The Developer Pack 1.0 for Visual Studio 2008 offers to the developers a multitude of features distributed in 3 editions.

• Express Edition (FREE) contains simple & basic tools for Visual Studion 2008.
• Xtreme Edition offers a range of professional tools for the productivity and the quality of the developments.
• Ultimate Edition is the complete edition for the enterprises, software editors or professional developers allowing the productivity, the quality of the deliverables and the collaborative work thru the intergration to Visual Studio Team System.

The table below shows all the features of the Developer Pack 1.0 and allows you to compare the contents of every edition. Please click on the tool name to browse its description.

Tool/Feature	Express Edition	Xtreme Edition	Ultimate Edition
RSS feed reader integrated to Visual Studio	X	X	X
.NET User Interface Tests Automation (WPF, Windows Forms)		X	X
Intellectual Property Protection , .NET software protection			X
Source Code Protection, source code obfuscation			X
License Manager			X

Visual Studio 2008 is available since November 2007 and the french version since February 2008.

To find the edition of Visual Studio that meets your needs, please refer to the web page which shows the range and the characteristics on the Microsoft web site.