You will hardly find complete answer to this question. I was looking once and no help.
What I know is that Standard is sufficient for web development.
Pro has more project types and templates for example Database project. Also Office development tool support, unit testing, mobile and a few other features are VS professional only as stated on: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/07/26/vs-2008-and-net-3-5-beta-2-released.aspx#3291726
Hope this helps a little :)
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VS has a lot of commands and many users only use some of them, depending on what they do. Therefore VS 2005 introduced concept of user profiles, like 'General development' (all commands visible), 'VB Development', 'C# development', 'C++ development', etc.
For example, someone doing C# development most pobably won't need to see VB-specific options and commands and Web developer rarely need to look at C++ exceptions. This does not mean commands are not available - you can always switch to General profile where
everything is visible.
Express edition has special mode Tools | Options dialogs. There is however a checkbox 'Show all options' that switches dialog to standard mode. Express edition is does not have all commands as full Visual Studio. Differences see here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/mikhailarkhipov/archive/2006/06/26/647516.aspx
Everything I read says that the academic edition should have "edit and continue" but when I try to enable it with the following instructions right from the HELP, "To access the Edit and Continue page, click the Tools menu and select Options. In the Options
dialog box, expand the Debugging folder and select Edit and Continue.", I discover that I don't see a debugging folder. Does "edit and continue" exist in the academic edition? If so, how do I enable it? Thanks, Scott
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Differences between Visual Studio 2005 Product Versions (Standard, Pro, Academic)
Aug 23, 2007 02:13 PM|LINK
What are the differences between these Visual Studio product versions:
VS 2005 Standard vs VS 2005 Pro
VS 2005 Pro (Academic Version) vs VS 2005 Pro
millet
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Re: Differences between Visual Studio 2005 Product Versions (Standard, Pro, Academic)
Aug 23, 2007 07:06 PM|LINK
You will hardly find complete answer to this question. I was looking once and no help.
What I know is that Standard is sufficient for web development.
Pro has more project types and templates for example Database project. Also Office development tool support, unit testing, mobile and a few other features are VS professional only as stated on: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/07/26/vs-2008-and-net-3-5-beta-2-released.aspx#3291726
Hope this helps a little :)
Please mark post as answer if it helps, if not come back and ask again!
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Re: Differences between Visual Studio 2005 Product Versions (Standard, Pro, Academic)
Aug 23, 2007 08:59 PM|LINK
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700921.aspx
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Re: Differences between Visual Studio 2005 Product Versions (Standard, Pro, Academic)
Aug 24, 2007 06:38 AM|LINK
Hi,
What does mean: "Simplified menu options and defaults"?
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Re: Differences between Visual Studio 2005 Product Versions (Standard, Pro, Academic)
Aug 24, 2007 02:12 PM|LINK
VS has a lot of commands and many users only use some of them, depending on what they do. Therefore VS 2005 introduced concept of user profiles, like 'General development' (all commands visible), 'VB Development', 'C# development', 'C++ development', etc. For example, someone doing C# development most pobably won't need to see VB-specific options and commands and Web developer rarely need to look at C++ exceptions. This does not mean commands are not available - you can always switch to General profile where everything is visible.
Express edition has special mode Tools | Options dialogs. There is however a checkbox 'Show all options' that switches dialog to standard mode. Express edition is does not have all commands as full Visual Studio. Differences see here: http://blogs.msdn.com/mikhailarkhipov/archive/2006/06/26/647516.aspx
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Re: Differences between Visual Studio 2005 Product Versions (Standard, Pro, Academic)
Oct 31, 2007 01:49 AM|LINK
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Re: Differences between Visual Studio 2005 Product Versions (Standard, Pro, Academic)
Oct 31, 2007 03:48 AM|LINK
Found it...I had to click on the "Show all settings" checkbox before the debugging folder would show up.