Tuesday, October 27, 2009 4:52 AM
willys
Trying to figure out the difference between Visual Studio Team System 2008 and Visual Studio 2010
 | Looking at the major packages, we notice that Visual Studio Team Suite 2008 has the Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate counterpart, with both being the powerhouse of the specific edition.
Visual Studio Architect, Developer, Tester and Database Edition 2008 ‘kind of’ equate to the Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 edition, with many positive changes such as Unit Testing moving down to the professional edition in 2010.
There is no 1:1 relationship and we need to carefully evaluate the edition and the features needed.
Look at http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/msdn/default.mspx#roadmap for some exciting upgrade deals when moving from 2008 to 2010:
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About willys
Willy started his IT career in the early 1980’s during his Electrical Engineering studies, focusing on the BTOS/CTOS operating systems until he moved over primarily to Microsoft technologies in the early 90’s. Since then his passion has been to investigate, research and evangelize technology, best practices and striving for simplicity and maintainability in software engineering. Apart from writing books such as ".NET Enterprise Solutions ... Best Practices” , “.NET Enterprise Solutions … Interoperability for the Connoisseur” and “Software Engineers on their way to Pluto”, his varied and extreme interests include scuba diving, cycling, science fiction, Star Wars, astronomy and most importantly his family
