Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite (with MSDN Premium)

The Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite combines each of the Visual Studio Team System products-Microsoft Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Architects, Microsoft Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Developers, and Microsoft Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Testers-into a comprehensive life-cycle management tool that addresses the needs of multifunctional roles in an organization.

Microsoft Visual Studio Team Suite combines the functionality from all four Visual Studio Team System role-based editions (Team Editions for Architects, Developers, Database Professionals, and Testers) to offer a fully comprehensive development environment for multi-disciplined team members.

• Architect and Design Distributed Systems - Sound architectural decisions are the key to project success. Visual Studio Team Suite 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.
• Optimize Performance and Diagnose Issues - The performance tools in Visual Studio Team Suite 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 2005. These efforts produced the profiling and performance technologies that are now offered as part of Visual Studio Team System.
• Ensure Software Quality - Visual Studio Team Suite provides a complete set of quality tools to help team members write better code, reduce security-related issues and avoid bugs and quality issues later in the development life cycle.
• Take Control of Database Change - By reducing the risks involved in making database schema changes you can better control the integrity of your database throughout the development process. Visual Studio Team Suite provides the specific capabilities to help you reduce those risks, streamline changes, and take control of your database.
• 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.

With the Visual Studio Team Suite, you can design for operations, ensure quality early and often, and ensure mission-critical performance of your solutions. When coupled with the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server, you will be able to communicate and collaborate more effectively with the rest of your team, all while driving greater predictability and efficiency throughout your organization's development process.

• Includes all three role-based products (Architect, Developer, and Tester) for easy management of life cycle for all roles:
  • Seamlessly work with all three tools
  • Facilitates collaboration
• Integrated Web services modeling tools that will enable you to design for operations.
• Code quality and performance tools for building mission-critical applications.
• Load testing tools for helping meet the rigorous performance demands of enterprise class applications.roles:
• Customize Visual Studio with your own internal tools or use supplemental products from more than 190 Microsoft partners.

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.

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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