Visual Studio 2005 family: the differences

This table on MSDN show the differences between the different members of the VS 2005 family.

Few things I noticed:

1 - Visual Express don't have a full support for add-ins. If it's true it a big miss, regarding the fact that Microsoft want to target a bigger developer base.

2 - XML support only for Visual Studio Express, and no support for XSLT in this version. Again if it's confirmed this is really a shame. For me the two should be present in every versions.

3 - Probably a misspelling (Well I hope so) but no deployment support for Visual Studio Express ?!? This should be included in all versions. If not, I don't get it. How you supposed to deploy easily ?

The refactoring limitations in VS Express shouldn't be a problem, but it could be interesting to know which ones have been removed.

The Visual Studio Team System (as expected) will be the most advanced version, with Project Management, code profiling and unit testing.

 

2 Comments

  • you can't expect to get everything for (almost) nothing. Otherwise there's no need for more expensive versions

  • You cannot have you cake an eat it too.



    The express products are about winning .Net mindshare and selling copies of W2Kx server. Period. End of story. MS has no altruistic motives in this.

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