With Visual Studio 2010 right around the corner, what does Visual Studio 2008 Professional with MSDN Professional upgrade to in Visual Studio 2010? Do I get 2010 for free, if I buy this flavor of 2008 now?
If your subscription is still active when Visual Studio 2010 is released, then yes, you will be able to download Visual Studio 2010.
Microsoft has changed the MSDN licensing a bit; the "Visual Studio 2008 Professional with MSDN Professional" will just be called "Visual Studio 2010 Professional with MSDN."
There's a press release from Microsoft explaining the changes (MS Word Link).
If your MSDN subscription is active on April 12th, you'll end up receiving Visual Studio 2010 Premium with MSDN Professional through the "Ultimate Offer" that is available.
I have some more information about the editions available in a blog post that I wrote.
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I currently have Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate edition, so I was searching for the Ultimate edition for Visual Studio 2017, but I don't find it for download. The Compare Visual Studio 2017 Offerings or Visual Studio Downloads lists only Community, Professional and Enterprise editions.
I logged into my MSDN subscription and don't find it there either.
What happened to the Ultimate edition? Where can I download it from?
Based on the Visual Studio 2017 licensing whitepaper, and how subscription transitions from 2015 to 2017 are handled, it sounds like the equivalent 2017 version of Visual Studio to the one you want is Enterprise.
I need Visual Studio Professional 2010 and Visual Studio Professional 2015 on my system due to the requirements. I am buying VS professional 2015 with MSDN. Will it allow me to use both 2015 as well as pro 2010?
Yes, if you are licensed via MSDN, you can use each one.
Microsoft has published pricing on new purchases or upgrades from VS2013 with MSDN, but I haven't yet found any info covering upgrades from VS2013 which were purchased without MSDN e.g. VS 2013 Professional.
In my specific case, I want to upgrade from Visual Studio 2013 Professional to 2015 Professional. My only option appears to be purchasing 2015 with MSDN, with no consideration from my existing 2013 license. Am I overlooking something?
Update 2
I chatted with a Microsoft specialist. There is no upgrade pricing at this time and no upgrade pricing in the future, "that they are aware of".
Update 1
Visual Studio 2015 Professional stand alone is now available for $499. No word on upgrade pricing yet.
Original
It is now September 1st and the stand alone Visual Studio 2015 Professional is still not available.
I chatted with a Microsoft specialist. She confirmed that the stand alone Visual Studio 2015 Professional is not available and she did not have a release date.
The Buy Visual Studio and MSDN subscriptions page now lists the following:
Please note: purchases through the Microsoft Store In some markets will show prior version products (Visual Studio Ultimate with MSDN, Visual Studio Professional 2013), but are being updated through the end of October 2015. Please purchase Visual Studio Ultimate with MSDN or Visual Studio Premium with MSDN to get Visual Studio Enterprise with MSDN. Please wait to purchase Visual Studio Professional 2015 until it is available; purchasing Visual Studio 2013 will not entitle you to an upgrade to Visual Studio Professional 2015.
The Overview of Visual Studio 2015 Products page claims it is possible to purchase VS2015 Professional without MSDN, but really hides it well:
Visual Studio 2015 product offerings
Visual Studio Community
Visual Studio Professional with MSDN
Visual Studio Enterprise with MSDN
Additional offerings
Visual Studio Community 2015, Visual Studio Professional with MSDN, and Visual Studio Enterprise with MSDN are the primary offerings in the Visual Studio 2015 lineup. Additional offerings include5
Visual Studio Express 20154 editions
Visual Studio Test Professional with MSDN
Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2015
MSDN Platforms
And way down at the bottom of that page:
Visual Studio Professional 2015 standalone license, for customers interested in a non-subscription, IDE-only option
However, clicking through to Buy Visual Studio and MSDN subscriptions gives a better answer to your question:
Visual Studio Professional 2015 is now sold month-to-month as part of Visual Studio Online, just choose the Professional level after you set up billing on your Visual Studio Online account.
Starting September 1, 2015, you can also purchase Visual Studio Professional 2015 through the Microsoft Store or through software resellers.
So... all you need to do is wait.
Whether reduced upgrade pricing will be available for this edition does not appear to be answered yet though.
According to this page, "Visual Studio Community 2013 shares the same features as Visual Studio Professional 2013."
According to this page, Visual Studio Pro includes the Performance and Diagnostics Hub.
Based on those links, the Performance and Diagnostics Hub should be available in my copy of Visual Studio Community 2013, but it isn't. Was this moved to a somewhere else in the IDE or has it been removed since Community Edition was released?
I've seen How can I check what version/edition of Visual Studio is installed programmatically?, but the question remains, what will I find if the version installed is the 2010 Ultimate or Premium?
The answer selected as correct says "go to the registry and find":
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\[version]\Setup\VS\[edition]
Where [version] can be:
For Visual Studio 2005: 8.0
For Visual Studio 2008: 9.0
For Visual Studio 2010: 10.0
For Visual Studio 2012: 11.0
And [edition] can be:
For the Standard Edition: Std
For the Professional Edition: Pro
For the Team Edition for Software Architects: VSTA
For the Team Edition for Software Testers: VSTT
For the Team Edition for Software Developers: VSTD
For the Team Suite Edition: VSTS
For the Premier Partner Edition (2005) or Shell Edition (2008): IDE
For the Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System: VSTO
But it does not speak of Premium or Ultimate editions released (that I know of) for 2010 and 2012 at least.
Ok so I went to the registry on a machine with 2010 Ultimate and on
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\Setup\VS\
I've only found VSTS so, Ultimate is covered.
VSTS is the name of Ultimate in the registry
(But premium is still a question).
(And that's why this isnt an accepted answer yet).