We couldn’t use it in 2008 because we needed to use the Windows Mobile emulator.
Database management - sql server management studio has always been a free tool.
Architecture modeling tools - not required for development.
Directs debugging - how many enterprise developers are doing anything with DirectX?
Share point - you couldn’t pay me enough to do Sharepoint development. That’s not exactly a popular use case these days.
We couldn’t use it in 2008 because we needed to use the Windows Mobile emulator.