The Visual Studio Product Line
by Mike Snell, Lars Powers
Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Unleashed, Third Edition
- About This eBook
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents at a Glance
- Table of Contents
- About the Authors
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- We Want to Hear from You!
- Reader Services
- Introduction
- Part I: Introducing Visual Studio 2015
- Chapter 1. A Quick Tour of Visual Studio 2015
- Chapter 2. The Visual Studio IDE
- Chapter 3. The .NET Languages
- What’s New in C# 6.0 and VB 14
- Language Primer
- Language Features
- Infer a Variable’s Data Type Based on Assignment
- Create an Object and Initialize Its Values (Object Initializers)
- Define a Collection and Initialize Its Values
- Creating an Instance of a Nonexistent Class
- Add Methods to Existing Classes (Extension Methods)
- Add Business Logic to Generated Code (Partial Methods)
- Access and Query Data Using the .NET Languages
- Write Simple Unnamed Functions Within Your Code (Lambda Expressions)
- Splitting an Assembly Across Multiple Files
- Working with XML Directly Within Your Code (VB Only)
- Removing Unused Arguments from Event Handlers (VB Only)
- Creating an Automatically Implemented Property
- Dropping the Underscore in VB for Line Continuation
- Working with Dynamic Languages/Objects
- Covariance and Contravariance
- Asynchronous Programming
- The .NET Framework
- Summary
- Part II: An In-Depth Look at the IDE
- Chapter 4. Solutions and Projects
- Chapter 5. Browsers and Explorers
- Chapter 6. Introducing the Editors and Designers
- Part III: Working with the Visual Studio Tools
- Chapter 7. Working with Visual Studio’s Productivity Aids
- Chapter 8. Testing Code
- Chapter 9. Refactoring Code
- Chapter 10. Debugging Code
- Chapter 11. Deploying Code
- Chapter 12. Developing Applications in the Cloud with Windows Azure
- Chapter 13. Working with Databases
- Part IV: Extending Visual Studio
- Part V: Building Web Applications
- Chapter 17. Building Modern Websites with ASP.NET 5
- Chapter 18. Using JavaScript and Client-Side Frameworks
- Chapter 19. Building and Consuming Services with Web API and WCF
- Part VI: Building Windows Client Apps
- Chapter 20. Building Windows Forms Applications
- Chapter 21. Building WPF Applications
- Chapter 22. Developing Office Business Applications
- Part VII: Creating Mobile Apps
- Chapter 23. Developing Windows Store Applications
- Chapter 24. Creating Windows Phone Applications
- Chapter 25. Writing Cross-Platform Mobile Applications with Apache Cordova
- Index
- Code Snippets
The Visual Studio Product Line
There are three primary editions of the Visual Studio product: Community, Professional with MSDN, and Enterprise with MSDN. Development teams need to understand which tool they need for their development projects and price point. At a high level, the primary tool editions are differentiated as follows.
Visual Studio Community—A free, full-featured version of the development tool for building Web, Windows, Desktop, and mobile applications. This new version of the tool is targeted at developers learning to code, doing open source projects, and taking academic courses.
Professional with MSDN—Includes the core features of the IDE to build applications of all types on all .NET languages. Targets professional developers and team looking to build commercial or enterprise software. Includes support for writing, debugging, and testing code.
Enterprise with MSDN—Formerly the Ultimate edition, the Enterprise edition includes the core IDE features along with many advanced tools for building applications. It builds on the Professional edition to add additional load testing support, architecture tools, lab management, release management, and more.
You can see a detailed product comparison at https://www.visualstudio.com/products/compare-visual-studio-2015-products-vs.
There is a peripheral version of the Visual Studio product called Test Professional. It is a tool targeted directly at testers. You will learn more about all this product in the coming sections.
Visual Studio Code
Microsoft released another development tool alongside Visual Studio 2015. This tool is called Visual Studio Code. It is a free tool that allows developers to write web applications on Windows, Mac, and Linux. The .NET Framework went cross-platform; this is the tool that allows developers to work on these other platforms. You can find more information at https://code.visualstudio.com//.
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