MICROSOFT DEVELOPER AND DESIGNER TOOLS Product Guide

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1 MICROSOFT DEVELOPER AND DESIGNER TOOLS 2008 Product Guide

2 WELCOME HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE The Microsoft Developer and Designer Tools Product Guide provides an overview of each of the products that makes up the Microsoft Visual Studio and Microsoft Expression product lines. The color-coded tabs allow for quick access to the specific product pages containing product overviews, feature highlights, and usage scenarios. 3 DEVELOPER AND DESIGNER TOOLS PRODUCT GUIDE MICROSOFT TOOLS FOR APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN Solution Visual Studio Team System 2008 Summary Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 is an integrated Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solution that enables members of your team to collaborate and communicate more effectively, ensure software quality, and gain visibility into the software development lifecycle. Recommended For Cross-functional professional software development teams of any size and those implementing process improvement or an ALM strategy. Solution Visual Studio Professional & Standard Summary Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition empower individuals and small development teams with a full-featured development environment for building high-performance applications that take advantage of the latest technology while more effectively meeting business goals. Recommended For Individual professional developers and small development teams. Solution Microsoft Expression Studio Summary Microsoft Expression Studio is a suite of tools that gives designers the freedom to bring their vision to reality and collaborate with developers to deliver rich user experiences for the Web, Windows Vista -based applications, and beyond. Recommended For Graphic designers, user interface/interaction designers, Web developers, and Web designers, especially those designing Windows Presentation Foundation or Microsoft SilverlightTM user experiences. Solution MSDN Subscriptions Summary MSDN Subscriptions provide software assurance for Visual Studio and a wide variety of resources and technical support options to help development teams be more efficient, effective, and productive. With MSDN Subscriptions, development teams can have access to virtually all of Microsoft s operating systems, server products, and productivity applications to design, develop, test, and demonstrate your software application. Recommended For Individual professional developers and development teams.

3 VISUAL STUDIO 2008 PRODUCT FAMILY OVERVIEW Express Editions INTRODUCTION TO THE VISUAL STUDIO 2008 DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 is the development system for designing, developing, and testing next-generation Microsoft Windows-based solutions, Web applications, and services. By improving the user experience for Windows Vista, the 2007 Microsoft Office system, mobile devices, and the Web, Visual Studio 2008 helps individuals and organizations rapidly create and deliver complete, connected, comprehensive, and compelling software solutions with breakthrough user experiences. RAPID APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT From modeling to coding and debugging, Visual Studio 2008 delivers improved language, designer, editor, and data features that will help you experience a breakthrough in productivity. COLLABORATE ACROSS THE DEVELOPMENT CYCLE Visual Studio enables developers, designers, testers, architects, and project managers to work together through shared tools and process integration, which reduces the time to solution. CREATE OUTSTANDING USER EXPERIENCES Visual Studio 2008 offers developers new tools that speed creation of outstanding, highly personalized user experiences and connected applications using the latest platforms, including the Web, Windows Vista, Office 2007, Microsoft SQL ServerTM 2008, Windows Mobile, and Windows Server THE.NET FRAMEWORK 3.5 The.NET Framework 3.5 builds incrementally on the.net Framework 3.0. Enhancements have been made to feature areas, including the base class library, Windows Workflow Foundation, Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), and Windows CardSpaceTM. The.NET Framework enables the rapid construction of connected applications that provide outstanding user experiences by providing the building blocks (pre-fabricated software) for solving common programming tasks. Connected applications built on the.net Framework enable business processes to be modeled effectively and facilitate the integration of systems in heterogeneous environments. Together, Visual Studio and the.net Framework enable developers to reduce the need for common plumbing code, speed up development time, and concentrate on solving business problems. 5 DEVELOPER AND DESIGNER TOOLS PRODUCT GUIDE

4 VISUAL STUDIO TEAM SYSTEM Microsoft Visual Studio Team System is an integrated Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solution comprising tools, processes, and guidance to help development teams improve their skills and work more effectively together. Visual Studio Team System enables your development teams to collaborate and communicate more effectively, ensure software quality, and gain visibility into the software development lifecycle. 7 DEVELOPER AND DESIGNER TOOLS PRODUCT GUIDE VISUAL STUDIO TEAM SYSTEM

