1. Designing solutions using Visual Studio 2005’s architecture and design tools

2. Visual Studio 2005 An architect has unique needs that have never quite been fulfilled by the Visual Studio development environment, before. Microsoft has finally begun to address these requirements with Visual Studio 2005! In this presentation, I will introduce you to some of these new features and demonstrate how I use them to design enterprise solutions. Visual Studio Team Architect EditionLogical Data Center DiagramDistributed System DiagramApplication Deployment Diagram

4. Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI)  Knowledge  Deployed Systems  Operating Environment  Architect’s Intent  Enterprise Policies  Models  Capture Knowledge  Communicate Knowledge  Life Cycle

5. System Definition Model (SDM)  Design  Reusable models  Incorporate best practices  Manage environmental constraints  Deployment  Automatic configuration  Dynamically adapt to different targets  Operations  Configuration management  Upgrades  Process automation

9. Questions? http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/dsi/ http://www.msdn.com/architecture/