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

Today's software systems comprise numerous distributed services, spanning platforms, protocols, programming languages, and even geographies. 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. Microsoft Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Developers 2005 with MSDN Premium provides advanced development tools that enable teams to incorporate quality, early and often throughout the development life cycle.

Visual Studio 2005 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 2005 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. In addition, code analysis tools can be used as a part of the check-in policy for a nightly build process, enabling development teams to correct defects before code is checked into the source tree. Performance analysis tools in Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Developers allow developers to measure, evaluate, and target performance-related issues in their code identifying performance bottlenecks early-on and providing the capability for developers to perform unit tests on their code modules during development.

• Improve Code Quality - Team Edition for Software Developers provides developers with an advanced set of tools to identify inefficient, insecure or poor quality code, specify coding best practices and automate software unit testing. These tools help everyone on the team write better quality code, reduce security-related issues and avoid bugs later in the development life cycle.
• Optimize Performance and Diagnose Issues - Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Developers performance tools trace their technological roots back almost a decade to the labs of Microsoft Research. At that time, Microsoft Research was responsible for a set of performance tools that were created to help optimize products such as Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft SQL Server. These efforts produced technology that is now part of Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Developers.

  You can use a method of profiling called sampling to get a very high-level view of the potential hotspots in your application and insert timing probes into the application. This method of profiling gathers very detailed performance data about specific areas in your application. The profiler can diagnose performance issues in native and managed executables, DLL files, and ASP.NET applications.

• 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.

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

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• Reduce the complexity of developing applications by providing advanced tools for code analysis, performance, profiling and verification.
• Tighter Integration by providing a singular IDE for all components of the software development lifecycle, increasing application quality and reducing the time to delivery.
• Team Collaboration and Extensibility by providing all members of a software team access to an overall shared warehouse for integrated feedback and reporting.
• Powerful Tools Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Developers offers developers access to advanced tools for code analysis, performance, profiling and verification. By integrating quality and verification tools in the development lifecycle, developers can be more productive, detect code defects earlier and decrease the time to deliver
• Tight Integration Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Developers in tightly integrated within the Visual Studio 2005 Team System allowing enterprise developers as part of a productive development team to reduce the complexity of development and facilitate better communication and collaboration throughout the development process. By integrating all tasks within the Visual Studio IDE, sharing information between teams and roles has never been easier.
• Team Collaboration Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Developers allows users come up to speed with the product quickly, without the need for excessive, expensive, and time consuming training and learning. Integration promotes better collaboration between IT operations and application development, resulting in greater business efficiencies and a more predictable development process.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005: Team Editions Comparison

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