5 VISUAL STUDIO TEAM SYSTEM 2008 OVERVIEW MICROSOFT S SOLUTION FOR APPLICATION LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT (ALM) Building the right team and fostering a culture of continuous improvement are the foundation for success. You also need the right tools and processes in place for your team to do its best work. That s where Visual Studio Team System can help. OVERCOMING APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGES Whether you re part of an application development team or a business stakeholder who depends on IT for business-critical applications, you know firsthand some of the many challenges associated with application development. These challenges depend on the situation, but often include: Managing shifting business requirements throughout the project Communication gaps between project managers, developers, and testers Adequately testing applications for quality and reliability Gaining visibility into project status to make trade-off decisions and to drive predictable project delivery Dealing with global development and regulatory and compliance challenges These are not simple problems to overcome; many are interrelated and involve multiple team members and stakeholders. By systematically improving capabilities across your team, you can achieve dramatic improvements in your project success rates, better mitigate risks, and increase your overall impact to the business. Visual Studio Team System can help your team overcome these challenges in the following ways: COMMUNICATE AND COLLABORATE Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server enables team-wide collaboration by providing a unified team server for all project artifacts and support for team communication, including work-item tracking, reporting, version control, and more. ENSURE QUALITY, EARLY AND OFTEN Visual Studio Team System enables development teams to deliver the best software by introducing quality early and often with a quality-centric toolset at all stages of the application lifecycle. From tracking requirements during planning to load testing during quality assurance, Visual Studio Team System s comprehensive toolset helps make quality a top priority. MANAGE TEAM WORKFLOW All projects have detailed work plans. Work-item tracking is a flexible, efficient way to manage the work assignments and status across all team members. INTEGRATE WORK FREQUENTLY Visual Studio Team System provides a full-featured version control system, which supports continuous integration and scheduled builds, labeling, check-out on edit, and the ability to relate a work item to a check-in. USE FAMILIAR TOOLS All team members can use the tools they are already familiar with, such as Microsoft Office Excel and Microsoft Office Project for project managers, Visual Studio clients for architecture, testing, and development (including database development) and Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Web Access 2008 for all team members and business stakeholders. MAKE REAL-TIME DECISIONS Development teams will have all the real-time data they need at their fingertips, with a comprehensive business intelligence reporting system enabling critical decision making when it is most needed. DRIVE PREDICTABILITY Visual Studio Team System provides integrated process templates, enabling teams to deliver predictable results, continuously improve and adapt, and effectively collaborate and communicate with team members and stakeholders. Development teams can choose between Microsoft Solution Framework, or they can create their own. 9 DEVELOPER AND DESIGNER TOOLS PRODUCT GUIDE VISUAL STUDIO TEAM SYSTEM

6 VISUAL STUDIO TEAM SYSTEM 2008 Team Foundation Server WHAT S NEW IN 2008 Support for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 on any server and any port Support for Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 Improved performance, scalability, and security Easier installation and migration from other legacy systems Support for additional configurations, including clusters, mirrors, virtual machines, and more Continuous integration and scheduled builds New version control features Query builder usability improvements Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server is a team collaboration platform that 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. Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Web Access 2008* to provide access over the Web to version control, work-item tracking, status reports, and other team artifacts Version control to manage change to project artifacts 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 Customizable process templates to define your development process Integration with Office Excel and Office Project for project management Team portal for team collaboration Collaborate more effectively. Collaboration is a key attribute of successful teams. Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server is designed to help teams collaborate regardless of the organizational, physical, or geographical boundaries that separate them. Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server can support your entire organization on multiple tools, platforms, and technologies through standards-based Web services. When combined with partner solutions, Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server can also support development using other platforms and tools, including UNIX, Mac OS, and Eclipse. Manage team workflow and tasks with work-item tracking. Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server allows your team to track virtually anything out of box they work on, such as bugs, tasks, and requirements. Integration with Visual Studio development and testing features enables you to document your work with little extra effort. Work-item tracking is deeply integrated with version control and reporting to deliver comprehensive traceability and business intelligence capabilities. Work items are automatically tracked in reports and can be scheduled using Office Project, and lists of them can be exported to Office Excel for more analysis. You can easily use work items to prioritize work, make notes about dependencies, notify other teammates when a fix is in place or requires additional action. Use familiar tools such as Office Project, Office Excel, SharePoint, third-party tools, and Web browsers. Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server delivers project management tools based on the software that project managers already know. Through integration with Microsoft Office, project managers no longer need to map data from these applications to the data used by the development team. A project site provides stakeholders with a dashboard view and the ability to explore project data. The Portfolio Explorer integrates work products into the Visual Studio IDE for effective team access. Rich reports open up the metrics collected throughout the natural workflow of the team. A customizable project process based on industry-proven practices drives the lifecycle. Visual Studio Team System Web Access 2008* enables a rights-enabled user to access the project artifacts, including status reports, work items, and team builds over the Web using a browser. Drive predictability into the software development process using lightweight, customizable process and guidance. Process templates take process guidance out of books and put it into the tools you use every day. You can leverage industry-recognized best practices, like the Microsoft Solution Framework (MSF), or partner-provided process templates, such as Scrum. Process templates allow you to capture details about a team project, such as how to complete work-item fields, report templates, and describe queries. Process guidance also provides details about the process steps on a team project, such as role definitions and activities to complete. With Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server, you can gain consistency by starting each project based on a proven, successful blueprint. Make real-time decisions based on rich business intelligence and reporting. Reporting and business intelligence provides visibility into project activity, allowing you to make informed decisions based on real-time data. Individual work is aggregated into a SQL Server data warehouse to provide sophisticated progress, velocity, and trending reports that offer a holistic view of your project. These reports summarize the metrics from work items, source control, test results, and builds. For example, the reports can tell you if your team is progressing against plan or the quality indicators of an application. Work effectively as part of distributed and outsourced development teams. Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server includes Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server Proxy, a caching proxy that caches file content at the remote location, thereby providing a better user experience to the remote development team. Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server supports HTTP and HTTPS Web-based protocols and is optimized for highlatency and low-bandwidth scenarios. Often, teams on either side of a geographical boundary are on different corporate domains. Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server supports the scenario where Team Foundation Server Proxy and Team Foundation Server reside on different Windows domains DEVELOPER AND DESIGNER TOOLS PRODUCT GUIDE VISUAL STUDIO TEAM SYSTEM *Visual Studio Team System Web Access 2008 is available as a separate add-on.

