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What is Visual Studio?

Visual Studio 2010 enables individual developers and teams to build applications across all the Microsoft platforms. From design and development, through to testing and deployment, Visual Studio 2010 handles it all. Support for a wide range of technologies means that you can use one familiar IDE and code base for all your development needs. Visual Studio 2010 enables you to code natively using Visual C++ or on the .NET framework through Visual Basic .NET, C# and F# and has full support for building database applications using Microsoft SQL Server and other platforms.

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Through to 31 March 2012, you can attach an MSDN subscription to your current Visual Studio licences not covered by Software Assurance with savings of up to 15% on Visual Studio 2010 Premium with MSDN subscription licence and Software Assurance packs (L&SA) and up to 35% on Visual Studio 2010 Professional with MSDN subscription licence and Software Assurance packs.

To be eligible for these savings, you must have an existing volume licence for one of the following: Visual Studio 2008 Professional, Visual Studio 2008 Professional with MSDN (active), Visual Studio 2010 Professional, Visual Studio Professional with MSDN/ Professional with MSDN Professional/ Professional with MSDN Premium where the MSDN subscription expired prior to July 1 2011.

This offer is available for commercial, academic and government organisations on Microsoft Open Licence, Open Value, Select and Enterprise Agreement licensing programmes. For more information, and to take advantage of this offer, please contact us.


Why buy from Grey Matter?

  • Knowledgeable sales team - Our sales team are Microsoft certified to ensure they can offer you the best purchasing advice on your Microsoft software.

  • Microsoft Gold Certified Partner - We are a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, an accreditation which recognises our close working relationship with Microsoft.

  • Competitive pricing - We regularly check our pricing against our competitors to ensure we can offer you the best price possible.

  • Software licensing advice - We provide software and licensing advice to ensure you have the right software at the right price, correctly licensed.

  • Not just a Visual Studio reseller - We supply many other developer tools and software, plus have a dedicated software sourcing team. Just get in touch for a quote.

  • Multiple purchasing options - Visual Studio is available to purchase on the Microsoft Open License and Open Value licensing schemes as well as a boxed product, Grey Matter is able to advise you on the right option for your business.

Why upgrade to Visual Studio 2010?

+ New language features:
  • Enhanced dynamic support in C# and VB.NET make it easier to interoperate with languages such as IronPython, IronRuby and COM

  • Late binding and named and optional parameters make it easier to work with the Microsoft Office COM APIs

  • General language improvements such as auto-implemented properties, collection initialisers and array literals

  • VC++ features support for Windows 7 including multi-touch, enhanced support for the C++0x standard and more

+ Improved Web development:
  • New code snippets and improved IntelliSense make it easier to code for the Web

  • Quicker, easier deployment of applications to any IIS Web server with the new Web Packages functionality

+ New language - F#:
  • F# is a functional language ideal for mathematical and concurrent programming

  • Implicitly typed but with all the safety of a statically typed language

  • Includes a console within Visual Studio for executing F# statements on the fly

  • Supports all the functionality of the whole .NET framework

+ Parallel programming:
  • New version of LINQ – PLINQ (Parallel Language Integrated Query) – provides a parallel version of LINQ to Objects

  • New Concurrency Runtime framework provides concurrent programming capabilities for VC++

  • New debugging and profiling tools help you debug parallel code

+ Improved IDE:
  • The IDE features an enhanced appearance with a cleaner interface and improved readability – plus multi-monitor support

  • Easier coding with search-as-you-type IntelliSense on everything from file names to comments

+ And more:
  • Lab management functionality for quickly creating virtual machines for application testing (available in Ultimate/Test Professional - requires System Center Virtual Machine Manager)

  • Azure tools for deploying applications to Windows Azure

  • Enhanced WPF and Silverlight visual designer

  • And much more…

Why get an MSDN subscription?

An MSDN subscription provides a wide-range of benefits including:

  • Software - download over 11 terabytes of Microsoft software for development and testing purposes

  • E-learning - depending on your subscription level, you may be eligible to choose up to 2 Microsoft e-learning courses from an extensive library

  • Priority Support - Microsoft engineers are on hand to answer your questions in the MSDN forums within two business day

  • Technical Support - depending on your subscription level you may be eligible for up to 4 technical support incidents

  • Online Concierge - get chat-based help on finding specific information on msdn.com

  • MSDN Magazine - get a free digital copy of the MSDN Magazine every month, packed full of useful development advice

  • Windows Azure - depending on your subscription level you may be eligible to receive free Azure hours every month.



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