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Perpetual license
Live Dependency Validation
Refactoring
One-Click Web Deployment
Live Unit Testing
IntelliTest
Microsoft Fakes (Unit Test Isolation)
Unit Testing
Code Review
Task Suspend/Resume
Team Explorer (third-party development tools support)
Visual Studio Live Share
Static Code Analysis
Performance and Diagnostics Hub
Basic features
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User client access licence (CAL)
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(licensed for normal use on one device)
Virtualize/SOAtest Professional Desktop
Azure DevOps Server/Azure DevOps Bolt extension
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