MSDN Magazine - October 2008 - (Page 58) VENDOR-SPONSORED CONTENT From the UI to the Database: Deliver High-Quality Code Faster Announcing New Value for Visual Studio Team System Development Edition and Database Edition Customers with MSDN Subscriptions! Reality With a Dose of Visual Studio Team System Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition and Database Edition provide a set of tools that focuses on your role as a developer. Installed on the same machine, they integrate seamlessly into a single developer IDE that provide you access to the information you need, when you need it. They help you reduce the amount of work you have to put into an application up front and, maybe more importantly, the amount of work you have to do to maintain the application after it’s released. In October 2008, Microsoft announced that Development Edition will be combined with the Database Edition in a future version of Visual Studio. To enjoy the benefits of this change today, customers with active MSDN subscriptions for either Development Edition or Database Edition will be allowed to download and use the other edition at no additional charge. Please visit http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9440738 for more information on this change.This article refers to features that are available in both of these products. Be Productive Faster Most developers don’t get to spend all of their time writing new applications. Most of us have to maintain and extend an existing application. If you’ve worked with legacy code that you didn’t originally write, you know the pain of getting acquainted with business reasons for the application, understanding the object hierarchy and structure, and finally understanding the code itself. And the fun doesn’t end there. As with all code, some modules have more bugs than others, and in most cases, the prior developer was in a rush to complete the code and created a few more dependencies between functions than he or she should have. And now you’re on the hook to maintain it. In general it can take a good deal of time to understand enough about the code so you can be productive, but using Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition in conjunction with Database Edition you can start making effective changes in just a fraction of the time. First, you need to get a basic understanding of what the application does. Using Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition or Database Edition in conjunction with Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server, you can take a look at the overall requirements for the application. A quick perusal of the Scenario or Requirement work items for the application The Reality Development is hard work. You have to balance customer needs with technical requirements and a great deal of complexity in code. Writing code takes many specialized tools and you have to learn how to use all of those different tools which can take a lot of time. Modern development requires that you do more with less—less tools, less time and less support. You need a one-stop shop where you can get access to all of the tools you need to be more productive, build better quality code and collaborate with the appropriate stakeholders, but those tools need to be easy to learn and start providing benefit from Day One. Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 is an integrated suite of tools for the architect, developer, database developer, tester, project managers and project stakeholders for doing just this. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9440738
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