Visual Studio Editions compared?

[Norbert Unterberg]

Hi,

We are currently discussing in-house what edition of Visual Studio 2008
we need.
The compare sheets we have found (i.e.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hs24szh9.aspx) do not list if
the C/C++ (native) optimizer is included in the standard edition or if
we need the professional edition to get the optimizing C/C++ compiler.

Is the optimizer included in the standard edition, or do you know more
detailed comparison charts?

Thanks
Norbert Unterberg

[Bo Persson]

Post by Norbert Unterberg
Hi,
We are currently discussing in-house what edition of Visual Studio
2008 we need.
The compare sheets we have found (i.e.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hs24szh9.aspx) do not list
if the C/C++ (native) optimizer is included in the standard edition
or if we need the professional edition to get the optimizing C/C++
compiler.
Is the optimizer included in the standard edition, or do you know
more detailed comparison charts?

It is included in all editions, including the Express Edition.



Bo Persson

[peter koch]

Post by Bo Persson

Post by Norbert Unterberg
Hi,
We are currently discussing in-house what edition of Visual Studio
2008 we need.
The compare sheets we have found (i.e.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hs24szh9.aspx) do not list
if the C/C++ (native) optimizer is included in the standard edition
or if we need the professional edition to get the optimizing C/C++
compiler.
Is the optimizer included in the standard edition, or do you know
more detailed comparison charts?

It is included in all editions, including the Express Edition.
Bo Persson

One extra question, if I may interfere? I find no mention of a
profiler. There is profile guided optimisations, but not a real
profiler. Doesn't Microsoft provide a profiler in their toolchest?

Best regards
Peter

[Carl Daniel [VC++ MVP]]

Post by peter koch

Post by Bo Persson

Post by Norbert Unterberg
Hi,
We are currently discussing in-house what edition of Visual Studio
2008 we need.
The compare sheets we have found (i.e.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hs24szh9.aspx) do not list
if the C/C++ (native) optimizer is included in the standard edition
or if we need the professional edition to get the optimizing C/C++
compiler.
Is the optimizer included in the standard edition, or do you know
more detailed comparison charts?

It is included in all editions, including the Express Edition.
Bo Persson

One extra question, if I may interfere? I find no mention of a
profiler. There is profile guided optimisations, but not a real
profiler. Doesn't Microsoft provide a profiler in their toolchest?

There's a profiler in the Team Editions (Dev & Test). It lacks good GUI
tooling for setting up profiling runs on native code, but the underlying
profiler engine works equally well on native and managed code.

-cd