Visual Studio Team Edition 2008 for Software Architects with MSDN Premium

An integrated Application Life Cycle Management (ALM) solution

From Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System is an integrated Application Life Cycle Management (ALM) solution comprising tools, processes, and guidance to help all members of a development team improve their skills and work effectively together.

Visual Studio Team System 2008 Architecture Edition focuses on improving the design and validation of distributed systems. It gives architects, operations managers, and developers the ability to visually construct service-oriented solutions and validate them against their operational environments prior to deployment.

Visual Studio Team System 2008 Architecture Edition is aimed at improving the design and validation of distributed systems, enabling organizations to lower the risk of deployment of enterprise-class distributed systems. Architecture Edition 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. By integrating tightly into the Visual Studio Team System, architects can communicate requirements efficiently to all members of the software development lifecycle.

Refine Your Systems Design

Use the Top-Down Service Designer to progressively improve your system designs and get a better view of your application architecture.

Design for operations

Save time by building solutions that are immediately verified for your operational environment.

Design with patterns

Introduce design elements that play predefined roles within an architectural pattern, such as Smart Client, Entity Service, Workflow Service, or Service Agent.

What's New in 2008 for Microsoft Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Architects

• Top-down system design: Design business solutions before choosing technology.
• Conform to Web Services Description Language (WSDL): Update Web services to automatically conform to a WSDL contract Web Application Projects: Generate and maintain Web Application Projects just as you create Web sites using visual designers.
• Architectural Roles: Introduce elements that play specific predefined architectural roles within architectural patterns into the design.

Feature Highlights for Microsoft Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Architects

• Application Designer to visually define service-oriented applications and generate code
• System Designer to compose applications into systems or reusable subsystems and validate the resulting configurations
• Deployment Designer to validate application designs against a target datacenter and identify issues before deployment begins
• Logical Datacenter Designer to visualize the logical structure of datacenters, specify operational policies, and validate applications prior to deployment

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