[j_s]

Which requires Visual Studio Ultimate, listed at $13300/seat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_Studio#Editio...

http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/productI...

[Retric]

That may be the list price, but my company pays around 2k/year for a MSDN ultimate subscription for each developer. Which includes licenses that don't expire for, Visual Studio Ultimate, every version of Windows, Office, SQL Server, etc.

[binarycrusader]

Renewal prices are much lower; I can't believe the amount Microsoft wants to charge for the initial purchase though.

I don't know of many small shop software developers that would be willing or able to pay the $13K list price Microsoft wants for Visual Studio Ultimate.

What's really sad about that is that they bundled improved debugging with a whole bunch of other things that aren't useful to smaller businesses.

[alive-or-not]

$0 on BizSpark, DreamSpark, etc.

[j_s]

BizSpark does (for up to 3 years); DreamSpark does not include the Ultimate edition of Visual Studio.

https://www.dreamspark.com/student/software-catalog.aspx

[socillion]

You definitely can get VS Ultimate through DreamSpark, but only through DreamSpark Premium (fee paid by school.)

http://i.imgur.com/9aHcIOx.png

https://www.dreamspark.com/Institution/Subscription.aspx

[alive-or-not]

Or you can join IEEE for $13.50: http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/join/join... . Just make sure to NOT give them a real email address, these guys are sending more spam than Nigeria.

[reeses]

But we really do think you would benefit from joining the Optical Transportation Switching Society for only an additional $10 per year.

[j_s]

Nice find, thanks!

[mpeg]

Oh man.

I have been using VS 2012 professional without realizing it didn't have intellitrace. And I have a license for ultimate too (company paid).

Still, I know about intellitrace, I really like the way the takipi java/scala tools display the info though :)

[fijal]

Wow, this is more than a yearly salary in many countries. I suppose I wouldn't want to work for a year to get a better visual studio...

[baboo]

http://tpb.piraten.lu/torrent/7963590/MICROSOFT_VISUAL_STUDI...

[vosper]

Please don't post links to pirated software.