There are a ton of designers in VS. You can drag and drop database tables to create ORM classes(in 3 different ORM's out of the box). Designers for asp.net web

There are a ton of designers in VS. You can drag and drop database tables to create ORM classes(in 3 different ORM's out of the box). Designers for asp.net web apps, drop controls like tables, textboxes, etc. Designers for win forms, WPF, Silverlight apps. There are a lot features related ot other MS products - SQL server, TFS (source code control, bugs tracking), Active Directory, etc. The ultimate edition comes with web/load test tools. You can record some actions in Internet Explorer, than VS can create a coded test perfroming all the requests and testing the responses. VS has a historical debugger, called InteliTrace. It can show you the state of an app at any previous point of execution.