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Contest: Win Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite with MSDN Premium Subscription
1/6/2006 2:30:03 PM

Microsoft has generously provided me, Patrick Santry owner of WWWCoder.com (and also other MVPs) licenses to give away for Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite with MSDN Premium Subscription. Here's information on how you can one of these giveaways.

Microsoft has generously provided me, Patrick Santry owner of WWWCoder.com (and also other MVPs) the opportunity to give away Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite with an MSDN Premium Subscription. Here's information on how you can get one of these giveaways.

So here's the deal. Tell me in about 100 words why you need one of these licenses. Beg, plead, whine, cry, just justify why you want this license. You must need and be able to use the software in order to receive it. You can make comments up until Feb. 5, at which time no more comments will be considered. Please use the comments form below to make your comments.

Comments will then be judged and the recipient determined. Oh yeah, you have to register first so I know who you are, no anonymous comments will be considered. Don't worry, your email won't be displayed in your comment (changed the code), just your username. The selected comment will receive a redemption code that entitles you to a full license of Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite with an MSDN Premium Subscription which can be redeemed.

We're talking about a lot of software here. This is your opportunity to get your own copy of some great development tools.

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Left on 1/3/2007 1:26:50 AM by Anonymous
Comments: As i am a Microsoft Certified Minesweeper Proffessional and Solitare Expert i will be definitely euphoric to become a REAL developer :), actually i am developing with eVC 3.0 and 4.0 and it would mean a tremendous boost in efficiency to get a VS licence for mobile development!
So have a heart of corn and do not leave me alone with eVC 4.0 any longer!

Left on 9/2/2006 3:59:59 AM by Anonymous
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Left on 6/9/2006 12:51:15 AM by Shrenik Jhaveri
Comments: Excellent, I am always happy to get someting free, and Team suite and subscription will give me boost to acquire more knowledge. That's also free...!Coooolest thing right...!

Left on 2/21/2006 2:13:20 PM by Anonymous
Comments: Comments from the following blog: Patrick Santry's (aka wwwCoder) Blog, located at: http://blogs.wwwcoder.com/psantry/archive/2006/02/21/16697.aspx
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Left on 2/21/2006 7:37:34 AM by Rob Latour
Comments: please
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Left on 2/21/2006 7:37:06 AM by Rob Latour
Comments: You said I could beg, when my kids want something they always ask more that once! So please, please, please!
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Left on 2/21/2006 7:26:09 AM by Rob Latour
Comments: Wow, what a great opportunity! If you live on a really tight budget then you already know why a free copy of VS would be even better than terrific. Currently VS 2005 Standard is helping me out as I try to pick up some spare change writing and selling shareware on the side. Its also something I love to do and a hobby that helps me stay at home with my wife and kids at night. To date, however I’m working for about a penny an hour ?. This upgrade would really be great; for one thing I would be able to look at changing my app into a service and that would be very helpful. Thank you Patrick for running this contest, hope I can be one of the lucky few! Best Regards, Rob
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Left on 2/7/2006 3:54:08 AM by Anonymous
Comments: Comments from the following blog: philweber.net, located at: http://www.philweber.com/2006/01/05.htm#000149
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Left on 2/5/2006 10:21:56 AM by Anonymous
Comments: VSTS will enhance my productivity as a prive sub-contracted work. My career is based on effective communication from the assignment of my tasks, to debugging, ntesting, and completion. VSTS along with Team Foundation Server enables me to communicate with coleagues without excel file or email tag. My work is present there and ready. My current standard edition can not effectivly communicate with the rest of the team, so i am left out of the loop and work twice as hard to keep up. This this time saving along makes it an effective choice. Along with that comes the premier subscribtion which will allow me to quickly and effectivly stay on top of my team, my field, my carrer. Sorry if it's more than 100 words. I have to say, this is a wonderful thing you have presented here and should thank MCSFT and yourself for such an oppertunity.
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Left on 2/5/2006 9:29:03 AM by Erik Wouda
Comments: I am a starting freelance .NET specialist. If you send me this free license I will have the opportunity to become a successful Microsoft professional who is in touch with the latest cutting edge Microsoft development tools and I will be able to renew my subscriptions every year for the rest of my career. If you don’t send me a free license, I will probably end up a PHP web developer. The choice is up to you......

Left on 2/5/2006 3:36:09 AM by Anonymous
Comments: Hi, just another top 10 contributer to the ASP.NET forums that wishes to get a chance on this opportunity. A lot of people seem to like my answers on the forums so with an MSDN subscription I could become become better and help others better.
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Left on 2/4/2006 5:07:52 PM by Anja de Loos
Comments: What about the good old fashioned Ladies first? Or do I need to mention things like cute and lovely?
Didn't think so...
and PS... Ive always been a sucker for suites...

