Development Edition

Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition provides advanced development tools that enable teams to build reliable, mission critical services and applications.

In This Section

  • What's New in Development Edition
    Contains a list of new features that are provided in this version of Development Edition.

  • Writing Quality Code
    Provides links to topics that discuss a new class of analysis tools to make it easier for developers to detect and correct code defects.

  • Analyzing Application Performance using Profiling Tools
    Provides links to topics that discuss performance tools that help developers measure, evaluate, and target performance-related issues in their code.

  • Working with Unit Tests
    Provides links to topics that discuss a set of test tools that are integrated into the Visual Studio environment to author unit tests, gather code coverage data, and manage tests and related work items all from within Visual Studio.

  • Application Verifier
    Provides links to topics that discuss Application Verifier which assists developers in finding subtle programming errors that can be extremely difficult to identify with ordinary application testing, including issues such as errors caused by heap corruption, incorrect handle and critical section usage, and security vulnerabilities.

  • Team Foundation
    Provides links to topics that discuss an extensible team collaboration server that enables all members of the extended IT team to manage and track the progress and health of projects.

  • Architecture Edition
    Provides links to topics that discuss visual designers that enable architects, operations managers, and developers to design service-oriented solutions that can be validated against their operational environments.

  • Test Edition
    Provides links to topics that discuss advanced load testing tools that enable teams to verify the performance of applications before deployment.

See Also

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What's New in Visual Studio 2008