Compare Editions of Visual Studio 2008 with MSDN Premium

• Visual Studio 2005 with MSDN Premium
  
  Today's software systems are comprised of numerous distributed services, spanning platforms, protocols, and programming languages, all with significant impact on the operations environment. Moreover, teams have become increasingly specialized and geographically distributed. Successful deployment of modern 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 lifecycle.
  
  
• Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Developers
  
  Microsoft Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Developers enables advanced developers to verify the performance and quality of the code they write. By integrating advanced tools into the Visual Studio IDE, Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Developers assists developers detect coding and security related issues earlier in the development cycle thereby reducing the overall cost of fixing code defects.
  
  
• Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Architects
  
  Microsoft Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Architects is the first deliverable of the Dynamic Systems Initiative, aimed at improving the design and validation of distributed systems. Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Architects gives architects, operations managers, and developers the ability to increase the predictability of success by visually constructing service-oriented solutions that can be validated against their operational environments prior to deployment.
  
  
• Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Testers
  
  Microsoft Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Testers provides advanced testing tools that enable teams to verify the performance and quality of applications prior to deployment. By integrating testing into their software life cycle allows organizations to ensure the predictability and reliability and to promote performance testing from an expensive afterthought to an integral part of the entire software development process.
  
  
• Visual Studio Team Suite
  
  Visual Studio Team Foundation Server provides insight into the 'black box' that is application development today with integrated version control, reporting, work item tracking, process guidance and automated builds. These features are tightly integrated with Visual Studio 2005 so individuals can work naturally while Team Foundation Server collates their work with the rest of their team. Integrated Web services modeling tools that will enable you to design for operations.
  
  
  • Productive, integrated, and extensible software lifecycle management tools —A bundle of Visual Studio Team Architect Edition, Visual Studio Team Developer Edition, and Visual Studio Team Test Edition.
  • Code quality and performance tools for building mission-critical applications
  • Load testing tools for helping meet the rigorous performance demands of enterprise-class applications
  
  
  
• Visual Studio 2005 Team Test Load Agent
  
  Microsoft Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Testers provides advanced testing tools that enable teams to verify the performance and quality of applications prior to deployment. By integrating testing into their software life cycle allows organizations to ensure the predictability and reliability and to promote performance testing from an expensive afterthought to an integral part of the entire software development process.
  
  

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