A Visual Tour of the Team Editions: Architect
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 Architects offers you.
First, the thrilling about dialog:
The only new item in the Visual Studio 2005 setup process is the
Enterprise Tools checkbox:
Architect edition is all about the diagrams. You can add a new diagram to a solution via the
File, Add, New Distributed System Diagram menu:
The same
New Distributed System Diagram menu item is available via the right-click menu in the solution, and also on the
Project menu:
The
File, New Project menu also sports a new Distributed System Solution project type:
So what exactly are these diagrams? Here's a visual sample of each one.
Logical Datacenter Diagram:
System Diagram:
Application Diagram:
Note that the only solution diagram can be converted into Visual Studio project files automatically. The other two diagrams can be converted into deployment summary diagrams and HTML.