Microsoft® Visual Studio® Team Suite combines the functionality from all four Visual Studio Team System role-based editions (Team Editions for Architects, Developers, Database Professionals, and Testers) to offer a fully comprehensive development environment for multi-disciplined team members.

Architect and Design Distributed Systems

Sound architectural decisions are the key to project success. Visual Studio Team Suite provides powerful new visual designers for service-oriented solution modeling. These new visual designers increase productivity and help architects and operations managers make sound architectural decisions by validating their solutions against the operational environment early in the application life cycle.

• Visually design Web services-based distributed applications
• Validate distributed systems against operational requirements
• Increase probability of successful application deployment
• Simplify management and administration

Optimize Performance and Diagnose Issues

The performance tools in Visual Studio Team Suite trace their technological roots back almost a decade to the labs of Microsoft Research. At that time, Microsoft Research was responsible for a set of performance tools that were created to help optimize products such as Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft SQL Server 2005. These efforts produced the profiling and performance technologies that are now offered as part of Visual Studio Team System.

• Improve code quality and security with static code analysis
• Specify coding best practices with check-in policies
• Test code early and often with integrated unit testing
• Measure the effectiveness of unit tests with code coverage
• Measure code performance with profiling and performance session reports
• Manage and launch performance sessions with Performance Explorer

Ensure Software Quality

Visual Studio Team Suite provides a complete set of quality tools to help team members write better code, reduce security-related issues and avoid bugs and quality issues later in the development life cycle.

• Manage the test life cycle
• Comprehensive Web testing
• Prescriptive performance testing

Take Control of Database Change

By reducing the risks involved in making database schema changes you can better control the integrity of your database throughout the development process. Visual Studio Team Suite provides the specific capabilities to help you reduce those risks, streamline changes, and take control of your database.

• Rename refactoring support for database objects
• Schema Compare to keep two schema versions synchronized
• Data Compare to keep the data in two databases synchronized
• Offline database projects for change isolation
• Extensible unit test functionality
• Data generator to define sets of repeatable test data
• New designer to create unit tests in T-SQL or managed code