Introduction to Microsoft Visual Studio 2005

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Introduction to Microsoft Visual Studio 2005

• Davin Mickelson
• Davin_at_NewHorizonsMN.com

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Whats New in VS 2005?

• We will cover
• Versions of VS 2005
• Cost
• Which version is right for you?
• Web community opinions
• Software Factories the future?

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Versions of Visual Studio 2005 (Personalized
Productivity)

• Visual Studio 2005 Express
• Visual Studio 2005 Standard
• Visual Studio 2005 Professional
• Visual SourceSafe 2005
• Visual Studio Team Suite (All three Roles)
• Visual Studio 2005 Team System
• Team Architect
• Team Developer
• Team Test
• Team Foundation

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Visual Studio 2005 Express

• Its for beginners/hobbyists
• Will be low cost perhaps free
• May be bundled with other software packages as
  part of SDK
• Example game SDK
• Great way to introduce people to programming
• Each version is language/solution specific
• C, C, J, VB, Web, SQL

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Visual Studio 2005 Standard

• Can do most types of development
• Can develop Crystal Reports only
• Can consume VS 2005 tools
• Supports all the .NET languages
• Local debugging only
• No Server Explorer

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Visual Studio Professional

• Designed for small teams/organizations
• Allows you to build extensible tools into VS 2005
  using VS SDK
• Supports SQL Server 205 development
• Fully functional version no limitations
• Local and Remote debugging
• Crystal Reports and SQL Reporting Services

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Visual SourceSafe 2005

• Works over HTTP and HTTPS - from VS 2005!
• Better integration with VS 2005
• LAN performance booster
• Improved support for regional time zones and
  languages

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Visual Studio 2005 Team System

• Designed for Enterprise Environments
• Enforces software process guidance (MSF 4, Agile,
  UP, custom)
• Built to run on Team Foundation
• Supports designs built for deployment
• Supports different teams (testers, developers,
  architects)
• Issue tracking, much more

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Visual Studio Team Architect

• Distributed System Designers (DSD)
• Application Connection Designer
• Logical Datacenter Designer
• System Designer
• Deployment Designer
• Extendable for your own DSLs!
• Validates designs
• Supports SOAs designs

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Visual Studio Team Developer

• Unit testing framework
• Bug tracking with TF
• Code Profiler performance enhancement
• WS Load Testing software embedded in VS 2005
• Works directly with Team Foundation Source Code
  Control

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Visual Studio Team Test

• Test project type contain tests
• Test Explorer
• Web performance stress testing
• Much more capabilities than ACT
• Supports HTTP and HTTPS out of the box
• Extensible to other protocols
• No GUI testing capabilities yet. Microsoft
  looking to 3rd party vendors

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Visual Studio Team Foundation

• Replacement for Visual SourceSafe at Enterprise
  Level
• Based on top of SQL Server 2005
• Work item track - items assigned to team members
  (email, MSN Messenger)
• VSS migration tools will be available
• Produces project health status reports
• Build Service
• Microsoft is including their own internal
  software development tools

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Visual Studio 2005 Costs

• MSDN subscriptions are changing
• MSDN Web URL http//msdn.microsoft.com/howtobuy/v
  s2005/compare/
• Reminder prices are retail
• MSDN Premium with Team Suite
• New 10,939/year, Renewal 4,598/year
• MSDN Premium with Team Arch, Dev or Test
• New 5,469/year, Renewal 2,299/year
• MSDN Premium with Pro 2,499/year
• MSDN Universal Upgrade Suggestion

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Which version?

• How big is your team?
• How big is your budget?
• What are your needs?
• Consider Microsofts upgrade options for MSDN
  subscriptions

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When Will VS 2005 Be Released?

• Beta 2 will be released in April
• Tech-Ed version will be released in June
• Will be released 2nd half of this year

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Developer Community Opinions

• Too expensive
• Consultants outraged at unavailability in MSDN
  Universal
• Features (testing, refactoring, etc.) should be
  available across all versions
• Some suggest considering other community-supported
  tools, or developing own

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VS 2005 - My Thoughts

• VS Express
• Great idea for beginners!
• VSTS
• Growth step for Microsoft development
• is a tough sell (cost, requirements, mgmt)
• Steep learning curve, many changes
• is still full of bugs!
• for large organizations only
• May cause companies to consider going down a
  level (to VS Professional)

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VS 2005 My Thoughts (2)

• VS 2005 Standard
• Why this instead of Professional?
• .NET SDK 2.0
• .NET is still free!
• Always consider all development tools available
• SQL 2005
• DBAs must learn .NET .NET developers must learn
  DBA
• Is everybody going to immediately upgrade there
  database servers when its released?

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Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI)

• A broad Microsoft and industry initiative uniting
  hardware, software, and service vendors around a
  new software architecture based on the System
  Definition Model (SDM)
• Supported by VS 2005, Windows Server and mgmt
  tools, known as Service Center
• VS 2005 Team Architect supports this with the
  Distributed System Designers (DSDs)

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System Definition Model (SDM)

• A part of the DSI, is a live Extensible Markup
  Language (XML) blueprint that spans the IT life
  cycle and unifies IT operational policies with
  the operational requirements of applications
• This ties development to operations

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Development Growth Patterns

• Punch cards ? Reel to Reel Tape
• Tape ? Disk
• Assembly code ? COBOL, Fortran, C
• Procedural code ? OOP
• Raw code ? Rapid Application Development (RAD)
• RAD ? Software factories? You betcha

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Current Development Patterns

• Stagnant change in the industry
• We write code from scratch
• Commerce Server 2002 - a bucket of parts
• We all write code that does basically the same
  thing
• SW development is expensive!
• Failure rate is still high
• How can the software development process grow?

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Software Factories

• Industrialize software development
• A framework
• Another level of abstraction
• Higher return of development
• Less prone for errors
• Less work!
• Might be scary and painful at first

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Other Industries Growth Patterns

• Automotive, financial, etc.
• Assembly lines for building cars
• Ironically, these industries are automated by
  software

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Domain Specific Language (DSL)

• - Either textual or graphical
• - Specifically for solution
• - Models designed with software tools
• - Write specifications of software
• - Capture developer intent in computational forms

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Model Driven Development (MDD)

• Different than Model Driven Architecture (MDA)
• - Programming with Models
• - Use DSL to gather software reqs
• - Use compilers and code generation to create
  solution
• Team Architect is extensible so you can develop
  your own DSL

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Software Factories, Examples

• BizTalk 2004
• Programming through boxes and Property windows
• Commerce Server 2006? (Jupiter initiative)
• Will probably be based on software factory
• All E-Commerce sites are made up of roughly the
  same parts
• Visual Studio 2005 Team Architect

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Recommended Books

• Software Factories
• Publisher Wiley Technology Publishing
• ISBN 0-471-20284-3
• Code Generation in Microsoft .NET
• Publisher Apress
• ISBN 1-59059-137-2

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Thanks for Coming!

• Drive safe