The news out of Microsoft today includes a taste of what's cooking with Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0, plus a look at Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) 2010 (previously code named Rosario). Here's what senior vice president of the Developer Division, S. "Soma" Somasegar says about these upcoming releases, “With Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0, we are focused on the core pillars of developer experience, support for the latest platforms spanning client, server, services and devices, targeted experiences for specific application types, and core architecture improvements. These pillars are designed specifically to meet the needs of developers, the teams that drive the application life cycle from idea to delivery, and the customers that demand the highest quality applications across multiple platforms. You can expect to hear a lot more about Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 in the coming months.” An area of focus for Visual Studio 2010 is what Microsoft calls "democratizing application lifecycle management (ALM)." An efficient and integrated IT team could be a more democratic team,certainly the playing field would be leveled by better modeling tools, a more efficient test cycle, and better collaboration among the various players on IT teams--from development to systems administration. Here are a few plans for improving ALM that Microsoft has in the works:
- Ensuring architectural consistency
- Exploring existing code assets for easy re-use
- Smoothing build handoffs, check-ins, and higher quality builds
- Eliminating “no repro” bugs
- Quickening setup and deployment of tests and ensuring that all code changes are properly tested
- Focused test planning and progress tracking
“The application life cycle is an integral part of today’s business. Regardless of core competencies, all organizations are driven by software that is created and customized to deliver a competitive advantage,” said Theresa Lanowitz, founder of voke, inc. “Enterprises that invest in an ALM solution can decrease their total cost of ownership of applications in their IT portfolio, and bring about a global approach that is an integrated and expansive system consisting of people, processes and technology. This global approach to ALM facilitates collaboration and takes the risk out of software development to produce predictable and reliable results for an optimized business outcome. Solutions such as VSTS are poised to take advantage of market opportunity by offering an application life-cycle platform to help enterprises realize this ROI benefit.” In addition, Microsoft announced that VSTS 2010 will provide a unified VSTS Development and Database product. Current software assurance (SA) customers who own Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition or Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition will receive all the following products starting Oct. 1, 2008, for free:Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development EditionVisual Studio Team System 2008 Database EditionVisual Studio 2005 Team System for Software DevelopersVisual Studio 2005 Team System for Database ProfessionalsThe products will be available to SA customers through their normal Microsoft Developer Network channel. More information can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/sa.More information about Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 is available at http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9537302.
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