Visual Studio Professional Edition
10 Reasons to upgrade to Professional Edition
- Work with data in a unified and integrated way
- Be more productive by using a single approach to querying and manipulating data that’s integrated with the way you write code – in the programming language.
- Language-Integrated Query lets you use a single model to query and transform XML, SQL Server and object data, helping you focus on what you need the data to do rather than how you are going to access the data.
- Work with user interface designers
- Share user interface assets like design elements and controls with graphic designers that use Microsoft Expression®
- Both Microsoft Expression Web (ASP.NET)and Microsoft Expression BlendTM (WPF) supported
- Employ the latest web user interface techniques
- New support for web server communication techniques for AJAX/JSON enabled web sites
- New ASP.NET controls allow for better page management and templates
- RSS and REST natively supported by the Windows Communication Foundation
- Build stunning applications for windows vista
- Build powerful Windows based applications that take advantage of Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation to make your applications really stand out
- Smart Client application improvements improve deployment and disconnected scenarios
- Build higher quality applications with integrated unit testing
- Powerful unit testing tools are now integrated directly into Visual Studio Professional
- Great support for designing web applications
- Cascading Style sheet and HTML editors have been greatly enhanced for productivity
- Breakthrough JavaScript support within Visual Studio 2008 including IntelliSense and debugging
- Build applications that run on multiple versions of .net Framework
- With previous versions of Visual Studio, you could build applications that ran on only one version of the .NET Framework
- Now you can use one tool – Visual Studio 2008 and build applications that work with .NET Framework versions 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5
- Build office based applications
- Visual Studio 2008 Professional now includes Tools for Office development
- Built in tools help making Office “look and feel” interfaces like the ‘fluent ribbon’ quickly and easily
- Click-Once deployment for applications that you build for Office using Visual Studio 2008
- Workflow & communication tools
- Built in tools for developing business logic using Windows Workflow Foundation enables modeling of real-world business process in software. This includes a workflow designer, project templates and a workflow debugger.
- Built in tools for implementing communications software with Windows Communication Foundation providing support for a wide array of transports and protocols.
- Performance and stability across the board
- The highest quality Visual Studio release ever ensures that you are more productive during development