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Get Visual Studio Professional with MSDN Premium and receive free upgrade to Visual Studio 2010

Buy Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition with MSDN Premium before March 22, 2010, and you will automatically be transitioned to the new Visual Studio 2010 Premium with MSDN at no extra cost. Visual Studio 2010 Premium offers all the functionality of today’s Visual Studio Team System 2008 Developer and Database Editions, plus many more new features. With your MSDN Premium subscription, you can use Windows 7 to design, develop, test and demo your applications on as many machines and devices as you need, as long as each person on your team is a subscriber.

• Increases the predictability of success by visually constructing service-oriented solutions
• Introduce design elements that play predefined roles within an architectural pattern
• Focuses on improving the design and validation of distributed systems
• SKU # UEF-00025

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Processor Required

2.0 GHz processor

Processor Recommended

2.6 GHz processor

Hard disk

8 GB of available space

Hard disk

20 GB of available space

Memory Required

512 MB RAM

Memory Recommended

1 GB RAM

Other

32-bit OS: Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2 installed, Windows Server 2003, or Windows Vista.
64-bit OS: See the Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 page.

Client software prerequisites: Internet Explorer 6.0 with Service Pack 1 or later, Microsoft Office 2003 with Service Pack 1, or Microsoft Office 2007, MDAC 9.0, .NET Framework 2.0

• Use the Top-Down Service Designer to progressively improve your system designs and get a better view of your application architecture
• Save time by building solutions that are immediately verified for your operational environment
• Introduce design elements that play predefined roles within an architectural pattern, such as Smart Client, Entity Service, and more
• Use System Designer to compose applications into systems or reusable subsystems and validate the resulting configurations
• Visualize the logical structure of datacenters and validate applications before deployment using the Logical Datacenter Designer
• Validate application designs against a target datacenter and identify issues before deployment with the Deployment Designer
• Use the Settings and Constraints Editor to specify requirements on the hosting environment in the Application Designer
• Get superior support with a MSDN Professional subscription (for more information, see "Before you buy" section above)