Visual Studio Premium with MSDN

"A complete development toolset that simplifies the task of building applications"

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Premium is a complete toolset that simplifies application development for individuals or teams, allowing the delivery of scalable, high-quality applications. Whether writing code, building databases, testing, or debugging, you can increase your productivity using powerful tools that work the way you work.

Automate UI testing
Coded UI testing enables you to automate user interface testing in Web and Windows-based applications. These regression tests ensure that subsequent changes to the code do not break sections that already work.

Identify test impact from code changes
The code coverage tools in Visual Studio 2010 Premium ensure that you have tests that cover all of your code. Test impact analysis provides a list of recommended tests to run after a code change was made, enabling more accurate verification of your code thus reducing the number of tests you need to run.

Simplify database development
Apply the same lifecycle tools to your database development tasks that you do to your application code, including: offline development of database schema, the use of source code control to persist versioned database schema information, and participation in Agile or other process methodologies.

Discover common coding errors
Code analysis tools in Visual Studio 2010 Premium help you avoid common coding errors before they get into production. Code metrics measure the complexity of your code, ensuring that it is not complex and is maintainable.

Generate realistic test data
Sometimes, for privacy or other reasons, you don't want to use real data while developing. In Visual Studio 2010 Premium you can use database test data generation to fill a test database with test data that is appropriate for the schema of the database and that is related to the production data, but is not the actual data.

SYSTEM REQUIRMENTS

Required Processor - 1.6 GHz or faster

Required 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.

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 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

BEFORE YOU BUY
12-month subscription to MSDN includes access to the following:
• Visual Studio Team Foundation 2010 Server and one (1) Client Access License
• Microsoft Expression Studio 3
• Production use of Office Professional Plus 2010, Project Professional 2010, and Visio Premium 2010
• Windows Azure
• Windows and Windows Server operating systems
• Microsoft Dynamics and Microsoft SQL Server
• Four (4) technical support incidents
• Two (2) E-learning collections
• MSDN Flash newsletter
• Online Concierge
• Priority support in MSDN forums