Visual Studio 2010 - differences between .NET (managed) and C++ (unmanaged)
Thx to Chris Birmele, here is a view of the main capabilities in Visual Studio 2010. All of them are supported for .NET development and only the ones with Yes are for unamanaged (C++).
| Product Features (VS 2010 Ultimate) | |
| Team Foundation Server | |
| Version Control | Yes |
| Work Item Tracking | Yes |
| Build Automation | Yes |
| Team Portal | Yes |
| Reporting & Business Intelligence | Yes |
| Agile Planning Workbook | Yes |
| Test Case Management | Yes |
| Visual Studio Team Explorer 2010 | Yes |
| Development Platform Support | |
| Windows Development | Yes |
| Web Development | N/A |
| Office and SharePoint Development | N/A |
| Cloud Development | N/A |
| Customizable Development Experience | Yes |
| Testing | |
| Unit Testing | No |
| Code Coverage | No |
| Test Impact Analysis | No |
| Coded UI Test | No |
| Web Performance Testing | N/A |
| Load Testing | N/A |
| Database Development | |
| Database Deployment | Yes |
| Database Change Management | Yes |
| Database Unit Testing | Yes |
| Database Test Data Generation | Yes |
| Debugging & Diagnostics | |
| "Pinnable" DataTips for easier data inspection | N/A |
| Post-mortem debugging support for .NET (dump debugging) | No |
| Breakpoint improvements (search in Breakpoints window, label, import/export) | No |
| New WPF visualizer | N/A |
| Enhancements for debugging multi-threaded applications (Parallel Stack and Tasks) | Yes |
| 64-bit support for mixed-mode debugging | Yes |
| Static Code Analysis | Yes |
| Code Metrics | No |
| Profiling | Yes |
| IntelliTrace (Historical Debugger) | No |
| Architecture and Modeling | |
| UML® & Layer diagram viewer | Yes |
| Architecture Explorer | Yes |
| UML 2.0 Compliant Diagrams (Activity, Use Case, Sequence, Class, Component) | Yes |
| Layer Diagram and Dependency Validation | No |
| Lab Management | |
| Test and Lab Manager | Yes |
| Virtual environment setup & tear down | Yes |
| Test Case Management | Yes |
| Manual Test Execution | Yes |
| Manual Test Record & Playback | Yes |
| Lab Management Configuration | Yes |