Left on 2/4/2006 2:19:01 PM by Jörgen Verhart
Comments: Please, please, please, please, please send me Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite. Not only is Visual Studio the best development tool out there, but it also is the only way for me to keep playing with all the new and exciting technologies that Microsoft is bringing out in the rest of this year: Windows Workflow, Domain Specific Languages, Atlas, Communication Foundation, SharePoint 2006, Office 12, Windows Vista, Biztalk 2006 and more. Please help me keep my Microsoft technology knowledge up to date so I can keep convincing people that Microsoft has the best products available.

Left on 2/2/2006 5:24:23 PM by Anonymous
Comments: My company collapsed on 9/11 and except for some short-term work I've used up all my finances. I've decided to get out of the consulting business and switch to being an ISV with 2 very solid projects on the table. With no money I've had to rely on Express which isn't cutting it. I could use this software to turn things around dramatically. PS My partner is also named Santry. Thanks for your consideration.

Left on 2/1/2006 9:49:37 PM by Venkatarama Uppugunduri
Comments: I started working on .NET since it was given free in 2000 through MSDN magazine subscription. I am addicted to it. To my luck, I joined a .NET project, which used beta versions until official .NET was released in 2002. Then onwards I never worked on any other products, platforms other than .NET. To my luck I always got my MSDN Subscription through my employers. But recently I started developing something on my own and I can not afford to have ordinary MSDN subscription with my financial position. I make decent money but that would not be sufficient and I have to forgo some of the stuff for sometime if I buy one myself. In order to support my research and development using .NET I need a full subscription like premier. I can not use my employers after office hours. So if you could consider me as a prominent receiver of free VSTS/MSDN Premier Subscription that would be really great, and I swear that I would be thankful to you for this until I take my last breath. After that I don't know what happens. :-). Thank you --Rama.NET--
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Left on 2/1/2006 2:57:52 AM by Kiritharishon Kamalanathan
Comments: I'm a freelance programmer. I've been working from home for last 3 years. Normally i used Beta version of the .NET products to develop projects (2002 & 2003). Currently I'm using VS 2005 Express editions to develop my projects. My main problem is funding. I'm not in a position to buy VS.NET 2005 products. I'm planning to setup a small IT compamy with 2-3 developers in near future. If you consider me, it will be very greatfull to my carrer and future. Thank you.
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Left on 1/31/2006 8:52:54 PM by Anonymous
Comments: You might have gone throuhg my blog. My friends call me as a .NET Addict. My collegues call me as official .NET Debugging machine. :-). Eventhough I make decent money, I can not afford to have my own MSDN subscription, and so forget about VSTS. I got a copy of MSDN through my employer, but that would not be sufficient for me to do something beyond office hours. If I could get VSTS for free, then I would definately tell you something which I am developing at my personal time, (I am not going to disclose this one until I complete it), would be free to the .NET Communities.
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Left on 1/31/2006 3:09:42 PM by Michael Murr
Comments: I prefer MS products over other products, I always have. The problem is funding. Everyone has the same woes about funding especially the government industries. We are only allowed a certain budget for each physical year and needless to say, when I requested funds for SQL server 2005 and VSTS I was declined due to the pricing constraints of buying a new server. Neverless, I am determined and still trying to aquire the funds for a license with MSDN and to purchase VSTS and may have to do so out of my own pocket just to use the best software so far I have seen on the market. The government has agreed if I buy the software I can use it, and I feel it is a great importance for us to be current. I can beg, I can plead, I can get on my knees, and I can tell you that you would be the nicest and kindest person alive, but I don't want to lie to you, I don't even know you personally, but if you did give me these wonderful things, I can assure you, I would think that of you and the world. Please consider me, I am praying for this and crossing my fingers, but I won't hold my breath just in case!
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Left on 1/31/2006 1:14:47 PM by Ben Abshire
Comments: I am half owner in a new startup consulting company. Because of our beliefs in not borrowing money, growing our business quickly is not possible. Being given an MSDN subscription and Team Suite would greatly enhance our abilities to grow our business. Our goal is to do this full time. We have just gotten a new contract with a big company but we are using the Express editions of VS2005. We are BEGGING and PLEADING to be given this free give away. You could help launch a great new consulting firm and to help two guys realize their dream of running a successful business full time!
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Left on 1/31/2006 10:54:34 AM by Dong Xie
Comments: I'm working in a top university research centre. Here people will laugh at you when you want money to buy powerful dev tools. All they will say is "why not use JAVA/Perl/MySQL etc?". Fortunately we a small team managed to develop a whole solution for the centre's research project by using pure MS products. We started from classic ASP to using .NET 2002 then 2003. At that time we can still afford the VS.net pro even MSDN Universe through Educational price offer. When 2005 is out, everything is changed. The price listed for us is only half of the RRP?! Since we are a very cute team, everybody need to wear many hats. Only VSTS can provide all the features we need as indivduals. We have long ago planned to upgrade and further develop our MS solution when 2005 is out. Maybe even get it published in research journals. People won't understand just how difficult to get a paper published if you mention your solution is on top of MS products. So that the new price is really suprised me a lot. Don't know if MS no longer interested in academe. Now I have a feeling that people like us should get double paid by MS, since why should we bother to do things differently with others. When everybody is happy with Penguin, why pay MS? Yes, one more thing to share with people, you may not believe it: saying your solution is using Oracle as database will increase your chance to be published, if you dare to say SQL Server, the chance is going down, down deep. Finger crossed that our solution can still go on with MS products.
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Left on 1/31/2006 10:44:51 AM by Anonymous
Comments: I have loved Visual Basic from the start many years ago when version 4 just came out and I decided to buy the studio suite to see what I could do with it. After buying that version I have tried for many years now, to keep up with buying all the versions that are out but have had to fall back on jobs from employers many times now to allow me to work in the latest versions due to cost, and this often does not get me the position due to lack of experience. I was always taught to keep skills sharp you need to keep your tools and learning current and this is very difficult sometimes when it comes to money. I have spent thousands on my education, but each year or every other year it seems a new version comes out and I am again out of date. I'm not saying I deserve the software more than any one person here or firm, I can see they all do, I just hope many of them can relate to what I am saying. I love what I do, solving problems, learning new things, and helping people out, and sometimes what I do is not about money, but more about the challenge. In my opinion, everyone has a valid reason to want the software, but we can not all be winners. If I don't get anything out of this, then fine, but I just want everyone to know, I understand them, their needs, and I want to thank you for this oppertunity for sharing.
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Left on 1/31/2006 9:06:08 AM by Anonymous
Comments: Comments from the following blog: Patrick Santry's (aka wwwCoder) Blog, located at: http://blogs.wwwcoder.com/psantry/archive/2006/01/31/15608.aspx
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Left on 1/31/2006 8:42:54 AM by Anonymous
Comments: I have loved Visual Basic from the start many years ago when version 4 just came out and I decided to buy the studio suite to see what I could do with it. After buying that version I have tried for many years now, to keep up with buying all the versions that are out but have had to fall back on jobs from employers many times now to allow me to work in the latest versions due to cost, and this often does not get me the position due to lack of experience. I was always taught to keep skills sharp you need to keep your tools and learning current and this is very difficult sometimes when it comes to money. I have spent thousands on my education, but each year or every other year it seems a new version comes out and I am again out of date. I'm not saying I deserve the software more than any one person here or firm, I can see they all do, I just hope many of them can relate to what I am saying. I love what I do, solving problems, learning new things, and helping people out, and sometimes what I do is not about money, but more about the challenge. In my opinion, everyone has a valid reason to want the software, but we can not all be winners. If I don't get anything out of this, then fine, but I just want everyone to know, I understand them, their needs, and I want to thank you for this oppertunity for sharing.

