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CUSTOMER PAIN POINTS 1. I NEED TO HAVE MULTIPLE VERSIONS OF VISUAL STUDIO INSTALLED IF I M MAINTAINING APPLICATIONS THAT RUN ON MORE THAN ONE VERSION OF THE.NET FRAMEORK.

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1 CUSTOMER PAIN POINTS 1. I NEED TO HAVE MULTIPLE VERSIONS OF VISUAL STUDIO INSTALLED IF I M MAINTAINING APPLICATIONS THAT RUN ON MORE THAN ONE VERSION OF THE.NET FRAMEORK. THAT S TAKING UP SPACE ON MY HARDDRIVE AND SLOWING DOWN MY COMPUTER AFFECTING MY PRODUCTIVITY With previous versions of Visual Studio, you could build applications that ran on only one version of the.net Framework Now you can use one tool Visual Studio 2008 and build applications that work with.net Framework versions 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5 Choose the version of the Framework you d like to work with and Visual Studio 2008 will adapt the projects and settings available for that version of the Framework only. This is a key customer pain point. Easily upgrade your software from.net Framework 2.0 / 3.0 to.net Framework 3.5 due to the additive upgrade path. 2. I NEED TO BE AN EXPERT IN TOO MANY TECHNOLOGIES JUST TO WORK WITH RELATIONAL DATABASES, XML AND FILE BASED DATA. I SPEND TOO MUCH TIME JUST GETTING THE DATA INTO A FORM I CAN EFFECTIVELY QUERY AND USE IN MY CODE, LET ALONE ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING USEFUL WITH THE DATA. Language-Integrated Query lets you use a single model to query and transform XML, SQL Server and object data, helping you focus on what you need the data to do rather than how you are going to access the data. You can focus on the what rather than the how. Be more productive by using a single approach to querying and manipulating data that s integrated with the way you write code in the programming language. Visual Basic and C# languages have been extended to understand data sources and query semantics so that you can now write queries against an object and class rather than passing a string written in another domain language (e.g. Structured Query Language) and having to manipulate the result back into objects and structures that your program can understand Microsoft believes that the productivity improvement of having a unified query model for developers will change the way applications are written and help make developers more productive 3. THE NEW OFFICE SYSTEM INTERFACE IS GETTING A LOT OF ACCEPTANCE WITH MY CUSTOMERS. I D LIKE TO BE ABLE TO MAKE THEM PART OF MY APPLICATIONS AS USERS ARE FAMILIAR WITH OFFICE BUT VISUAL STUDIO DOESN T WORK WITH OFFICE With Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition, Tools for Office development are now included. Tools for Office development used to be a standalone version of Visual Studio and did not target Office System Now you can build and deploy your Office based applications just like a Windows application Built in tools help making Office look and feel interfaces like the fluent ribbon quick and easy Click-Once deployment for applications that you build for Office using Visual Studio 2008 means that users can get updates to your application automatically and from a single distribution point that means you won t need to go to each customer workstation and update your application code, a server distribution point and the Click-Once technology will take care of updates.

