Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate

2010 was the dawn of multi-core processors becoming mainstream. Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate introduced the Parallel Tasks and Parallel Stacks windows. Debugging race conditions and deadlocks in multi-threaded applications became visually intuitive. The Concurrency Visualizer (part of the profiling tools) helped developers optimize for throughput.

While Premium offered some profiling, Ultimate gave you the full arsenal. You could profile for CPU usage, memory allocation, and concurrency. When combined with code coverage, you could see exactly which lines of code were executed during your unit and integration tests—critical for mission-critical systems. visual studio 2010 ultimate

The VsVim extension (last compatible version from 2013) brings Vim keybindings to VS 2010—critical for developers who hate moving their hands to the mouse. 2010 was the dawn of multi-core processors becoming

Ultimate included a full suite for quality assurance: Via Control Panel