Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise - the edition for demanding developers as a purchase version

The Enterprise edition of Visual Studio 2017 provides users with a wide range of powerful features to develop apps for any domain on popular operating systems, while the integrated tools make every step from development to release even more efficient: Only available in Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise Edition is the Live Unit Testing feature for C# and Visual Basic to alert on errors as they are written, as well as the IntelliTrace feature to take snapshots and switch between states of an application - plus this edition in particular supports collaborative work in larger teams.

In Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise developers have a wide range of languages at their disposal, from C and C++ as well as C# to iOS, JavaScript, Python, ASP.NET and many more, including live support when writing code: The handy features not only make it easier to navigate analysis and debugging, but also to make corrections and overrides when debugging and refactoring - a case in point being IntelliSense, as well as CodeLens, which displays changes to code directly in the editor.

Who is Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise Edition for?

The Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise Edition is intended for professional developers who also want to develop applications for desktop, mobile and web together with other employees and use their extensive possibilities for code analysis and correction. Visual Studio 2017 offers the advantage here that the version also supports Windows 7; thanks to the space-saving installation, the software can also be used on older end devices, which expands the scope of applications.

The Visual Studio 2017 Edition available from Wiresoft Enterprise Edition, which is available from Wiresoft as used software, offers developers the opportunity to acquire all the benefits of the proven Microsoft software without the usual subscription and instead in the form of a purchase version as a single license. In the Wiresoft Software online store you can find beside this Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise Edition, you will also find other editions or versions as well as Microsoft programs compatible with it, such as Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10, which is a prerequisite for the use of certain features. The following overview shows the most important optimizations and exclusive features of Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise.

Exclusive features in Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise

The Enterprise edition of Visual Studio 2017 is intended for developers with higher expectations, who especially need effective features in testing and debugging, including:

Live Unit Testing for Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise

Early detection as well as elimination of errors in code is one of the important standard tasks in programming. Live Unit Testing makes it possible to change or redesign code even more safely. The feature is exclusive to the Enterprise Edition for projects in C# and Visual Basic that are based on .NET Core and .NET Framework, respectively. Even as a developer modifies code, Live Unit Testing automatically runs unit tests in real time, indicating whether they adequately cover the code, while also ensuring that potential changes do not cause regressions. Code coverage with Live Unit Testing is displayed graphically in real time so that users can immediately see whether and how many lines of code are covered by the tests; the feature also includes the following additions and optimizations in the 2017 Edition:

• Already when opening a solution, it is displayed whether the Live Unit Testing feature is enabled or disabled.
• By integrating the Live Unit Testing feature into the Visual Studio Taskcenter, an indication is now given there whether it is enabled.
• Live Unit Testing in Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise now also supports frequently used frameworks such as xUnit, NUnit and MSTest.
• Integrated support for .NET Core and .NET Standard has been added to Standard solution in C# or Visual Basic.
• Tests can be debugged within the execution context in the UI window without the need to leave the code editor.
• The newly introduced beaker icon is used to distinguish the different live unit test methods.
• Renaming the "Live Test Set - Include/Exclude" feature to "Live Unit Testing - Include/Exclude" also eliminates comprehension problems known from the previous version when using it.

IntelliTrace for Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise

IntelliTrace is especially designed for the C#, C++ and Visual Basic languages for time-saving capture and tracing of code execution history. Among other things, it can be used to

especially the step-back debugging, which was only available for C# in the previous version, is now also available for C++. With the "Events" and "Snapshots" functions, developers can instantly switch back and forth between different states of an application ( Windows 10 Anniversary Update (1607) is required for this).

Users can create snapshots and also use "Step back" and "Step forward" to navigate through the events displayed in the "Events" tab in the Diagnostic Tool window. When navigating, history-based debugging is automatically enabled for a selected event.

Overview of other key features in Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise

The 2017 version of Visual Studio Enterprise includes several improvements over the previous version, as well as new features to make developer work even faster and more efficient. Already during installation, admins can decide which applications are preferred: for example, only the Core Editor can be used, or also .NET desktop applications, Python, etc. In addition

boot times at program startup, as well as session startup and solution loading, as well as template detection for projects and items.

Languages supported by Visual Studio 2017

A highlight of Visual Studio Enterprise 2017 is the extremely wide range of supported languages: In addition to older ones like Visual Basic as well as C, C++, C#, TypeScript and Python for rapid application development, the web languages HTML and CSS are also available, as well as ASP.NET Core to create web applications and services as well as mobile back-ends, ASP.NET Razor, Java and JavaScript respectively, and also F#, PHP and also Objective-C for app development for iOS, etc.

In addition, Visual Studio 2017 also includes improvements to the editors for C++, C#, Visual Basic, F#, JavaScript and TypeScript, alongside optimizations to the code debugging and problem diagnosis tools for software development with .NET Core, ASP .NET Core, and also Unity as well as MS SQL Server, among others.

