Updated: July 9, 2020 (September 17, 2007)

Visual Studio Editions for Team System

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Specialized editions of the Visual Studio 2005 IDE will support group development in conjunction with Team Foundation Server. Shown here are the major development tasks that each edition supports. Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite includes the features of all editions. Visual Studio Standard and Express Editions do not include any of the team development features shown here.

Development Role	Feature	Team Edition for Software Architects	Team Edition for Software Developers	Team Edition for Software Testers	Team Edition for Database Professionals
Architect	Application Modeling	YES
	Deployment Modeling	YES
	Class Modeling	YES	YES
Developer	Source-Code Analysis		YES
Developer	Source-Code Profiling		YES
Tester	Load Testing

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