Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite provides multidisciplined 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 lifecycle.
Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite provides team members with the tools they need to overcome todays software challenges and drive software quality, project visibility, and team collaboration. By giving all team members access to the full functionality of Visual Studio Team System, Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite supports multi-disciplinary team members making contributions throughout the architecture, design, coding, database development, and testing phases.
Take control of database changes - Improve control over changes to your databases with the version and refactoring support of Database Edition, now integrated with Team Suite.
Build better-quality applications - Increase application quality using integrated database unit tests, moremeaningful test data generation, and code correctness tools.
Streamline the development process - Manage your development -- delivering the right solutions on time and on budget -- using integrated process management and collaboration tools.
Main Features
Continuous Integration - Visual Studio Team System comes out of the box with easy-to-use CI features integrated into the system, including Multithread - Build, Queue Management, Drop Management
Improved reliability, performance, scalability, and security - Work item throughput has doubled. Large organizations can support more work item tracking users on their existing servers. Visual Studio Team Foundation Server is much more reliable and less likely to cause delays or other problems. It is now possible to require a secure connection to Team Build.
New Version Control features - New functionalities including Folder Diff, Annotate, Destroy, Get Latest on Checkout
Control Load Modeling - Create load test that more accurately model real-world usage of an application or Web site
Code Metrics - Monitor and find maintainability issues and error-prone code in your code base
Code analysis improvement - 20+ new rules, code analysis policy improvements, new T-SQL code analysis
Find performance bottlenecks - Hot Path, report noise reduction, compare baseline reports, line-level sampling, WPF support, 64-bit support
Design application systems using a top-down approach - Design application systems by starting with System Designer
Web Access - A Web interface for Team Foundation Server that allows managing work items, shared documents, reports and source control
Migration is made easy - Migration tools are integrated to move from Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server to Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server and to facilitate migration from other source control systems
System Requirements
Hard Disk 8 GB (20 GB Recommended).
Memory 512 MB (1 GB Recommended).
Processor 2.0-GHz CPU (2.6-GHz CPU Recommended).
Platform Windows Server 2003 / XP Professional / Vista.
