Visual Studio is a family of products designed to help developers create software applications.
Visual Studio helps developers create dynamic and robust software applications with greater
accuracy , and in a shorter amount of time. Different Versions of Visual Studio products:
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Visual Studio 2008 Professional – for individual developer
Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite - for a team of developers
Visual Studio Team Foundation Server – for a team of developers
MSDN provides documentation, technical support, and up-to-date software for developers
creating software with Microsoft products.
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition provides a comprehensive development environment
to build high-performance, multi-tier applications. It is considered a highly productive environment for
building a wide variety of Windows, Web, mobile, and Office-based solutions.
MSDN subscriptions include invaluable development resources for developers and architects
using Visual Studio Professional. With MSDN, you get priority access to new versions of
Microsoft products, including developer tools, Microsoft operating systems, server software,
productivity applications, exclusive access to pre-release products, technical support, upgrades
to new versions of Visual Studio and more – for example:
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Both MSDN Premium and MSDN Professional include development and test licenses for
Windows Server products, Windows Vista, Windows XP and SQL Server products.
MSDN Premium Subscription also includes Office 2007 Ultimate, Expression Web 2 and
Expression Blend 2 (with support for Silverlight™ 2 development) and a range of
Microsoft server and Dynamics products.
MSDN Professional includes 2 technical support incidents while MSDN Premium
includes 4 technical support incidents. In addition, to unlimited managed newsgroup
support for MSDN subscribers.
NOTE: Software included in MSDN Subscriptions is provided with rights to design, develop, test
and demonstrate your software applications
VISUAL STUDIO TEAM SYSTEM
Microsoft ® Visual Studio® Team System is an integrated Application Life-Cycle Management (ALM) solution
comprising tools, processes, and guidance to help everyone on the team improve their skills and work more
effectively together. For an overview, see Visual Studio Team System Product Information. More details
about the products that comprise Visual Studio Team System can be found in the following links:
Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite
Visual Studio 2008 Team Edition for Database Professionals
Visual Studio 2008 Team Edition for Software Architects
Visual Studio 2008 Team Edition for Software Developers
Visual Studio 2008 Team Edition for Software Testers
Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server
1. You get all the following software with rights to design, develop, test and demonstrate your software
applications:
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Microsoft Visual Studio Professional
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Microsoft Expression Web, Expression Blend
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Microsoft SQL Server
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Application Platform Servers,Business Productivity Servers,IT Operations Servers
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Windows Vista
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Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003 R2, Compute Cluster
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Office Ultimate/Enterprise/Professional Plus/Professional 2007 (One copy can be used on one device
for business purpose)
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Office Project Professional, Office Project Server, Office Project Portfolio Server
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Dynamics AX, GP, NAV, SL, Microsoft Forecaster & Microsoft FRx, Dynamics CRM, Point of Sale,
Microsoft Small Business Accounting & Financials
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Virtual PC, Virtual Server
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.NET Framework, .NET Compact Framework, .NET Micro Framework
2. MSDN Library
3. Four Technical support incidents
4. Managed Newsgroup support
NOTE: Software included in MSDN Subscriptions is provided with rights to design, develop, test and demonstrate
your software applications