Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Architect (with MSDN Premium)

Microsoft Visual studio 2005 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.

(Team Edition for Software Architects can be purchased separately, or as part of the Visual Studio Team Suite 2005 suite of programs.)

Microsoft Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Architects focuses on improving the design and validation of distributed systems, and enabling organizations to lower the risk of deployment of enterprise-class distributed systems.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.

With Team Edition for Software Architects, you can keep application design documents synchronized with code at all times, design and configure .NET Web services visually, create and manage a living blueprint of an entire distributed system using the first SDM-compatible tool, communicate information using a common modeling language, and validate design prior to implemenatation to ensure that your distributed application will deploy successfully.

Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Architects integrates tightly with the Visual Studio Team System, allowing architects to communicate efficiently with all members of the software development lifecycle. Creating, viewing, or assigning work items, and sharing artifacts easily among all members of the team is easily accomplished. The Distributed System Designers treat models as first-class citizens in the development lifecycle and provide a continuously synched view of the code. This "trip-less" round-tripping ensures that the model remains up-to-date with the code at all times.

Team Edition for Software Architects offers a rich, extensible infrastructure for customers and third-parties to build upon and lets you leverage integrated partner solutions to extend the Distributed System Designers to provide support for management and deployment of distributed applications. Advanced customization features allow you to model new application types or application hosts using the System Definition Model (SDM) SDK, or extend existing SDM models.

New Distributed System Designers integrate seamlessly with the Visual Studio 2005 IDE, enabling architects to design, implement, and validate distributed applications. The Logical Datacenter Designer can be used to create a logical view of your datacenter, including logical servers, endpoints, communication boundaries and pathways. With Team Edition for Software Architects, you can import IIS configuration information from a physical IIS server. A scriptable deployment report captures all information required for deployment, and the rich extensibility mechanism enables users to create new resources, model new application and server types, and specify custom settings and constraints.

• Architect and Design Distributed Systems - Sound architectural decisions are the key to project success. Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Architects provides powerful new visual designers for service-oriented solution modeling. These new visual designers increase productivity and help architects and operations managers make sound architectural decisions by validating their solutions against the operational environment early in the application life cycle.
• Utilize Proven Development Practices - Design architecturally sound applications by leveraging integrated guidance, frameworks, and tools from Microsoft's patterns & practices team, while encouraging reuse by easily disseminating organization-specific components, frameworks, and patterns. Additionally, the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) provides a set of software development processes, principles, and proven practices for the entire software development life cycle -- from requirements through to deployment.
• Improve Collaboration and Communication - All Visual Studio Team Editions are deeply integrated with Team Foundation Server to give team members complete visibility into all development artifacts and activities on a project, reducing issues related to poor communication and improving team productivity and effectiveness.

MSDN Premium Subscriptions
Team Edition for Software Architects includes an MSDN Premium Subscription. An MSDN Premium Subscription provides continuous, priority access to the technologies you need to support Team Edition for Software Architects 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.

• Modeling Tools - that allow architects to design applications that seamlessly integrate with the development environment.
• Integration with the Existing Visual Studio - project system and Microsoft .Net framework technologies.
• Full Synchronization between visual design elements and code
• An extensibility framework to allow new kinds of application and hosting systems to be modeled.
• Application connection designer that allows developers and architects to define applications that will be configured into systems for deployment.
• logical Datacenter Designer that can be used to create diagrams or interconnected hosts that represent the logical structure of a datacenter for the purpose of communicating important information to the developer about the target deployment environment.
• System Designer that can be used to compose applications into systems.
• Deployment Designer that is used to bind applications within your system to logical servers (application hosts) modeled in a logical datacenter diagram

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005: Team Editions Comparison

• Windows 2000 with SP4, Windows XP with SP2, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition (WOW), Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions (WOW), Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Vista
• 2.0 GHz or faster processor
• 384 MB of RAM or more
• 1024x768 or higher-resolution display with 256 colors
• 2 GB of available hard-disk space
• DVD-ROM drive
• Keyboard and Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device

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