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Team Edition for Software Architects includes the new Application Designer, a visual design surface that helps software architects design, configure, implement, and deploy service-oriented applications. View larger.

The Application Designer allows users to create application diagrams that can be implemented into code at any time. View larger.

The Deployment Designer can be used to validate an application for deployment in a particular datacenter. View larger.

Team Edition for Software Architects is the first deliverable of the Dynamic Systems Initiative, aimed at improving the design and validation of distributed systems, and enabling organizations to lower the risk of deployment of enterprise-class distributed systems. Team Edition for Software Architects gives architects, operations managers, and developers the ability to increase the predictability of success by visually constructing service-oriented solutions that can be validated against their operational environments prior to deployment.

With Team Edition for Software Architects, you can keep application design documents synchronized with code at all times, design and configure .NET Web services visually, create and manage a living blueprint of an entire distributed system using the first SDM-compatible tool, communicate information using a common modeling language, and validate design prior to implemenatation to ensure that your distributed application will deploy successfully.

Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Architects integrates tightly with the Visual Studio Team System, allowing architects to communicate efficiently with all members of the software development lifecycle. Creating, viewing, or assigning work items, and sharing artifacts easily among all members of the team is easily accomplished. The Distributed System Designers treat models as first-class citizens in the development lifecycle and provide a continuously synched view of the code. This "trip-less" round-tripping ensures that the model remains up-to-date with the code at all times.

Team Edition for Software Architects offers a rich, extensible infrastructure for customers and third-parties to build upon and lets you leverage integrated partner solutions to extend the Distributed System Designers to provide support for management and deployment of distributed applications. Advanced customization features allow you to model new application types or application hosts using the System Definition Model (SDM) SDK, or extend existing SDM models.

New Distributed System Designers integrate seamlessly with the Visual Studio 2005 IDE, enabling architects to design, implement, and validate distributed applications. The Logical Datacenter Designer can be used to create a logical view of your datacenter, including logical servers, endpoints, communication boundaries and pathways. With Team Edition for Software Architects, you can import IIS configuration information from a physical IIS server. A scriptable deployment report captures all information required for deployment, and the rich extensibility mechanism enables users to create new resources, model new application and server types, and specify custom settings and constraints.

MSDN Premium Subscriptions
Team Edition for Software Architects includes an MSDN Premium Subscription. An MSDN Premium Subscription provides continuous, priority access to the technologies you need to support Team Edition for Software Architects and build a broad range of applications and Web services, including the latest versions of Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Windows XP Professional Edition, Windows XP Home Edition, and future Windows releases. (Usage rights are limited to development and testing only.)

With the subscription, your technical support includes unlimited usage of MSDN Managed Newsgroups for online support with a guaranteed response time of two business days, phone-based support incidents, and free access to MSDN Online Concierge for nontechnical questions regarding navigation of the MSDN site, Knowledge Base article searches, and MSDN Subscriber Downloads. Also, continuously updated technical content is available through the MSDN Library, which offers comprehensive programming information, code samples, sample applications, technical documentation and articles, and the Microsoft Developer Knowledge Base.

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• Any Visual Studio Team edition with MSDN Premium Subscription
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