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Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect provides developers
with comprehensive tools for designing and building distributed applications for
Microsoft Windows®, the Web, and mobile devices. Visual Studio .NET
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Enterprise Architect (VSEA) builds on the power of Visual Studio .NET 2003
Enterprise Developer by including additional capabilities for designing,
specifying, and communicating application architecture, development best
practices, and application functionality
Developers using Visual Studio .NET
Enterprise Architect will benefit from the ability to:
Visually model applications, databases,
and business processes.
Clearly define application functionality and architecture for XML Web services
and applications, and visually orchestrate business processes.
Create sound architectural frameworks and
best practices guidelines.
Increase application development efficiency through starting application
frameworks, sharing best practices guidelines, and simplifying development and
management of complex applications.
Build on a scalable and dependable
platform for distributed applications.
Create secure, reliable, and high performance applications using the Visual
Studio .NET 2003 integrated development environment (IDE) and the Windows
Server 2003 programming model. Choose from a broad range of integrated
third-party tools.
Visually Model Applications, Databases, and
Business Processes
Use a complete set of Microsoft Visio®—based
modeling capabilities to create and communicate application architecture,
business requirements, database design, and business processes. Architects using
Microsoft Visual C++® .NET, Microsoft Visual Basic® .NET, or Microsoft Visual
C#® .NET can use Unified Modeling Language (UML) models to specify application
architecture and functionality, reduce development time by directly generating
classes, functions, and methods, and document existing application code by
reverse-engineering projects. Visual Studio .NET 2003 Enterprise Architect
enables developers to create architectural designs and models that they can
share with the rest of their team.
Visual Studio .NET 2003 Enterprise Architect
provides end-to-end support for database modeling, including conceptual,
logical, and physical views. Business analysts can easily enter business rules
using the Fact Editor, which in turn generates an underlying database model that
can be refined by a database analyst. Roundtrip engineering guarantees that
changes made at any of the views will be reflected throughout, improving
communication across the development team.
Business processes can be defined and
orchestrated using a full-featured version of Microsoft BizTalk® server designed
for developers. This makes it easier to compose applications from existing
functionality—whether that functionality is internal or external to an
organization.
Create Sound Architectural Frameworks and Best
Practices Guidelines
Enterprise Templates and the Template
Description Language can help developers meet the challenges of rapidly
proliferating innovations and technologies, and increase collaboration across
development teams. Architects can use Enterprise Template projects to create
application starting points by specifying an initial application structure
(including any reusable or standard components and technologies), as well as
design documents and models.
Architects using Template Description Language
can specify the constraints for component usage throughout the application, such
as by setting property values and ranges so that developers can easily make the
right implementation choices. Architects can also create custom Help topics in
HTML and integrate them into the Visual Studio .NET dynamic help system, giving
developers access to the resources they need.
Sophisticated reference applications included
in Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect illustrate some recommended
approaches to solving common problems. These reference applications show the use
of .NET-connected technology to create sample distributed applications complete
with reference architectures, application, data and business models as well as
the underlying code.
Build on a Scalable and Dependable Platform
for Distributed Applications
The Microsoft .NET Framework, along with
Windows Server 2003, is designed to simplify application development in the
highly distributed environment of the Internet and enterprise computing. This is
achieved through integration of:
- Public Internet standards such as XML, SOAP,
UDDI, and WML.
- Web services enhancements such as
message-based security (WS-Security).
- A highly scalable, loosely coupled
architecture.
- Application development in the language of
your choice.
- Easy-to-use automatic transactions,
automatic memory management, and easy deployment.
- Advanced security designed from the ground
up to ensure that data and applications are protected through a fine-grained,
evidence-based security model.
- Rich operating system services such as
transaction processing monitors and message queuing.
Visual Studio .NET, the industry benchmark for
developer productivity, leverages the power of the .NET Framework. The ultimate
developer cockpit, it includes visual designers for Windows, the Web, data, and
server components to accomplish tasks more efficiently than ever before. Visual
Studio .NET 2003 enables seamless creation and usage of XML Web services for
building the next-generation Internet.
Visual Studio .NET 2003 provides an open and
extensible architecture that enables third-party vendors to create languages,
tools, and components that seamlessly integrate into the environment, providing
developers with a broad range of choices for meeting development requirements.
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