Does Surface Pro 3 Run Visual Studio , Sql Server , Xampp And Other Development Apps?

I want to know if Surface Pro 3 i7 - i5 could run any of the following applications such as : visual studio SQL server management-studio xampp Dreamweaver and so on ..

Solution 1:

Surface Pro 3 with the i5 or i7 processor runs Windows 8.1 and can run these applications, just like a regular laptop or desktop. This should not be confused with the older Surface RT. I run SQL Server and Visual Studio on my Surface Pro 3 but can't speak from first-hand experience about xampp and Dreamweaver. I would expect those applications to run too.

The only issue I've run into is that the optional keypad stopped working after Hyper-V was enabled (needed by Visual studio for mobile device emulation). I simply disabled Hyper-V as a workaround since I don't do mobile development on the device nor have a need for virtualization. I suspect a firmware bug. This may have been fixed in the January 2015 firmware release (which Microsoft pushes via Windows update) because I just re-enabled Hyper-V and have not yet had the problem.