A Visual Tour of the Team Editions: Developer
There are four "editions" of Team System, which I talked about in
Comparing Visual Studio Team System Editions.
It can be a little confusing to distinguish exactly what is different
between the Team Editions-- much less the difference over "plain old"
Visual Studio 2005 Professional! So here's a visual tour of what
Team Edition for Software Developers offers you.
First, the thrilling about dialog:
I've scrolled the installed products down a bit so you can see the unique bits for this install. Note that I have
Team Explorer installed, which
isn't a part of this install; it's an IDE plug-in you install from the
Team Foundation Server CD.
The Visual Studio 2005 setup process will look awfully familiar, but you have one completely new node in the install options:
Team System Developer Tools.
Post install, you'll notice a new
"Run Code Analysis" item on your Build menu:
This lets you run an ad-hoc code analysis. You can also turn on code analysis as a part of your build process
in the project properties, on the new Code Analysis tab:
There's also a new
top-level Test menu:
And
on the Tools menu, a new Performance Tools menu item:
If you want the "Visio and UML Modelling" feature promised in the feature matrix,
you'll need to install "Microsoft Office Visio for Enterprise Architects", which is in the \Visio folder of the product DVD.
Once you complete the install and restart the IDE, you'll get yet another new menu item--
Project, Visio UML:
I'll be delving deeper into each of these features in later posts, but
that's a general idea of what you can expect when upgrading to the
Developer Team Edition.
Oh, and by the way, all of the Team Editions install just fine directly on top of Visual Studio 2005 Professional. No need to uninstall if you are upgrading.