Left on 1/30/2006 3:48:09 PM by Jason Estes
Comments: I am half owner in a consulting company that is being built on the Dave Ramsey principals; we don’t borrow money, ever! That means we are growing the business slower than most other businesses in our field. We have been using Team System in our 9 to 5 jobs for the past few months and have fallen in love with it capabilities. Our firm has just landed a contract that looks like it could allow us to start working as consultants fulltime but we do not currently have the tools required to do that. The express editions are great, but they will only take you so far.
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Left on 1/30/2006 2:09:51 PM by Frank Melvin
Comments: I have been an independent I.T. consultant for several years now. I'm currently recruiting U.S.-based consultants who are either out of work or who have experienced rate cuts and require after-hours work, to perform in-house development. I have a procurement company that is taking up my life savings to kick-off, but the future outlook appears good. Having a financial background, I came up with a good scheme to be able to pay my consultants well, and still compete with much offshore competition. I'm mostly acting as a PM on these projects, due to the immense coordination required between these designers/developers and BA's. Reviewing the specs on this Team coordination software, I believe this could help me and my people become even more competitive and allow me to get involved in more of the technical activities, as much of the PM activities I perform today are automated in the application. We're a small band of I.T. professionals without much room in our budget for immediate capital expenditures. Getting up-to-date with the Team software and an MSDN subscription at no extra cost would go a long way with our ability to be innovative, efficient and consequently even more competitive. Thank you.

