What's new in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
IntelliTrace™ Eliminates ‘No Repro’
Step through code that was previously executed on the same or another machine in order to identify what happened during the code execution and significantly cut down on time spent reproducing a bug.
Understand Existing Architectures
The Architecture Explorer and UML sequence diagrams help you explore and understand your existing code assets and their inter-dependencies.
Ensure Architectural Compliance
Use layer diagraming to define and communicate logical application architecture and optionally enforce architecture rules with check-in policies as code is created.
Profile Application Performance
Measure the performance of your applications and locate performance bottlenecks in CPU utilization, Memory consumption, database interactions, Jscript/Ajax call patterns and concurrency synchronization. Use the performance profiler in conjunction with Load Testing to identify performance bottlenecks under stress and load.
Discover Common Coding Errors
Code Analysis is now simple to configure with customizeable rule sets that can be targeted at specific scenarios or areas of emphasis. Enforce rule sets with the code analysis checkin policy to reduce common coding errors in application or database code before they get into production.
Prototype User Interface Ideas Quickly
By using SketchFlow in Expression Studio you can quickly deliver a functioning prototype that looks and feels like handwritten mockups.
Build Collaboration Solutions on Microsoft SharePoint®
New support for SharePoint development, including tooling for Web Parts, Lists, Workflows, and Events and more, so you can bring great new customized collaboration tools to your company.
Automate User Interface Testing
Use Coded User Interface Tests to automate the testing of UI elements in your applications. Visual Studio 2010 automatically generates test code that can be executed manually or incorporated as part of your build process to automate UI regression testing.
Create, Manage and Execute Tests
Test and Lab Manager lets you easily define your testing effort for a specific iteration in your project, run manual tests and measure your progress. In addition to creating and managing test assets like plans, suites and test cases you can also create and manage virtual lab configurations for your test environments.
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