2 4. TESTING IS A PART OF MY DEVELOPMENT PROCESS I TEST EVERY FUNCTION I WRITE AND NEED TO LEAVE VISUAL STUDIO TO RUN THE TESTS. THIS IS NOT PRODUCTIVE. Powerful unit testing tools are now integrated directly into Visual Studio Professional Our unit testing tools that we available in the Visual Studio Team Development edition have been brought into the Professional edition to acknowledge the integral role of testing to the development process, even for individual developers. 5. BUILDING WEB SITES AND NICE LOOKING APPLICATIONS IS TOUGH FOR ME AS A DEVELOPER, I OFTEN WORK WITH A GRAPHIC DESIGNER AND A WEB UI DESIGNER TO MAKE MY APPLICATIONS LOOK MODERN AND COMPELLING FOR THE USER. THIS MEANS WORKING WITH GRAPHICAL ELEMENTS LIKE CSS AND HTML LAYOUT THAT I THEN HAVE TO BRING INTO VISUAL STUDIO. I DREAD CHANGE TO THE DESIGN AS IT MEANS LOTS OF REWORK TO WIRE MY APPLICATION CODE TO THE USER INTERFACE AGAIN Microsoft has released a new family of tools for designers called Microsoft Expression Both Microsoft Expression Web (HTML/ASP.NET)and Microsoft Expression Blend (WPF) design elements can now be brought into and out of Visual Studio without modification of the code behind these elements. This means that developers and designers can collaborate with more confidence and without fear of a breaking change when user interface design has to be modified. 6. SINCE WINDOWS VISTA HAS BEEN RELEASED, I VE SEEN SOME VERY GOOD LOOKING APPLICATIONS BUT IN VISUAL STUDIO 2005, THE TOOLS AREN T THERE TO HELP ME BUILD APPLICATIONS THAT TAKE ADVANTAGE OF WPF AND VISTA Visual Studio 2008 enables you to build powerful Windows based applications that take advantage of both the existing Windows Forms technology and the new Windows Presentation Foundation libraries. Smart Client application improvements mean that your Windows applications can be made to work in both connected and disconnected network environments, perfect for building applications for travelling sales, health care, auditing and a myriad other applications that need access to data offline and online. Improvements to the Click-Once deployment technology will help you distribute new versions or updates to your smart client applications. 7. THE HTML SUPPORT IN VISUAL STUDIO IS PRETTY DATED, I CAN T WORK WITH CASCADING STYLE SHEETS WHICH ARE A BIG PART OF MY USER INTERFACE WHEN I M BUILDING RICH INTERNET APPLICATIONS New ASP.NET and AJAX framework features will help you build rich internet applications that use browser-server client techniques like JSON and XML/HTTP. An updated HTML editor within Visual Studio 2008 will enable you to work in split design/code view for your HTML or ASP.NET pages so that you can see the changes your code makes right away. New ASP.NET controls allow for better page management and templates RSS and REST natively supported by the Windows Communication Foundation means you can connect to service based applications written with the.net Framework 3.5 on the server from within your rich internet application.

3 8. RICH INTERNET APPLICATIONS ARE A REAL DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGE FOR ME AS I HAVE TO WORK WITH CODE THAT RUNS IN THE BROWSER AS WELL AS SERVER SIDE COMMUNICATION. THAT MEANS LOADS OF JAVASCRIPT AND USING THE BROWSER DOCUMENT OBJECT MODEL. THAT S IMPOSSIBLE TO DEBUG AND I NEED TO USE 3 RD PARTY TOOLS FOR EDITING JAVASCRIPT Visual Studio 2008 now has JavaScript IntelliSense. This means that Visual Studio will provide productivity enhancement tools like AutoComplete, parameter info, bookmarks and function lookups while you code. Visual Studio 2008 will also enable cross-browser debugging of your client side JavaScript so that you can set breakpoints and watch variables, helping you meet the challenges of browser/server application development. 9. THE.NET FRAMEWORK 3.0 WAS RELEASED AROUND THE TIME OF WINDOWS VISTA AND INCUDED SOME NEW COMMUNICATION AND WORKFLOW FUNCTIONALITY. I HAVEN T BEEN ABLE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THESE FEATURES TO DATE. Visual Studio has built in tools for developing business logic using Windows Workflow Foundation enables modeling of real-world business process in software. This includes a workflow designer, project templates and a workflow debugger. Built in tools for implementing communications software with Windows Communication Foundation providing support for a wide array of transports and protocols. 10. I REMBER HAVING TO UPDATE VISUAL STUDIO 2005 QUITE OFTEN AND STABILITY WAS AN ISSUE FOR SOME DEVELOPERS. I M NOT SURE THAT THIS NEW RELEASE WILL BE STABLE ENOUGH FOR ME TO SHIFT TO. Visual Studio 2008 represents the highest quality Visual Studio release ever. The product team implemented new quality checks and balances and the bug count for this release has been the lowest of any Visual Studio product in history.

