John was impressed. He plugged the USB drive into his laptop and started working on his project. With the portable Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, he was able to write, compile, and debug his code on the go. He could even use the built-in tools to test and deploy his application.
As the years went by, John continued to use the portable Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate on his USB drive. He even shared it with his colleagues and friends, who were also impressed by its convenience and functionality. portable visual studio 2010 ultimate
Unlike modern text editors (think Notepad++ or Sublime Text), Visual Studio is a massive, system-dependent ecosystem. When you install VS 2010, it does much more than copy files to a folder: John was impressed
C:\VS2010_Portable\* → E:\VS2010\ C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\MSEnv → E:\VS2010\Common\MSEnv C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A → E:\VS2010\SDK C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319 (and v2.0.50727) → E:\VS2010\.NET He could even use the built-in tools to