7 VISUAL STUDIO TEAM SYSTEM 2008 Team Suite Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite provides multiple discipline team members with the ultimate set of tools for architecture, design, development, database development, and testing of applications. Team members can continuously learn new skills and utilize a complete set of tools and guidance at every step of the application lifecycle. 13 DEVELOPER AND DESIGNER TOOLS PRODUCT GUIDE WHAT S NEW IN 2008 Database development: Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition and related MSF process guidance are fully integrated into Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite. Development and test integration: Run profiling during load and test procedures for a system to see how it behaves, and use integrated tools to profile, debug, and tune. Visually architect, design, and validate Web-servicesbased distributed systems. Sound architectural decisions are the key to project success. Visual Studio Team System 2008 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 lifecycle. VISUAL STUDIO TEAM SYSTEM Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite integrates all the functions of the Microsoft Visual Studio Team Edition products to provide: Powerful visual designers for service-oriented solution modeling A complete set of quality tools for static analysis, code metrics, unit testing and code coverage, Web testing, and database testing Performance tools to identify issues and optimize your code Database development tools, including Schema Compare, to reduce risks associated with database schema changes, streamline changes, and take control of your database MSDN SUBSCRIPTIONS An MSDN Premium Subscription provides software assurance for Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite and includes a wide variety of resources and technical support options to help your development teams be more efficient, effective, and productive. Build better software using advanced code quality and performance tools. Visual Studio Team System 2008 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 lifecycle. Take control of database change with a foundation to reduce risk, ensure quality, and decrease deployment time. 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 System 2008 Team Suite provides the specific capabilities to help you reduce those risks, streamline changes, and take control of your database. Improve collaboration and communication with other team members using Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server.* All Visual Studio Team System Editions are deeply integrated with Visual Studio Team System 2008 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. *Requires Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server.

8 VISUAL STUDIO TEAM SYSTEM 2008 Architecture Edition 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. VISUAL STUDIO TEAM SYSTEM 2008 Database Edition 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. 15 DEVELOPER AND DESIGNER TOOLS PRODUCT GUIDE WHAT S NEW IN 2008 Top-down system design: Design business solutions before choosing technology. Conform to Web Services Description Language (WSDL): Update Web services to automatically conform to a WSDL contract. Web application projects: Generate and maintain Web Application Projects just as you create Web sites using visual designers. Architectural roles: Introduce elements that play specific predefined architectural roles within architectural patterns into the design. Application Designer to visually define service-oriented applications and generate code System Designer to compose applications into systems or reusable subsystems and validate the resulting configurations Deployment Designer to validate application designs against a target datacenter and identify issues before deployment begins Logical Datacenter Designer to visualize the logical structure of datacenters, specify operational policies, and validate applications prior to deployment MSDN SUBSCRIPTIONS An MSDN Premium Subscription provides software assurance for Visual Studio Team System 2008 Architecture Edition and includes a wide variety of resources and technical support options to help your development teams be more efficient, effective, and productive. Visually construct and design Web-services-based distributed systems. Using Distributed System Designers, software architects can construct and implement distributed applications rapidly. Software architects can also specify application configuration and operational requirements, alleviating the need to manually parse configuration files to specify Web service configuration information. Validate solutions against the operational environment early in the application lifecycle. Using the Distributed System Designers, architects, operations managers, and developers can visually design service-oriented solutions that can be validated against their operational environments to improve the success and lower the risk of deploying enterprise-class distributed systems. Increase probability of successful application deployment. Using the Distributed System Designers, software architects can specify all of the information necessary to deploy and operate a distributed system, including required resources, configuration, operational features, and policies. Simplify management and administration. Integrated partner solutions generate Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) Management Packs from the application design to simplify the management and administration of distributed applications. Operational events captured in MOM can automatically be published to the development team for further investigation. Improve collaboration and communication with other team members using Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server.* WHAT S NEW IN 2008 T-SQL static code analysis: Automatically review T-SQL code to help improve code quality and security. Dependency Tree: Visualize the dependencies (incoming/ outgoing) for selected objects in a new tool window. Schema reporting: Easily document your database schema. Refactoring tools: Automatically update and generate new code for operations including moving schemas, expanding select * SQL statements, and fully qualifying names in scripts. Data generator: Gain flexibility in generating data with new data generator and editors. Rename Refactoring support for database objects Schema Compare to keep two schema versions synchronized Data Compare to keep the data in two databases synchronized Offline database projects for change isolation Extensible unit test functionality Data generator to define sets of repeatable test data New designer enables users to create T-SQL with the same fidelity as managed code MSDN SUBSCRIPTIONS An MSDN Premium Subscription provides software assurance for Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition and includes a wide variety of resources and technical support options to help your development teams be more efficient, effective, and productive. Reduce the risks involved in making database schema changes. The Database Edition provides capabilities such as Rename Refactoring, Schema Compare and Data Compare to help you reduce those risks, streamline changes, and better control the integrity of your database throughout the development process. Ensure quality with database object unit testing and data generation for repeatable test data. Minor changes to the database can have significant effects on other areas of the application effects that may not be immediately apparent. Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition helps you systematically discover the impact of those changes throughout the development process by providing a fully extensible set of testing tools for your database. Team members can write tests either in T-SQL or managed code and run the tests independently or as part of the full application test suite using Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Edition. Improve collaboration and communication with other team members using Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server.* All Visual Studio Team System Editions are deeply integrated with Visual Studio Team System 2008 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. VISUAL STUDIO TEAM SYSTEM All Visual Studio Team System Editions are deeply integrated with Visual Studio Team System 2008 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. *Requires Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server.

