If you're trying to use the Distributed System Designers in the December CTP, I must highly recommend you take a look at the walkthroughs. They can be found in Help under Visual Studio Team System->Team Architect->Distributed System Designers->Getting...

Here’s a good Distributed System Designer overview article in the latest copy of the .NET Developers Journal by Alex Torone: Distributed System Design Suite Visual Studio Team Architect is a suite of graphical design tools, targeted at architects and...

Chat with Team Architect members of Visual Studio Team System. We'll be answering questions and discussing our suite of designers for designing service oriented systems as well as logical datacenters, deployment, and extensibility. Link to chat: http...

There's a great review that Lawrence Wilkes has published on our designers on the CBDI Forum that's definitely worth a look: http://www.cbdiforum.com/bronze/journal/Supporting_SOA_Service_Lifec1.php Reponses to some of the issues Lawrence raised about...

Okay, I just talked to Thom Robbins who's arranging our participation in the event and I now have a rough idea of things are going to work out. Tutorial The Distributed System Designers (and modeling tools) are going to kick off the tutorial on the 16th...

A built-in file-sytem based application server is one of the great features in VS 2005. It gives you the option of creating a new Web application in any folder in your file-system without requiring Internet Information Services (IIS) or Front Page Server...

Guess what! We've just signed up to talk about our Distributed System Designers at the Web Services Edge Conference in Boston. ( http://sys-con.com/edge2005east/ ) Participation details still have to be ironed out but be sure to keep an eye out for us...

Wow! I’m coming back from a meeting where I saw a demo of the Visual Studio Office (code-named Trinity) projects integration with the Application Designer and I was impressed. The demo was given by some peers of mine (Ross and Liangxiao) and they did...

Cheers ps. thanks for the pic Robin...

Okay, I think it’s time we show you guys a preview what our designers will look like in Beta 2. We’ve had Jesse, our User Experience guru, revamp them completely and he’s done a great job prettying them up considerably from Beta 1. Jesse and Bill Gibson...

It has been a several months since we shipped Visual Studio 2005 Beta1 with the Distributed System Designers. A lot of customers have started looking into the Distributed System Designers since then. We have been getting some feedback on features that...

A lot of the customers I talked to about our designers have been surprised that our designers have been included as a part of the Beta 1 release. So, we sat back and throught about why this might be the case... While I can imagine all our Beta users love...

Introduction My name is Ali Pasha , and I’m a Program Manager in the Visual Studio Enterprise Tools group at Microsoft where I work on Microsoft’s Web service modeling features that are a part of a larger initiative for solving the difficulties faced...