Introducing .NET 4.0: with Visual Studio 2010

2.3. VS2010 Premium and Ultimate

I will only be covering VS2010 Professional edition in this book, but I want to make you aware of a couple of fantastic features available in more expensive versions.

2.3.1. Generate Sequence Diagram

The Generate Sequence Diagram feature creates a diagram of a methods calls. To use this feature, simply right-click a function and select Generate Sequence Diagram.

2.3.2. Historical Debugging (Team System Edition Only)

Visual Studio Team System edition contains a very cool feature called Historical Debugging. Ian Who, a developer on the profiler team, says the following about it:

The Historical Debugger plays a role similar to that of a black box in a plane. We keep track of important points in your programs execution ...