9 VISUAL STUDIO TEAM SYSTEM 2008 Development Edition 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 lifecycle. VISUAL STUDIO TEAM SYSTEM 2008 Test Edition 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. 17 DEVELOPER AND DESIGNER TOOLS PRODUCT GUIDE WHAT S NEW IN 2008 Code metrics: Identify complex and error-prone code. Custom code correctness policies: Communicate to a developer why the check-in policies failed and provide guidance on how to pass the policy requirements. Hotpathing: Discover code paths that account for performance issues. Performance baseline comparison: Compare performance baseline reports to identify the source of performance regressions. Code analysis rules: Code analysis is more accurate with new and improved rules. Static code analysis to improve code quality and security New code metrics to identify error-prone code Code profiler to measure code performance and find performance bottlenecks Unit testing with code coverage to test code early and often and measure the effectiveness of your tests Check-in policies to ensure coding best practices* MSDN SUBSCRIPTIONS An MSDN Premium Subscription provides software assurance for Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition and includes a wide variety of resources and technical support options to help your development teams be more efficient, effective, and productive. Improve code quality with an advanced set of tools to identify inefficient, insecure, or poor-quality code. 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 everyone on the team write better-quality code, reduce security-related issues, and avoid bugs later in the development lifecycle. Optimize code performance and diagnose issues. Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition provides a method of profiling called sampling, which enables developers 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 with other team members using Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server.* All Visual Studio Team System Editions are deeply integrated with Visual Studio Team System 2008 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. WHAT S NEW IN 2008 Web and load test improvements, including: Web test validation rule improvements: Enable testers to create more comprehensive validation rules for the application being tested. Better Web test data binding: Bind CSV and XML data files, as well as databases, to a Web test using a simple databinding wizard. Improved load test results management: Open or remove an existing load test result from the load test repository. Load test summary report support: Multiple machine graphs support in the Load Test Analyzer. Web test recorder: Record AJAX requests and JavaScript pop-ups. Load Modeling: More closely simulate real-world usage of your Web applications with the new load-modeling tools. Comprehensive Web testing tools for Web services, HTTP, XML, and ASP.NET applications Load testing to simulate production loads and diagnose performance issues in labs and pre-production environments Code coverage to measure the effectiveness of your tests Integrated defect and test list management* MSDN SUBSCRIPTIONS An MSDN Premium Subscription provides software assurance for Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Edition and includes a wide variety of resources and technical support options to help your development teams be more efficient, effective, and productive. Ensure application quality with Web testing, load testing, and code coverage analysis. These tools provide coverage for Web services, HTTP, XML, and streamlined testing for ASP.NET applications. With Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Testers you can use automated record playback functionality to reduce ramp up and to create and execute repeatable and maintainable Web tests. Manage the test lifecycle with a unified view of test, code, and requirements.* With Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Edition, tests have the same lifecycle, and are managed in the same way as development code. You can manage a large number of test cases using the Test Manager Window, group and sort tests using attributes, or categorize into lists to manage as a single artifact. Full integration with Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server provides a single view of test, code, and requirement metrics to measure the effectiveness of test teams and tests for effective test planning, as well as customizable test process and workflow. Improve collaboration and communication with other team members using Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server.* All Visual Studio Team System Editions are deeply integrated with Visual Studio Team System 2008 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. VISUAL STUDIO TEAM SYSTEM *Requires Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server.

