Visual Studio Feature Packs

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 feature packs let you extend Visual Studio 2010 with capabilities that enhance and complement the existing tools. This release expands the scenarios where you can use Visual Studio 2010 to help you create better software.

The following table describes where to find more information about Visual Studio feature packs:

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Visual Studio 2010 feature pack downloads on MSDN	Visual Studio 2010 Feature Packs on MSDN
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Visualization and Modeling Feature Pack: Overview, prerequisites, and documentation of the visualization and modeling capabilities in this feature pack.	Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Visualization and Modeling Feature Pack This feature pack extends the visualization and modeling capabilities in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate as follows: Generate dependency graphs for C or C++ code and ASP.NET Web projects. Create layer diagrams from C or C++ code and validate code dependencies against layer diagrams. Generate code for UML class diagrams. Create UML class diagrams from code. Import UML sequence, class, and use case diagram elements from XMI 2.1 files, which you can export from other tools. Create links and view links from work items to model elements. Provide extensibility that lets you write custom code to modify layer diagrams and validate code against them. For more information about visualizing and modeling code by using Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, see Modeling the Application.
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2: Overview, prerequisites, and documentation of the extended testing capabilities in this feature pack.	Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2 This feature pack extends the testing capabilities in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, Visual Studio 2010 Premium and Visual Studio Test Professional 2010 as follows: Playback tests using the Mozilla Firefox browser. You can use Windows Internet Explorer 7 (or later versions) to record UI actions on a website or a Web-based application and then play back the tests using the Mozilla Firefox browser version 3.5 and 3.6. Edit coded UI tests using the Coded UI Test Editor. The editor lets you easily modify your coded UI tests. You can locate, view, and edit your test methods, UI actions and their associated controls in the UI control map. You can create coded UI tests or action recordings for Silverlight 4 applications. Action recordings enable you to fast forward through steps in a manual test. For more information about testing applications by using Visual Studio 2010, see Testing the Application. Important Feature Pack 2 also includes the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Visualization and Modeling Feature Pack for Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate. If you already have the Visualization and Modeling Feature Pack installed on your computer, make sure that you copy any custom templates from the extension folders under %LocalAppData% to a safe location before you install Feature Pack 2. Installing this feature pack uninstalls the Visualization and Modeling Feature Pack, removing it from the Visual Studio Extension Gallery and also any custom templates under %LocalAppData%, and installs it in a different location. You will have to remap the templates for any code generation projects to the following location, where you can find the extensions and DLLs that are necessary to use some of the visualization and modeling capabilities: …\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Microsoft\<InsertVisualStudioFeaturePackName>\<InsertVisualStudioFeaturePackVersionNumber> For more information, see Visualizing and Modeling Code with Feature Pack 2 and How to: Generate Code from UML Class Diagrams.
Visual Studio 2010 on MSDN	Visual Studio 2010 on MSDN
Overview and documentation for Visual Studio 2010	Visual Studio 2010