Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate = $11899

[foxhound_97]

http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate edition costs R87,320.57 :wtf:

Anybody know of a company running on 2010 Ultimate?

 

[Bizkit87]

well, if you compare that to other software suites companies are running, this is small change..

 

[foxhound_97]

I know you can get an Action Pack from Microsoft that includes Visual Studio, but its not the Ultimate edition. I guess they probably have something with ultimate that is a lot cheaper...

 

[Keeper]

well, if you compare that to other software suites companies are running, this is small change..

SoftImage|XSI's one package - not even a suit, just an add-on, used to cost well over $100,000

11k is still lightweight.

and when you consider custom built software for a big company........eish.

 

[foxhound_97]

well, if you compare that to other software suites companies are running, this is small change..

Buying licenses for a team of 20 developers = R1 746 400

Considering Microsoft brings out a new IDE on average of 2 years, it can get quite expensive.

SAP can easily cost over $400 000(US). There's loads of expensive software out there. I was just asking if anyone knows of VS2010 Ultimate in a production environment.

 

[James]

I saw it on special at tpb, much cheaper

 

[foxhound_97]

Their prices are criminal, one could almost say its a steal

 

[James]

Not being part of the .net world, is there a really good free IDE available? For instance you have Zend Studio premium IDE for php but then you have Netbeans which does a perfect job and it is free. Does .net have the same?

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

Emacs & GIT, what else do you need.

 

[foxhound_97]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SharpDevelop

Haven't used it in 2 years, no idea what its like these days. I remember being able to write some decent apps in it, its just missing a lot of the tools in Visual Studio.

 

[Guest 20221009]

Not being part of the .net world, is there a really good free IDE available? For instance you have Zend Studio premium IDE for php but then you have Netbeans which does a perfect job and it is free. Does .net have the same?

Monodevelop

 

[*SynergyX*]

we alreay got it in the post as part of our microsoft agreement....but due to compatibility..we wont really even use it for awhile.

 

[WiT8litZ]

We use it. Started out a new project in it and I must say, it will be a sad day to have to go back to 2008.

Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate + ReSharper 5.1 = win

 

[KobusDJ]

I have a copy. It is included in our volume license agreement.

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

Not an insult but rather trying to understand, but does Ultimate offer the others don't? I'm not a .NET developer so rather clueless on this as I want to do some .NET development to see if I like it.

 

[foxhound_97]

Check their site if you want http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products

Ultimate just has some insane testing/debugging/design tools.

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

Well for testing I use UNIT-TESTING so see no value in my coding style for debugging and testing tools then. I anyway get access to Dreamspark so I will just download Visual Studio Proffesional 2010

 

[jeanres]

@cbrunsdonza you don't need testing tools? Unit testing is but one part of test driven development.

 

[diabolus]

Well keep in mind "Ultimate" come with things like Team Foundation SERVER which is like an entire source control suite, that alone is probably ramping the price up dramatically. So buying Ultimate for "solo development" is like buying Sharepoint Server when all you want is Microsoft Excel...

http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products#compareTable

If all you want to do is do C#/VB/Silverlight coding on a small scale, you really don't need all that stuff. You'll probably take longer to set it all up than just delivering the [smaller] application....

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

@cbrunsdonza you don't need testing tools? Unit testing is but one part of test driven development.

Well I only develop using unit-tests and my method of test-driven development. I write my own unit-tests anyway.