10 VISUAL STUDIO TEAM SYSTEM 2008 Test Load Agent Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Load Agent generates supplemental test load for use with the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Edition. It enables organizations to simulate more users and more accurately test the performance of Web applications and servers. 19 DEVELOPER AND DESIGNER TOOLS PRODUCT GUIDE Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Load Agent, which includes both agent and controller software, is highly extensible and customizable, giving testers an enormous amount of flexibility, including: Simulation of approximately 1,000 users per processor More accurate simulation and performance testing of Web applications and servers License that grants unlimited virtual user simulation per process (dual-core processors included) Tight integration with Visual Studio Team System Team Foundation Server, enabling test data to be incorporated into multiple types of analytic reports Size loads to match real-world conditions, helping ensure problems are caught and fixed before release. Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Load Agent helps developers and testers simulate production loads and diagnose performance issues early in the software development lifecycle. Improve the quality of service (QoS) of your applications. With Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Load Agent, you can ensure that your applications are tested against high load usages and ensure that your applications can better deliver the Quality of Service your customers demand. VISUAL STUDIO TEAM SYSTEM

11 VISUAL STUDIO 2008 PROFESSIONAL AND STANDARD EDITIONS Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition empower individuals and small development teams to deliver connected applications that take advantage of the latest technology while more effectively meeting business goals. 21 DEVELOPER AND DESIGNER TOOLS PRODUCT GUIDE VISUAL STUDIO PROFESSIONAL & STANDARD

12 VISUAL STUDIO 2008 Professional and Standard Editions BREAKTHROUGH SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGES Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition and Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition give individuals and small teams a full-featured development environment for building high-performance applications. Visual Studio s integrated development environment (IDE) enhancements reduce the complexity of building, managing, and deploying all types of applications, giving developers more time to focus on solving development challenges. Visual Studio supports several of the world s most popular programming languages, enabling programmers of all backgrounds to rapidly create outstanding user experiences. 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. VISUAL STUDIO 2008 Professional Edition Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition is a full-featured development environment that provides a superset of the functionality available in Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition. It is designed for individual professional developers or small teams to develop high-performance, connected applications with breakthrough user experiences. 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 Office system, SQL Server 2008, and Windows Mobile devices. 23 DEVELOPER AND DESIGNER TOOLS PRODUCT GUIDE Developers can use Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition to develop applications for Windows (including Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008), the Web, the Microsoft Office system, Windows Mobile devices, and SQL Server. Visual Studio Tools for Office is now a fully integrated part of Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition. Microsoft Office system applications become first-class projects in Visual Studio, enabling developers to make data and business processes available in applications with which their users are already familiar. Ideal for individual professional developers or small development teams Rapidly build lines of business applications. Target the Web or Windows, the Microsoft Office system, SQL Server, and mobile devices. Support development on multiple versions of the.net Framework. VISUAL STUDIO 2008 EXPRESS EDITIONS Microsoft Office Windows Web Server Mobile Ideal for individual professional developers Rapidly build lines of business applications. Target the Web or Windows. Support development on multiple versions of the.net Framework. Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions are free, simple, and easy-to-learn entry-level software development tools. Developed for beginners, Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions are perfect for building Windows applications and basic interactive Web sites. Learn more at WHAT S NEW IN 2008 Includes all the features in Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition. Ensure application correctness more easily with integrated unit testing. Create applications to target the Microsoft Office system with Visual Studio Tools for Office now integrated into Visual Studio Professional. Developers can customize Microsoft Office system applications to take advantage of Custom Task Panes and the Fluent Ribbon. Build mobile applications more easily with enhanced emulator functionality. Build applications for Windows, the Web, the Microsoft Office system, the.net Framework, SQL Server, and Windows Mobile with integrated drag-and-drop designers. Design complex Office Ribbons with the Ribbon Designer and the provided Ribbon controls. Form Regions created in Microsoft Office Outlook can be imported into Visual Studio for customization. Build applications to target SQL Server, including using Microsoft Visual Basic or Microsoft Visual C# code directly within the database. Developers can leverage rich design-time support for Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 in device projects. MSDN SUBSCRIPTIONS Developers can include MSDN Premium Subscription or MSDN Professional Subscription to complement Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition. An MSDN Subscription provides software assurance for Visual Studio Professional Edition and includes a wide variety resources and technical support options to help your development teams be more efficient and effective. Developers with Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition can take advantage of all the scenarios described for Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition, as well as those below. Verify applications more efficiently with integrated unit testing. Unit testing of applications is a best practice for finding many types of errors early in the development process. Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition now provides unit testing, previously available only in Visual Studio Team System products. Use the Microsoft Office system to put business information where your users already work. Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition now includes Visual Studio Tools for Office, which allows developers to build applications that easily integrate with the world s most popular productivity suite the Microsoft Office system. For example, developers can directly integrate enterprise resource planning (ERP) information into an Office Outlook task pane where a business decision maker can easily access it. Enable your users to take their applications with them with Windows Mobile. Enhancements in Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition make it easier than ever to create mobile applications. New device emulators automate testing scenarios, allowing you to simulate real-world changes in device state such as signal drop-off or a battery running out of power. Mobile developers can also take advantage of features like LINQ and unit testing to build applications more easily. Developers can now extend and integrate user experiences to rich media experiences delivered to any device that can access the Internet. VISUAL STUDIO PROFESSIONAL & STANDARD

