Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management

Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management is a collection of integrated software development tools developed by Microsoft. These tools include IDEs, source control, work items, collaboration, metrics, and reporting tools.

1 Platform
2 Training and Education Resources
3 Visual Studio 2010 Rebranding
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

Platform

Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management consists of four products:^[1]

Visual Studio, which provides an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for development and client side interfaces for the other products.
Visual Studio Test Professional, which provides an IDE for software testers to create and execute tests.
Team Foundation Server, which provides Source Code collaboration and data storage.
Visual Studio Lab Management, which provides a way for software testers to create and manage virtual environments.

Training and Education Resources

Microsoft has many Virtual Labs for both the 2010^[2] and 2012^[3] versions of the products.

Visual Studio 2010 Rebranding

In Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008 the brand was known as Microsoft Visual Studio Team System (VSTS); however, in October 2009, as part of the Visual Studio 2010 release, the Team System brand was renamed to Microsoft Visual Studio ALM.^[4]

References

^ Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management. Msdn.microsoft.com. Retrieved on 2013-08-29.
^ Microsoft Visual Studio. Msdn.microsoft.com. Retrieved on 2013-08-29.
^ Microsoft Visual Studio. Msdn.microsoft.com. Retrieved on 2013-08-29.
^ Octavie van Haaften (November 25, 2009). "Visual Studio 2010 Team System session". Retrieved 2011-12-08.

External links

Microsoft Visual Studio ALM home page

Microsoft development tools

Development
environments

Visual Studio	Application Lifecycle Management Express Online Tools for Applications Tools for Office

Others	Windows SDK Blend Expression Web Robotics Developer Studio SharePoint Designer FrontPage Small Basic WebMatrix

Languages and
compilers

Major APIs and
frameworks

Database tools
and languages

SQL Server	Express Compact Management Studio Business Intelligence Development Studio MSDE

SQL services	Analysis Reporting Integration Notification

Other	Visual FoxPro Microsoft Access Jet Engine Extensible Storage Engine

Source control

Deployment

Driver development

Performance Analysis

CLR Profiler

Categories

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Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management