) | |
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| Apache Cordova | |
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| C++ Cross-Platform Library Development | |
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| Python | |
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| Node.js | |
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| Xamarin Mobile Development + | |
|
|
|
|
| Share Code between Android, iOS, and Windows | |
|
|
||
| Native iOS and Android UI Designers | |
|
|
||
| Xamarin.Forms | |
|
|
||
| Embedded Assemblies | |
||||
| Live Inspection Preview | |
||||
| Xamarin Profiler Preview | |
||||
| Xamarin Test Cloud Discount | 16 |
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| Architecture and Modeling + | |
|
|
|
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| Architectural Layer Diagrams | |
||||
| Architecture Validation | |
||||
| UML® 2.0 Compliant Diagrams (Activity, Use Case, Sequence, Class, and Component) | |
||||
| Visualize solutions with Dependency Graphs and Code Maps | 3 |
3 |
|
||
| Lab Management + | |
|
|
|
|
| Virtual environment setup & teardown | |
|
|
||
| Provision environment from template | |
|
|
||
| Checkpoint environment | |
|
|
||
| Team Foundation Server features + | |
|
|
|
|
| Web-based Test Execution | |
|
|
|
|
| Web-based Test Case Management | |
|
|
||
| Agile Portfolio Management | |
|
|
|
|
| Team (Chat) Rooms | |
|
|
|
|
| Work Item Charting | 2 |
|
|
|
|
| Request and Manage Feedback | |
|
|
|
|
| Release Management | |
|
|
||
| Backlog Management | |
|
|
|
|
| Sprint Planning | |
|
|
|
|
| Kanban board | |
|
|
|
|
| Agile Task boards | |
|
|
|
|
| SharePoint integration (Team Project Portal) 4 | |
|
|
|
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| Reporting & BI | |
|
|
|
|
| Project and Project Server integration 5 | |
|
|
|
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| System Center integration 6 | |
|
|
|
|
| Version Control using TFVC Repositories | |
|
|
|
|
| Version Control using Git-based Repositories | |
|
|
|
|
| Code comments on Changesets or Git commits | |
|
|
|
|
| Work Item Tracking | |
|
|
|
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| Build Automation | |
|
|
|
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| Collaboration Tools + | |
|
|
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| PowerPoint Storyboarding | |
|
|
|
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| Code Review | |
|
|
||
| Task Suspend/Resume | |
|
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||
| Team Explorer | |
|
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| Team Explorer Everywhere (third-party development tools support) | |
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| Team Collaboration Benefits + | Included with all subscriptions | Included with all subscriptions | Included with all subscriptions | Included with all subscriptions | Included with all subscriptions |
| Team Foundation Server license | |
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| Team Foundation Server user CAL | |
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| Can be added to unlimited Visual Studio Team Services accounts for free | |
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| Additional Visual Studio Team Services extensions: Test Manager | |
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| Subscriber Benefits + | Included with annual cloud subscriptions and standard subscriptions | Included with annual cloud subscriptions and standard subscriptions | Included with annual cloud subscriptions and standard subscriptions | Included with annual cloud subscriptions and standard subscriptions | Included with annual cloud subscriptions and standard subscriptions |
| Microsoft Azure | $50 credit per month | $150 credit per month | $50 credit per month | $100 credit per month | |
| eDevTech SmartOffice4TFS and inteGREAT4TFS | 15 |
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| Microsoft Office Professional Plus (full use rights) | |
||||
| Windows, Windows Server | |
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| Windows Embedded | |
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| Microsoft SQL Server | |
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| Microsoft SharePoint | |
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| Microsoft Exchange | |
|
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| Microsoft Dynamics | |
|
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| All other Microsoft software | |
|
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| Pluralsight training | 30 courses for 12 months 11 |
45 courses for 12 months 11 |
30 courses for 12 months 11 |
45 courses for 12 months 11 |
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| Windows developer account | |
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| Office 365 Developer Subscription | |
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| Power BI Pro | |
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| Technical support incidents | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | |
| Priority support in MSDN Forums | |
|
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| Priority support in select TechNet Forums | |
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| Microsoft e-learning collections (per year) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |
| MSDN Magazine (print or early digital access) | |
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| Online Chat | |
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| Visual Studio partner offers | |
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| Visual Studio Dev Essentials Benefits + | Free for all developers | Free for all developers | Free for all developers | Free for all developers | Free for all developers |
| Microsoft Azure | $25 credit per month for 12 months—coming soon | $25 credit per month for 12 months—coming soon | $25 credit per month for 12 months—coming soon | $25 credit per month for 12 months—coming soon | $25 credit per month for 12 months—coming soon |
| Pluralsight training | 3-month subscription | 3-month subscription | 3-month subscription | 3-month subscription | 3-month subscription |
| WintellectNOW training | 3-month subscription | 3-month subscription | 3-month subscription | 3-month subscription | 3-month subscription |
| Parallels Desktop® for Mac Pro edition | 3-month subscription | 3-month subscription | 3-month subscription | 3-month subscription | 3-month subscription |
| Parallels® Access | 3-month subscription | 3-month subscription | 3-month subscription | 3-month subscription | 3-month subscription |
| HackHands Live Programming Help | $25 credit | $25 credit | $25 credit | $25 credit | $25 credit |
| Priority support in select Microsoft forums | |
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| Xamarin University On-Demand | |
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Footnotes:
- Includes Tier Interaction Profiling.
- Read-Only.
- Can open diagrams generated in other Visual Studio editions in read-only mode.
- Microsoft SharePoint Server is licensed separately.
- Microsoft Project and Project Server are licensed separately.
- Microsoft System Center is licensed separately.
- Usage above your monthly allotment billed to your Microsoft Azure subscription.
- Microsoft Azure benefits vary by offering and include cloud use rights for select software. For more information, see the Microsoft Azure site and the Visual Studio and MSDN Licensing white paper. Pricing displayed in US dollars. View other currencies.
- Offers vary by subscription level. For more information, see Special Offers for MSDN Subscribers.
- Per subscription term.
- Available through November 18, 2016 or while supplies last. MPN, BizSpark, and DreamSpark subscribers do not receive Pluralsight benefits with their MSDN subscription.
- Enterprise organizations are defined as >250 PCs or > $1 Million US Dollars in annual revenue.
- Free for the first 5 users, see Visual Studio Team Services product page for details.
- Requires installation of the Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2015 that are available at RTM.
- Activate before 8/11/2016. Includes six month subscription, including upgrades and community support. Not available with BizSpark, DreamSpark or MCT subscriptions.
- 25% Xamarin Test Cloud Discount for VS Enterprise subscribers.
- No usage restrictions for Visual Studio Professional subscribers. Enterprise features available for Visual Studio Enterprise subscribers.
- Visual Studio Professional and Enterprise subscribers are able to access additional on-demand Xamarin University classes and materials beyond those included with the Dev Essentials program.
- To access free benefits, you need to sign up for Visual Studio Dev Essentials.
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- What are the licensing restrictions that come with my MSDN subscription? See our Software Use Rights.
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