13 VISUAL STUDIO 2008 Standard Edition Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition provides a full-featured development environment for Windows and Web developers. It offers productivity enhancements for building data-driven client and Web applications. Individual developers looking to create connected applications with next-generation user experiences will find Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition a perfect fit. 25 DEVELOPER AND DESIGNER TOOLS PRODUCT GUIDE WHAT S NEW IN 2008 Manage all types of data more smoothly. Build applications that utilize the latest Web technologies with improved support for AJAX and Web Controls and the Microsoft AJAX Library. Utilize data from any data source more smoothly with LINQ, a set of language extensions to Visual Basic and Visual C#. Manage and build applications that target multiple versions of the.net Framework. Use one tool to build applications for the.net Framework versions 2.0, 3.0, and 3.5. Use data from any data source more smoothly with LINQ, a set of language extensions to Visual Basic and Visual C#. LINQ aims to reduce complexity for developers and help boost their productivity through a set of extensions to the Visual C# and Visual Basic programming languages and the.net Framework, which provide integrated querying for objects, databases, and XML data. Using LINQ, developers can write queries natively in Visual C# or Visual Basic without having to use specialized languages such as SQL and XPath. Build stunning user experiences with integrated designers for Windows Presentation Foundation. Experiences built with WPF can interoperate seamlessly with Windows Forms. Create connected applications using new visual designers for Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Workflow Foundation. Editor features, such as Edit and Continue and Microsoft IntelliSense, simplify the cycle of designing, developing, and debugging an application. Deploy client applications easily with ClickOnce, which enables developers and IT Pros to deploy an application and its prerequisites and then ensure the application remains up-to-date. Building Web applications is easy with support for cascading style sheets (CSS), JavaScript, IntelliSense, and split-view designers. Build rich, interactive Web sites. Building AJAX-enabled applications is made significantly faster and easier by the addition of ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 and, IntelliSense, and debugging support for JavaScript 8.0. Developers can also take advantage of a rich Web designer that is much faster, easier to use, and more flexible with the new split-view editing. Connect applications more easily. Visual Studio 2008 enables developers to create great connected applications using the.net Framework 3.5. New designers for Windows Workflow Foundation help developers orchestrate behavior across services and to visualize, create, edit, and debug workflow tasks and dependencies. Windows Communication Foundation provides a set of technologies for securely building and running connected systems with a focus on Web services. With Visual Studio 2008, developers can use RAD tools to quickly and easily create client connections and proxies to existing services, and test them without needing to write code. In addition, developers can use the same techniques and tools for consuming Windows Communication Foundation services, no matter where they are located. Design compelling user experiences using the Windows Presentation Foundation. Windows Presentation Foundation provides the foundation for building the user interface of applications and high-fidelity experiences on Windows. With new designers integrated into Visual Studio 2008, developers can build stunning new user experiences with media integration while still leveraging investments that they ve made in Windows Forms. Visual Studio 2008 and the Expression suite of products were designed to work together so that developers and designers can seamlessly collaborate on the same projects. VISUAL STUDIO PROFESSIONAL & STANDARD

14 MICROSOFT EXPRESSION STUDIO Design and development are one. Introducing Microsoft Expression Studio, tools for creative professionals that give you the freedom to bring your vision to reality. The design process is a critical stage of application development. Expression Studio and XAML, a key technology of Windows Presentation Foundation and Silverlight, make collaboration between developers and designers easier, helping them work together to build the next generation of software and Web applications. 27 DEVELOPER AND DESIGNER TOOLS PRODUCT GUIDE EXPRESSION STUDIO

15 MICROSOFT EXPRESSION STUDIO Expression Studio provides a set of professional design tools and innovative technologies that give designers the flexibility and freedom to create standards-based Web sites, build rich user experiences on the desktop, and manage digital assets and content. It provides a toolset for linking development teams using Visual Studio Team System 2008 to creative teams designing application interfaces, Web sites, and other visual and interactive content. With four complete products Microsoft Expression Design, Microsoft Expression BlendTM, Microsoft Expression Web, and Microsoft Expression Media designers and developers can deliver more effective experiences to end users. And, Expression Studio files can be viewed and modified in Visual Studio 2008, allowing designers and developers to work together like never before. WORK THAT REALLY FLOWS When design and development are part of a seamless workflow, great things happen. Expression Studio gives your team new ways to work together, whether you re creating desktop software or rich Web experiences. Desktop Application Standards-based Web Site Rich Web Video Graphic Design Web Design 29 DEVELOPER AND DESIGNER TOOLS PRODUCT GUIDE POWERFUL TOOLS FOR CREATIVE PROFESSIONALS With Expression Blend and Expression Design, you can create Windows-based applications that deliver better experiences to your users desktops. Expression Web features built-in support for today s Web standards, including XHTML, CSS, XML, and XSLT. That means it s easy to design sites that just work on any browser. Light up your next Web site with Microsoft Silverlight. Use Expression Encoder to enhance, encode, and publish rich video experiences for both Windows and Mac.* Whether you re working in Expression Web, Expression Design, or Expression Blend, Expression Media makes it easy to keep your digital assets organized. Rename, convert, tag, and search hundreds of files with a click of the mouse. Expression Studio brings design and development together in one virtual playground. Design elements like video, 3D models, and vector art are combined with full support for the latest Microsoft development tools and platforms. Art fueled by science all in one box. Count on Expression Media to keep all your files nice and neat, no matter which programs you use. XAML UI Design XHTML, CSS, XSLT, JavaScript, ASP.NET XAML Development Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista Applications Deployment Platforms Standards-based Web Site For Web Video Delivery EXPRESSION STUDIO *Expression Encoder and Silverlight require Internet download.

