Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate

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Please note that Visual Studio Ultimate with MSDN and Visual Studio Premium with MSDN subscriptions have been combined in a new Visual Studio Enterprise subscription.

Both Ultimate and Premium subscribers will be automatically converted to Enterprise subscribers.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate Specification

  Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 Visual Studio Premium 2013 Visual Studio Professional 2013 Visual Studio Test Professional 2013
New in Visual Studio 2013
Peek Definition • • • •
O365 Cloud Business Apps • • • •
Work Item Charting • • Read Only Read Only
Improved Web-based Test Case Management • •   •
Team Room • •   •
Agile Portfolio Management • •   •
Release Management
Deployment to target servers licensed separately.		 • •   •
Coded UI Testing for XAML Windows Store 8.1 apps • •    
CodeLens (Code Information Indicators) •      
IntelliTrace Performance Indicators •      
Memory Dump Analyzer •      
Cloud-based load testing powered by Team Foundation Service •      
Debugging and Diagnostics
IntelliTrace (Historical Debugging) •      
IntelliTrace in Production •      
Code Metrics • •    
Graphics Debugging • • •  
Advanced Web Debugging • • •  
Static Code Analysis • • •  
Debugger • • •  
Windows 8 Simulator • • •  
Profiling Includes Tier Interaction Profiling Includes Tier Interaction Profiling •  
Windows Phone Emulator • • •  
Testing Tools
Web Performance Testing •      
Load Testing •      
Microsoft Fakes (Unit Test Isolation) •      
Code Coverage • •    
Coded UI Testing • •    
Manual Testing • •   •
Exploratory Testing • •   •
Test Case Management • •   •
Fast Forward for Manual Testing • •   •
Lab Management • •   •
Extensible Testing Framework • • •  
Unit Testing • • •  
Integrated Development Environment
Code Clone • •    
LightSwitch • • •  
One-Click Web Deployment • • •  
Extensible WPF-Based Environment • • •  
Model Resource Viewer • • •  
Multi-Targeting • • •  
Blend for Visual Studio • • •  
JavaScript and jQuery Support • • •  
Project & Solution Compatibility with Visual Studio 2010 SP1 • • •  
Multiple Monitor Support • • •  
Development Platform Support
Windows Desktop Development • • •  
Windows Store Application (including ARM) Development • • •  
Web Development • • •  
Windows Phone Development • • •  
Office and SharePoint Development • • •  
Cloud Development • • •  
Customizable Development Experience • • •  
Architecture and Modeling
Architecture Explorer •      
Architecture and Layer Diagrams •      
Architecture Validation • •    
UML® 2.0 Compliant Diagrams
(Activity, Use Case, Sequence, Class, and Component)		 • Read-Only Diagrams    
Visualize Code with Dependency Graphs
(By Assembly, By Namespace, and By Class)		 • Read-Only Diagrams Read-Only Diagrams  
Lab Management
Virtual Environment Setup & Tear Down • •   •
Provision Environment from Template • •   •
Checkpoint Environment • •   •
Team Foundation Server
Backlog Management • •   •
Sprint Planning • •   •
Agile Task boards • • • •
Exception Analytics • • • •
SharePoint Integration (Team Project Portal)
Microsoft SharePoint Server licensed separately		 • • Requires full Team Foundation Server and CAL which are included with MSDN Subscription or available for purchase separately •
Reporting & BI • • Requires full Team Foundation Server and CAL which are included with MSDN Subscription or available for purchase separately •
Project & Project Server integration
Microsoft Project and Project Server licensed separately		 • • Requires full Team Foundation Server and CAL which are included with MSDN Subscription or available for purchase separately •
System Center Integration
Microsoft System Center licensed separately		 • • Requires full Team Foundation Server and CAL which are included with MSDN Subscription or available for purchase separately •
Version Control • • • •
Work Item Tracking • • • •
Build Automation • • • •
Collaboration
PowerPoint Storyboarding • •   •
Request and Manage Feedback
End users can use the free Feedback Client to submit feedback to TFS, and access MSDN software to review the app and provide feedback.		 • •   •
Code Review • •    
Task Suspend/Resume • •    
Team Explorer • • • •
Team Explorer Everywhere for TFS (3rd-Party Development Tools Support) • • • •
Software and Services for Production Use
Ultimate Feature Packs •      
Team Foundation Server • • Requires MSDN Subscription •
Team Foundation Server CAL • • One Team Foundation Server CAL per subscription •
Office Professional Plus • •    
Project Professional • •    
Visio Premium • •    
Windows Azure
Windows Azure benefits vary by offering		 • • •  
Software for Development and Testing
Windows, Windows Server • • Requires MSDN Subscription •
Microsoft SQL Server • • Requires MSDN Subscription •
Microsoft Office • •    
Microsoft Dynamics • •    
All other Microsoft servers (SharePoint, Exchange, etc.) • •    
Other Benefits
Technical Support Incidents 4 4 2
Requires MSDN Subscription		 2
Microsoft E-Learning Collections (per year) 2 2 1
Requires MSDN Subscription		 1