Microsoft Visual Studio Team Suite 2005 Programs With MSDN Premium represents one of the most significant developer tools releases since the introduction of Visual Studio nearly a decade ago. It offers developers of all types a wider spectrum of development possibilities and a greatly advanced design experience.
Team Foundation Server can track the versions of files under source control, keep a record of their change history. View larger. |
Easily find, track, and view bugs by using the Bug List report. View larger. |
Team Edition for Software Architects includes the new Application Designer, a visual design surface that helps software architects design, configure, implement, and deploy service-oriented applications. View larger. |
The data that Visual Studio Team System collects from the on-chip performance counters describes how your code behaves at its lowest level -- literally how the machine code is performing. View larger. |
Microsoft Visual Studio Team System is an entirely new series of productive, integrated life-cycle tools that help development teams communicate and collaborate more effectively. It provides tools to support the entire software development team -- software architects, developers, and testers -- for a far more efficient development process. Combining Visual Studio Team System role-based products into an integrated suite of applications that address the needs of multifunctional roles in an organization, the Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite includes Team Edition for Software Architects, Team Edition for Software Developers, and Team Edition for Software Testers. Included is an MSDN Premium Subscription that provides continuous, priority access to the technologies you need to support Visual Studio Team System and build a broad range of applications and Web services.
Visual Studio Team System also includes the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF). MSF is a highly customizable, scalable, fully integrated set of software development processes, principles, and proven practices designed to deliver the type of guidance desired by the user when and where it is needed. MSF provides a seamless experience with Visual Studio Team System for process automation and guidance within the software development life cycle.
A Better Way to Collaborate
I Today's software systems comprise numerous distributed services spanning platforms, protocols, programming languages, and even geographies. Successful deployment of advanced solutions depends on bridging the communication gap between development and operations so that the entire IT department is represented early and often throughout the software life cycle.
Visual Studio Team System offers tightly integrated and extensible tools that enable software development teams to develop more efficiently by improving communication and collaboration throughout the development process. With Team Suite, the project manager, testers, developers, and architect know where they are on the project at all times. That means less time in meetings and on e-mail or the phone, and more time delivering high quality.
Visual Studio Team Features
Visual Studio Team System features a world-class development environment built on top of Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition. With Team System, you can publish and administer Web sites more easily with the powerful combination of ASP .NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005. With the built-in publishing features, such as integrated File Transfer Protocol (FTP), you can keep files in your local project and synchronize them with files located on a remote Web server. Visual Studio automatically logs copied files, which helps you to identify whether the remote site has been updated with the latest files. And to help protect your site and your IP, you can precompile a Web site to publish only executable code, no source files, to your production server.
Team System also gives you the ability to clean all those unwanted files out of your solution in a one-click operation. Simply choose "Clean Solution" from the Build Menu and all the intermediate files and output directories in your whole solution will be removed.
The Deployment Designer in Team Edition for Software Architects allows application designs to be validated for deployment within a particular datacenter, identifying possible issues before the deployment begins. Service oriented applications often involve multiple components that may reside on different servers and have a variety of configuration and communication requirements.
The Team Edition for Software Architects Deployment Designer can be used to validate an application for deployment in a particular datacenter. Validation detects many common deployment issues, allowing the development team to resolve them before deployment occurs. This has the potential to greatly reduce the complexity of service oriented application deployments.
Visual Studio Team Edition for Testers provides the ability to gather and store detailed information about how an application performs under different types of load. Team Edition also lets you customize Visual Studio with your own internal tools or use supplemental products from more than 190 Microsoft partners, optimizing your team's development flexibility.
MSDN Premium Subscriptions
Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite also includes an MSDN Premium Subscription. An MSDN Premium Subscription provides continuous, priority access to the technologies you need to support Visual Studio Team System and build a broad range of applications and Web services, including the latest versions of Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Windows XP Professional Edition, Windows XP Home Edition, and future Windows releases. (Usage rights are limited to development and testing only.)
With the subscription, your technical support includes unlimited usage of MSDN Managed Newsgroups for online support with a guaranteed response time of two business days, phone-based support incidents, and free access to MSDN Online Concierge for nontechnical questions regarding navigation of the MSDN site, Knowledge Base article searches, and MSDN Subscriber Downloads. Also, continuously updated technical content is available through the MSDN Library, which offers comprehensive programming information, code samples, sample applications, technical documentation and articles, and the Microsoft Developer Knowledge Base.