Support for Xamarin Mobile Development in Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise

Through the integration of Xamarin, the development of mobile apps for Windows, Android as well as iOS on this basis is now possible in Visual Studio 2017. Typical Xamarin features include the Xamarin Forms Previewer, which immediately shows the effects of a line of code on an application in a live preview. Furthermore, the Xamarin.Forms, Xamarin Profiler and Xamarin Test Recorder features are included, as well as IntelliSense for XAML enhancements for Xamarin Forms.

IntelliSense in Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise

The IntelliSense feature describes APIs the moment they are entered and automatically completes them, using the built-in IntelliSense completion lists, which speeds up the corresponding processes. Tooltips indicate problems by marking critical points with a wavy line. The lists also provide quick access to members, namespaces and code snippets, as well as to names of variables, commands and functions. Specifically in C#, the completion lists include tokens for "list member" and "complete word," among others.

CodeLens in Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise

The CodeLens feature provides developers with the time-saving ability to navigate to individual functions without having to leave the code to do so. CodeLens also highlights all code changes in the editor and indicates whether a test has passed at that location, as well as the last developer who adjusted something there.

New refactorings in Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise

Refactorings provide a convenient way to update or improve the internal structure of code without changing its behavior. More refactorings are available in Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise; these include converting if-statements to switch-statements, adding parameters, such as NULL checks, and arguments, as well as generating overrides; there is also the option to add digit separators for literals - especially for numeric literals, changing the base from "hexadecimal" to "binary" - etc.

Source code management in Visual Studio 2017 with Git

For those who don't want to use Microsoft's own Azure DevOps solution for source code management in Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise, they can instead use Git for Remote Repository, the widely used Standard for file version management that also allows members of a larger team to work on a project simultaneously.

Visual Studio 2017 Edition now provides the ability for Git to directly use appropriate repositories via built-in buttons in the IDE to set up, edit and publish code through them. Also included are new additions, e.g. for the "Push" and "Commit" functions, as well as SSH support. When using Azure DevOps Services, Visual Studio Enterprise also connects users to Git or GitHub repositories as well as TFVC repositories via Team Explorer.

Hardware requirements for Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise

To install Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise, .NET Framework version 4.5.2 is required. The .NET Framework 4.7.2 version required to run the Visual Studio software is installed during setup. Certain features may require Windows 10. Further, the following minimum requirements must be met:

System requirements:

To use Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise one of the following Windows versions is required:

• Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows Server 2012/ 2012 R2 /2016 /2019/ 2022
• Windows Server 2016: Standard, Datacenter
• Windows 8.1 (with update 2919355): Core, Professional, Enterprise
• Windows Server 2012 R2 (with update 2919355): Essentials, Standard, Datacenter
• Windows 7 SP1 (including latest updates): Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise, Ultimate

Other requirements:

• Processor: 1.8 GHz or faster; dual-core or better recommended
• RAM: 2 GB RAM, 4 GB RAM recommended (min. 2.5 GB when running on a virtual computer)
• Hard disk space: up to 130 GB depending on installed features, the Standard installation requires 20 - 50 GB free space
• To improve performance and speed, it is recommended to install Visual Studio 2017 as well as Windows on an SSD to take advantage of hard disk speed
• Graphics card: DirectX 9 capable, minimum 1,280 x 720 (720p) resolution, recommended is 1,366 x 768 WXGA or higher

Buy Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise single license as used software in Wiresoft online store

Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise Edition is offered in Wiresoft's online store as a single license in the purchase version - and is available as used software at a particularly low price, so it is not the commercial subscription version. This license of Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise Edition comes from a corresponding volume license of a company, which was purchased by Wiresoft, this was dissolved in the process and converted into individual licenses, thereby receiving a new label as "used software" or "used software".

The licenses of Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise or any other Microsoft software offered to Wiresoft come from a company located in Europe, to which EU law applies. Neither the splitting of the volume license nor the new labeling as used software creates any restrictions on the functionality of the Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise software.

Buying software with Wiresoft is always cheap and safe at the same time! The license of Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise offered by Wiresoft in the store does not have a big price advantage compared to the other subscription obligation by the one-time purchase, but is immediately usable by the immediate download and the license activation with the included valid volume license key. In addition, the purchase of used software such as Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise or other Microsoft software is also legally safe for Wiresoft customers: trading in used software is expressly permitted by law, which has also been clearly confirmed by corresponding court rulings, so Wiresoft software is also audit-proof.

For all these reasons, single licenses of used software such as Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise provide buyers with a low-cost alternative to conventional offers of software licenses, and thus offer an economical way to be able to use such exclusive program editions.

In the Wiresoft Software Shop you will not only find this Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise Edition, but also other versions and editions of this software as well as matching Microsoft operating systems such as Windows 8 and Windows 10 - always as used software with instant download. If you have any questions about Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise or any other Microsoft program, just use our competent advice in the chat or by e-mail or phone.