• Work in the same IDE to create solutions for the web desktop cloud server and phone
• Examine and refine your code with extensive tools for app debugging and profiling
• Verify code quality with unit testing and an extensible testing framework
• Get access to Microsoft platforms and tools past and present with new releases added all the time
• Get Team Foundation Server and a Team Foundation Server CAL for production use
• Take your apps to the cloud Windows Store and Windows Phone Marketplace with included services as subscription benefits
• Provision and manage virtual lab environments for testing with consistent configurations
• Coordinate your team with agile project management tools
• Organize and define your test plans with test case management and exploratory testing
• Improve code quality with a peer code review workflow within Visual Studio
• Improve developer productivity when multitasking with task suspend and resume
• Automate user interface tests to validate application UI
• Find and manage duplicate code in your code base to improve your architecture
• Determine how much code is being tested with code coverage analysis
• Reliably capture and reproduce bugs found during manual and exploratory testing to eliminate "no repro" bugs
• Understand the dependencies and relationships in your code through visualization
• Visualize the impact of a change or a potential change in your code
• Collect and analyze runtime diagnostic data from production systems
• Perform unlimited web performance and load testing
• Design architectural layer diagrams to then validate code implements the architecture

Processor:

• 1.6 GHz or faster

Operating System:

• Windows 7 with Service Pack 1 (32/64-bit)
• Windows 8 (32/64-bit)
• Windows Server 2008 R.2 with Service Pack 1 (64-bit)
• Windows Server 2012 (64-bit)

Hard Disk:

• 10 GB of available space (5400 RPM)

Memory:

• 1 GB of RAM (1.5 GB if running on a virtual machine)

Others:

• DirectX 9-capable video card
• 1024 x 768 or higher display resolution

Visual Studio Ultimate 2012 is the state-of-the-art development solution that empowers teams of all sizes to design and create compelling applications to delight users. You can use flexible agile planning tools-like capacity planning taskboards and backlog management-to enable incremental development techniques and agile methodologies at your own pace. Use advanced modeling discovery and architecture tools to describe your system and help ensure that your architecture vision is preserved in the implementation. Bring development and operation teams together by using IntelliTrace in production Operations Manager Connector and Preemptive Analytics. Improve quality and reduce time to resolution by generating actionable bugs from deployed software and effectively partner with the operations staff to provide data that gives developers greater insight into production issues.