| Desription ......... Loaded with tons of bells and whistles designed to make life easier for development teams, Microsoft’s brilliant 2008 Architecture Edition of their Visual Studio Team System application gives software development teams the edge by allowing them to avoid unpredictable failures in networks and other distributed systems. This powerful edition is built upon the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) lets developers design using patterns, taking the pain out of coding. Architects, operations managers, and developers can initiate comprehensive pre-deployment validation of distributed systems using visually-constructed service oriented solutions. Microsoft’s stated purpose for this version of their Visual Studio Team System is to improve the design and validation of enterprise distributed systems, to facilitate successful deployment.
Visual Studio Team System 2008 Architecture Edition features: a Top Down Service Designer, for continuous, progressive improvement of system designs, with a visual interface that makes it easy to get a comprehensive visual view of your application designs. Save time with immediate verification of your development solutions before deploying them into your environment. Because Visual Studio Team System 2008 features pattern-based design, system architects, developers, and operation managers will save lots of time by implementing design elements like Smart Client, Entity Service, Workflow Service, and Service Agent. Visual Studio features integration with Visual C#, Visual C++, Visual Basic 2008 and Jscript 8.0, delivering tons of flexibility for programmers from any background. Other features include a high level of extensibility, tons of external tools for debugging and development (.NET development tools are just the tip of the iceberg), custom environment options, MSDN support documentation, 64 bit development – and much more. It’s no wonder that this snazzy Microsoft Visual Studio package is at the top of so many designers’ and developers’ wish lists.
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