Left on 1/30/2006 11:22:02 AM by Ron Richardson
Comments: My apologies. I thought I was logged in when I left my comment (1/30/2006 11:19:27 AM). Hopefully it will be considered in the contest. Please let me know if it is not.
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Left on 1/30/2006 11:19:27 AM by Anonymous
Comments: I believe the team I work with deserves this prize because our current setup is half-assed due to budget constraints and management not understanding our software needs. We currently are running subversion as our source control on a Pentium II computer stashed in the corner of our office. We don't have any way to share our code, and we have multiple copies of libraries and code on each developer's computer. Our graphics department has to email us changes that need updating on our site, because they don't have any method of pushing updates. We are also adding at least one more developer (hopefully two) to our team in the coming months, and would like to have a more complete/concrete development process. Unit testing is almost non-existent with our projects spread out and unorganized. With the pace our company is growing, we need the proven tools to help us manage that growth, rather than relying on a completely disjointed set of applications. (p.s. I’m from Erie, does that help me at all?)
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Left on 1/27/2006 2:31:04 PM by Mark Gibbons
Comments: What's real reason MS is not hip to the internet? The cutting edge of the web is using tubby on tracks and LIGHT. We need to prove to the web that MS can not just get down and boogie with the cool dudes, but outdance the youngsters. Our web 2.0 application is going to send them home to their mummies because it’s built on the rock of SQL server using reinforced c#. Microsoft gave them asynchronous HTTP, now we are going to show the web how to really use it.
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Left on 1/26/2006 9:58:54 PM by dave abate
Comments: I'm Dave. My sweet and beautiful girlfriend Maria is beginning to express unhappiness at the long hours I spend here at work, apart from her. She is an energetic, outgoing 'people-person' who has no experience being with someone having the demanding job of meeting deadlines for a small company trying to compete. We're developing Tablet PC software without a lot of resources and Team Suite would seriously reduce my overtime - and make my Maria happy again.

Left on 1/26/2006 6:27:06 PM by Allen Noyes
Comments: Obviously these fools
can't read the rules
It’s a 100 words or less
not as many words as you can confess.

I know this is weak
but hey I'm not a poet, just a computer geek

Websphere seems to rule at my location,
give me a tool that I can use to defeat this conglomeration.

I'm tired of working for the man
And with this tool that cost 10 grand
I can work on my own and feel like a real man.

If it is in your heart to award it to me
That would make my life pretty Suite!!

Left on 1/25/2006 2:13:33 PM by Anonymous
Comments: I want to learn the C# .Net 2005 and looking at current employer I think I will see the VS.Net 2005 in year 3005. (We are going over the posibility of moving our web app from ASP to .Net for last 3-4 Years...

Left on 1/22/2006 9:42:24 AM by Luca Maritan
Comments: With VSTS I’m going to develop some projects for my customers and some project and sometimes I’m going to work non-profit and, why not?, for leverage the IT technology of the world. I think I could really use these specific features of Visual Studio Team System, included the new SQL database, the unit testing, the visio and the MSDN subscription. I hope I didn’t make English errors, I’m Italian but with VSTS the nations can be closer . How? With asp.net 2.0 , obviously! ;-) Please consider me for one license. Thank you. Ah, these are one hundreds words, exactly.

Left on 1/21/2006 1:27:17 AM by Sean Foley
Comments: My company uses VS 2003/Vault/Fogbugz to create some super cool stuff (.NET processing terabytes of data, http://go.pictology.com). Getting Team Suite would allow us to free $ to use for more SQL Server licenses. We'll still be eating rice/beans, using doors for desks, etc., but we would be able to have some kick ass development tools along with money for beer.
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Left on 1/20/2006 12:01:34 PM by saravanan kumarashanmugam
Comments: A media-streaming server - an innovative, tightly integrated with windows vista (64 bit stuff)
- Initially going to build a core engine then a framework
- Dotnet2, 64bit support of team suite, going to help lot
Once we build this up then we will start up a company, the team is an e-team who are all close friends and worked same kind of projects with me in past.
Thank you
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Left on 1/15/2006 8:40:06 PM by Brett Errington
Comments: Why I need to win this prize? Oh how do I count the ways? However I’ll share the three main reasons: 1. VSTS: our organisation so desperately needs to introduce this version of Visual Studio to dig ourselves out of the unorganised ditch we’re constantly in. 2. MSDN Subscription: we always get the bare minimum to get by; it would be so nice to actually have access to the wealth of resources offered by this subscription. 3: I’m generally responsible for introducing new technology, and I’d really love to have some ammunition to win those battles with. Many thanks for this opportunity :)

Left on 1/14/2006 2:58:22 PM by Marcus Stade
Comments: No problem, it was worth a shot, right? ;o)
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Left on 1/14/2006 12:44:01 PM by Anonymous
Comments: Fixed it, but thanks for the offer.
No ratings available.