16 MICROSOFT EXPRESSION DESIGN With Expression Design, you can create compelling vector art and illustrations for applications for Windows and the Web. MICROSOFT EXPRESSION BLEND With Expression Blend, you can design next-generation interfaces for applications that combine the best of the Web with the full power of the desktop. 31 DEVELOPER AND DESIGNER TOOLS PRODUCT GUIDE Bring your vision to life with flexible vector drawing. Apply non-destructive Live Effects to any object or image, such as drop shadow and bevel. Use standard formatted graphics from other applications, or open vector art from other graphic tools. Export vector and bitmap artwork to XAML format for use in Expression Blend projects. Create buttons, backgrounds, and other image assets to use in Expression Web, Visual Studio, or other authoring tools. Design and draw efficiently with object formatting that updates in real time and asset galleries that offer what you need when you need it. Unleash your creativity. Start with an idea and use innovative vector drawing tools to watch your vision spark into life. Apply non-destructive effects to either vector or imported bitmapped images. Maintain the flexibility of vector paths, while using both hard-edged and organic strokes. At long last, vectors and pixels are getting along. Be part of the future. When you re defining the next generation of software applications, collaboration is critical. Graphic designers, UI designers, and developers get to showcase their talents, enhance their ideas, and create deeper user experiences. The power of XAML keeps everyone working and playing better together. Stay true to your vision. When you ve achieved a look you really love, it can be hard to hand it off to others. Now you can be confident that your designs maintain their integrity when the elements are distributed. Build your assets in Expression Design, export them as XAML, and give them life with the interactive features of Expression Blend. Your final products look better than ever. Compose vector and bitmap artwork, video, audio, rich text, controls, and containers with sophisticated WYSIWYG design tools. Bind your interface elements to each other, to user input, or to data from Web services and.net objects, so your objects update dynamically and your application comes to life even before you write code. Share projects with Visual Studio to add depth and advanced functionality to your applications. Edit XAML code directly with colored syntax highlighting. Maintain quality and vision when converting your prototype files to final products because the Expression family and Visual Studio speak the same language. Leverage existing external resources by importing and referencing.net code libraries through simple drag-anddrop actions. Create compelling user experiences for Windows. Deliver better usability and user experiences that pack the power of the.net Framework and incorporate both online and offline data capabilities. Now your users can sync with the Web and take your applications virtually anywhere. Create engaging multimedia user interfaces. Broaden the potential of your designs. Create compelling user interface designs that use a full spectrum of media types, including vector and pixel art, video, audio, text, 3D, and animation. Work within a rich, real-time design environment designed to shorten the distance between idea and execution. Add interactivity to your designs without writing code. Codeless interactivity is built into Expression Blend. Fully customizable controls let you create design elements from simple graphical buttons to sophisticated custom views of data. Link interface elements to each other or to live data. Simply drag and drop to add custom code or controls to your application. Collaborate with confidence. Harness the power of XAML and the.net Framework to ensure the designs you create in Expression Blend carry through to the final Visual Studio project. Your designs can be used intact in the final product, so you keep creative control. EXPRESSION STUDIO