4 VISUAL STUDIO TEAM SYSTEM 1. WE TRY AND FOLLOW A DEVELOPMENT METHODOLOGY FOR OUR SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS BUT THE RULES AND POLICY IS DIFFICULT TO ENFORCE. Visual Studio Team System provides support for process across the development life-cycle. Both CMMI and Agile methods are provided with the product and customizing or creating your own policies is also possible. 2. OUR DEVELOPERS AND TESTERS USE A SINGLE SOURCE CONTROL PRODUCT BUT WE HAVE NO COLLABORATION ACROSS THE BUG TRACKING, PROJECT MANAGEMENT OR REQUIREMENTS SYSTEMS. Team Foundation Server has the concept of work items that can be associated with any check-in to the repository. You can think of work items as a to-do list for whole team to get the project completed. Work items are shared from within Visual Studio and via the web so that the whole development team can track, update and contribute to work within the project. 3. OUR PROJECT HAS HUNDREDS OF DIFFERENT FILES ASSOCIATED WITH IT AND WE HAVE A MIX- MATCH OF STORAGE LOCATIONS LIKE SERVER FILE SHARES, , SHAREPOINT SITES AND PERSONAL HARD DRIVES. ITS PRETTY MUCH IMPOSSIBLE TO SEARCH AND SHARE THESE FILES BETWEEN TEAM MEMBERS. Visual Studio Team System provides a single repository for storing all manner of project artifacts. From video to word documents you can store items within Team Foundation Server, associate the file to a work item and have single, reference-able location across the entire team. 4. AS OUR DEVELOPERS COMPLETE THEIR WORK, WE RE FINDING MORE AND MORE BUGS. WE CAN T SEEM TO GET TESTING AND QUALITY ENFORCED EARLIER IN THE PROCESS TO MINIMIZE BUGS AT THE END OF THE DEVELOPMENT PHASE WHICH CAUSES US TO MISS OUR DEADLINES. Quality early and often is a design philosophy that Visual Studio Team System emphasizes. With built in unit testing for developers to policy enforcement and support for change-sets, Team System addresses quality up-front and across all roles in the project. 5. INTEGRATING THE SUB PARTS OF OUR DEVELOPMENT EFFORT IS ANOTHER CONSTANT HEADACHE FOR OUR TEAM. INCOMPLETE, INCORRECT OR MISSING INTERFACES BREAK THE BUILD AND CAUSE HOURS OF PAIN FOR THE DEVELOPERS. The Visual Studio Team System Foundation Server now supports the concept of continuous integration. A build can be triggered upon several events, code check-in being one of them. An integration build checks to ensure the code will integrate with other parts of the system and reports back if a check-in breaks the build. Continuous Integration support means that developers will know far more quickly that their changes have affected the build stability and give them the opportunity to correct the problem much earlier in the process.

5 6. OUR PROJECT MANAGEMENT TEAM HAVE TO USE DIFFERENT TOOLS TO CHECK ON PROGRESS OF THE WHOLE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT. THIS MEANS HAVING TO MASTER UNFAMILIAR TOOLS JUST TO GET AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE CURRENT STATUS. With Visual Studio Team System, project managers and project team members that don t check-in code or participate first hand in the software development process can check on work-item status, builds, bugs team calendars and discussions from within a browser environment. 7. PROJECT MANAGEMENT CALLS TOO MANY MEETINGS JUST TO CHECK ON WHERE WE RE AT IN THE PROCESS. THIS TAKES UP PRECIOUS TIME AND DISTRACTS TEAM MEMBERS FROM DOING WHAT THEY DO BEST, CODING AND TESTING. THEY NEED TO SEE IF WE RE ON TRACK, WHETHER RESOURCE RE- ALLOCATION IS REQUIRED ETC. Having a single repository for all project assets and tracking the status of builds, check-in s, bugs and other work items means Visual Studio Team System can provide up to the minute status reports. A SQL Server database stores all the information about the project and SQL Server Reporting Services is used to provide top level status reports in real-time. Custom reports can be created where the reports provided lack detail or need customization. This document is for informational purposes only. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT OR LINKED CONTENT.

Break Through Your Software Development Challenges with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008

Break Through Your Software Development Challenges with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 White Paper November 2007 For the latest information, please see www.microsoft.com/vstudio This is a preliminary document