Products

• Visual Studio 2008 Team System with MSDN Subscription
   
• Visual Studio 2008 - Why Upgrade?
   
• Visual Studio 2008 whitepaper (pdf)
   
• Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Edition Comparison
   

Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition

A comprehensive development environment for professional developers.

Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition is a comprehensive set of tools that accelerates the process of turning the developer’s vision into reality. Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition was engineered to support development projects that target the Web (including ASP.NET AJAX), Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, the 2007 Microsoft Office system, SQL Server 2008, and Windows Mobile devices. The number of platforms that developers must target to meet business needs is increasing rapidly. Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition provides the integrated toolset for addressing all of these needs by providing a superset of the functionality available in Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition.

Today’s developers face the challenge of targeting a broad range of platforms and crafting applications that quickly deliver value to the business. Integrated designers and language features in Visual Studio allow developers to build the connected applications demanded by today’s businesses while taking advantage of the .NET Framework 3.5 to reduce development time.

Deliver high-performance applications
Connect to the data you need, regardless of its location, and build data driven applications using Language Integrated Query (LINQ).

Build great client applications
Develop compelling solutions that leverage the user experience and capabilities of the 2007 Microsoft Office system and Windows Vista®.

Build powerful Web applications
Build rich, interactive applications using the ASP.NET AJAX interactive Web interfaces.

Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition System Requirements

Requirements vary for different combinations of components within Visual Studio 2008 Professional Editions. To install Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition, you need:

• Computer with a 1.6 GHz or faster processor
• Visual Studio 2008 can be installed on the following operating systems:
  • Windows Vista® (x86 & x64) - all editions except Starter Edition
  • Windows® XP (x86 & x64) with Service Pack 2 or later - all editions except Starter Edition
  • Windows Server® 2003 (x86 & x64) with Service Pack 1 or later (all editions)
  • Windows Server 2003 R2 (x86 and x64) or later (all editions)
• 384 MB of RAM or more (768 MB of RAM or more for Windows Vista)
• 2.2 GB of available hard-disk space
• 5400 RPM hard drive
• 1024 x 768 or higher-resolution display
• DVD-ROM Drive
• Additional features may require Internet access. Fees may apply.

Visual Studio 2008 Team System Editions
 

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.

From a product perspective, Visual Studio Team System consists of a server and a suite of client product editions:

Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server

Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server is an integrated collaboration server for Visual Studio Team System. It combines team portal, version control, work item tracking, build management, process guidance and business intelligence into a unified server. It allows everyone on the team to collaborate more effectively and deliver better quality software.

Team Foundation Server helps your software development teams work better together while being more effective delivering solutions aligned with your business needs. Teams are empowered to do great work with services for version control, build, work item tracking, planning, and reporting integrated into a single, secure collaboration platform. Projects managed in Team Foundation Server benefit from integrated process workflows and guidance—both custom-defined and industry-recognized best-practices—to ensure predictable, successful results. Team Foundation Server was designed from the ground-up for performance and reliability, maximum customization and partner-integration, and minimal administrative overhead by leveraging existing technologies such as Microsoft SQL Server, Windows SharePoint Services and Internet Information Server.

Gain better predictability and quality
Enable team members to continuously integrate and improve their work by automating builds, executing tests, and providing real-time performance and quality metric reporting throughout the development life cycle.

Take control of your code
Take greater control of your code by getting the latest version on checkout, comparing branches, annotating code, and tracking your workspaces.

Simplify administration, operations, and setup
Simplify project management across your organisation through integrated Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007, easier setup, and support for more users.

Feature Highlights

• Version control to manage change to project artefacts
• Work-item tracking to communicate and manage work across the team
• Team build to regularly integrate your team’s work together
• Reporting and business intelligence on project status, performance, and quality metrics
• Customisable process templates to define your development process
• Integration with Office Excel and Office Project for project management
• Team portal for team collaboration
  
  

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite provides multi-disciplined team members with an integrated set of tools for architecture, design, development, database development and testing of applications. Team members can continuously collaborate and utilize a complete set of tools and guidance at every step of the application life cycle. Team Suite includes all of the functionality found in:

Microsoft 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.

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition
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 team members write better-quality code, reduce security-related issues, and avoid bugs later in the development life cycle.

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition
provides advanced tools for database change management and testing and offers functionality to enable database developers and administrators to be more productive and increase application quality in the database tier.

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Edition
provides a comprehensive suite of testing tools for Web applications and services that are integrated into the Visual Studio environment. These testing tools enable testers to author, execute, and manage tests and related work items—all from within Visual Studio. In addition, Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Load Agent generates additional test loads for Web application load testing.

Team System is an extensible platform that provides for customization and enables integration with third-party tools. The Visual Studio Industry Partner Program includes over 200 partners offering more than 400 supplemental products to support a broad range of software processes, tools (including Java environments such as Eclipse), and platforms (such as UNIX and Mac OS).
 

MSDN Subscriptions

MSDN Subscriptions provide software maintenance for Visual Studio and can help your development teams to be more efficient, effective, and productive. MSDN subscriptions provide a cost-effective way to license Microsoft platforms and tools, receive technical support, and gain priority access to new versions of Microsoft products, including Microsoft operating systems, server software, and productivity applications. MSDN Subscriptions perfectly complement Visual Studio with resources that help support your teams every step of the way.

With a MSDN Subscription you can access*:

• Developer Tools
• Development and Test licenses
• Exclusive access to pre-release products
• Licenses for general business use
• Technical Support Incidents
• Managed Newsgroups Support
• Online Concierge
• MSDN Library
• MSDN Magazine
• MSDN Flash
• Discounted Microsoft and MSDN events tickets
• Partner offerings

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