17 MICROSOFT EXPRESSION WEB Expression Web gives you all the tools you need to produce high-quality, standards-based Web sites. MICROSOFT EXPRESSION MEDIA With Expression Media, your digital universe is within easy reach. Import more than 100 media types. Find files fast, wherever they are. Deliver Web video with Silverlight. 33 DEVELOPER AND DESIGNER TOOLS PRODUCT GUIDE What you see is what they get. Keep projects organized with dynamic Web template and ASP.NET 2.0 Master Page support. Deliver more features with JavaScript behaviors support. Create pages more easily with XML drag-and-drop support. Harness the power of CSS with drag-and-drop CSS rule application and management. Develop faster with IntelliSense for HTML, CSS, XSL, JScript, JavaScript, VBScript, and ASP.NET. Render ASP.NET Controls. Optimize HTML with a variety of tools. Extend the value of Expression Web with third-party add-ins. Deliver standards-based sites, by default. Expression Web builds sites according to today s standards, including XHTML, CSS, XML, and XSLT. For Web designers, that means better rendering in browsers, more relevant indexing in search engines, enhanced productivity, and more. Give your creativity new legs. Accurate page rendering in the design environment gives you full creative freedom. Expression Web switches from standards to quirks rendering, depending on the doctype in use. You ll have confidence that your designs will translate perfectly from your design tool to the browser. Present XML data your way. Working visually with XML data has never been easier. Drag and drop an XML file and watch as it s immediately rendered by an XSL stylesheet that can be reformatted to match any site s style. Now you can easily include, filter, and sort data from any XML source. Do more with your sites. Expression Web combines the power of design and development with Visual Studio compatibility and support for ASP.NET Add up to 128,000 files per catalog, with support for over 120 file formats. Find files across all hard drives, CDs, or media cards, and save popular searches to use again later. Search, browse, or annotate catalogs even when the original assets are offline. Your changes will be synchronized later. Work on Windows or Macintosh platforms and share catalogs on either operating system. Import RAW format files from most camera manufacturers using Windows Imaging Component (Windows) and Core Image processing (Mac OS). Rename, resize, or reformat hundreds of files at a time with batch-processing and scripting features. Prepare and encode high-quality video in several formats with Expression Encoder, including Silverlight, for Webbased delivery.* Effortlessly organize your media. Work with all your Expression Studio assets and import more than 100 media formats. Store files anywhere: shared folders, CDs, hard drives, or DVDs. Integrated search tools mean you can find files in seconds wherever they are. Edit and enhance images. Save time by using Expression Media for basic image editing and enhancement tasks like resizing and red-eye removal. Batch processing lets you work with multiple files easily, while version control gives you the freedom to experiment. Wow-worthy presentation and delivery. Publish and distribute polished slide shows, video, and Web galleries. Or quickly export media into multiple formats for client delivery. Express your own style via dozens of customizable presentation templates. Deliver high-quality video experiences with Silverlight. Easily import WMV, WMA, AVI, QuickTime, and additional video formats into Expression Encoder; fine-tune your VC-1 settings; and choose your favorite Web video player template. Light up your Web site with Silverlight.* Today s sites use cascading style sheets to separate design from content. The design-focused tools in Expression Web simplify this complex technology and put you in complete control. From visual drag-and-drop margin and padding control to a visual hierarchy of style applications, it s easy to take charge of your design. EXPRESSION STUDIO *Expression Encoder and Silverlight require Internet download.

18 MSDN SUBSCRIPTIONS MSDN Subscriptions provide software assurance for Visual Studio 2008 and include a wide variety of resources and technical support options to help your development team be more efficient, effective, and productive. With MSDN Subscriptions, your team can get new versions of Microsoft products as they are released as well as continuous access to the latest tools. These resources enable team members such as project managers, software developers, testers, software architects, database administrators, and QA engineers to operate as productively as possible throughout the software development cycle no matter what kind of development tools they use. 35 DEVELOPER AND DESIGNER TOOLS PRODUCT GUIDE MSDN SUBSCRIPTIONS

19 MSDN SUBSCRIPTIONS MSDN Subscriptions equip your development team with a wide variety of essential resources and technical support options to complement Visual Studio. Various levels of MSDN Subscriptions are available. MSDN Operating Systems is available as a standalone subscription providing access to the latest Microsoft operating systems. MSDN Professional Subscriptions can be purchased with Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition. MSDN Premium Subscriptions can be purchased with either Visual Studio Professional Edition or with Visual Studio Team System products. 37 DEVELOPER AND DESIGNER TOOLS PRODUCT GUIDE MSDN Subscriptions provide development teams with a wealth of support resources throughout the software development lifecycle in the manner that best meets their needs, including: Access to huge range of current, past, and pre-release future versions of virtually all Microsoft products, such as operating systems, sever products, and productivity applications to design, develop, test, and demonstrate your software application. Unlimited use of MSDN Managed Newsgroups, offering a guaranteed response from a Microsoft engineer within two days. Up to four Technical Support Incidents with business-critical service especially for professional developers. Personal assistance navigating MSDN online with the MSDN Online Concierge. Exclusive partner offers and benefits, such as free print subscriptions to MSDN Magazine published by CMP Media. Access to over two gigabytes of continually updated content in the MSDN Library. Design During the design phase, software architects can use design tools such as Microsoft Office Visio (included in MSDN Subscriptions for general business use) to design the application architecture. Team members can determine appropriate technologies and products by accessing technical documentation and reference guides in the MSDN Library. This helps ensure that your team is well prepared for a successful development project. Develop As the project moves into the development phase, the development team can access a wealth of support resources and tools, such as Visual Studio, Visual Studio Tools for Office, sample code, Software Development Kits (SDKs), Driver Development Kits (DDKs), and mobile development platforms. Test MSDN subscribers have the broadest access to Microsoft software, including old, new, and unreleased future versions, enabling testers to ensure applications run smoothly on a variety of platforms. Products are offered in all available editions and international language versions, enabling team members to create virtually any environment imaginable. Demonstrate MSDN Subscriptions enable team members to turn ideas into reality, taking a vision and turning it into a proof of concept. Team members can demonstrate the value of applications developed and be able to simulate the target environments. Manage MSDN Subscriptions enable team members to manage the development project with products such as Office Project Standard. MSDN SUBSCRIPTIONS