Left on 1/14/2006 11:12:23 AM by Marcus Stade
Comments: I'm sorry for the double posting. I have no idea why that happened, I only clicked once. Also, the link got fubared. One last thing. If you don't choose a rating, commenting fails. If you give me the license I'll fix your code ;o)

Left on 1/13/2006 10:26:29 PM by Marcus Stade
Comments: Reason #1: I'm a small ISV, currently developing software for local sports clubs, entertainment venues and most recently providing the code back-end for a stock photography site. Upgrading to VS2005 from VS2003 would prove invaluable to my business, sure to improve efficiency and productivity. In short: I need it to help me stay afloat and perhaps eventually expand!

Reason #2: I like kittens, please consider the following image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/14924869@N00/86260490/

Left on 1/13/2006 5:06:30 AM by Reuben Joseph
Comments: Working on such a product and develop myself will be a nice thing. I have been working on Microsoft technologies for the past 10 years, I will be really happy to get this. Thanks for the oppertunity.

Left on 1/12/2006 3:02:36 PM by Kevin Felichko
Comments: I have several uses for an MSDN subscription.

I want to start my own businesses (note: plural), and all of the software would be developed using Microsoft technologies. The added features of Visual Studio 2005 would speed up the development cycle.

I attend a local community college where I am also a Computer Science tutor. It would be nice to whip out my laptop and show aspiring developers alternatives to LAMP and Java.

My four year old told me that if he cannot write stored procedures in C#, he will go on a hunger strike. You cannot allow this. :)

Left on 1/10/2006 9:10:06 AM by Frederick Kuhne
Comments: Well, I don't really want to beg, plead or whine. So, that leaves justification. I recently got married and am looking to start a family. Having access to these tools would help me expand my skillset so that I will stay more marketable, longer. If I can do that, and make a decent living, I can support my family better and leave less stress for my wife and allow her to choose whether she wants to work or not rather than being forced. I don't have any determination to change the world with my programming, just to take care of my family.

Blessings,
Fred

Left on 1/9/2006 4:40:55 PM by charles malbaurn
Comments: My team and I are currently working on a community based web project that would allow people to share information relevant to there likes for free and in a easy to use fashion. Sort of like Open Directory but more user involved.

Considering the sheer costs of hosting and other things, the subscription would be very helpful for my team and cut out much more of the overhead associated with the project and allow us to concentrate on using the products that we want to use without the restrictions that otherwise would arise.

We are doing this without the intention of making any other then what is required to maintain the site and hopefully pay the people working on it; if we do profit, great. That is not the intention though.

Also, considering that it is a community based effort, everything will be documented as a case study of sorts so that others can learn what’s needed to create and maintain such a site; all the ups and downs and everything in the middle.

Left on 1/9/2006 8:59:23 AM by Derek Lakin
Comments: A most generous offering. What a fabulous prize. Here's my "Ode to Team Suite":

T is for Tools, of which there are plenty,
E is for Editions, of which there are twenty *.
A is for Additional tools that you get with some versions,
M is for MSDN library, for documentation excursions.

S is for Starter Kits; already there are eleven +,
U is for Unit Testing; now I'm in heaven!
I is for Integrated; the way the tools are,
T is for Team Foundation Server, that I covet from afar.
E is for Everything added together that makes me want to win this prize!

* Some artistic license taken here as it's more like 14, but I'm sure there are enough combinations including MSDN subscriptions to make twenty :P
+ Download here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/starterkits/

Left on 1/8/2006 8:45:11 PM by Paul Meyer
Comments: Patrick, wow, what a generous offer. I've been working from home last 18 months doing contract work mostly for non-profits like www.madd.org and www.jointogether.org. They don't use .NET, but a sub-site of MADD does - www.madd.org/tuhijo) My MSDN Universal subscription expired about a year ago and I can't afford to renew. Just started using DotNetNuke on a few sites and plan to use it for more - especially for small organizations and other non-profits. I'd like to keep working from home to help my wife with the home-schooling/supervision of our nine - soon to be ten children - and to keep developing our farm. The subscription would definately get used and be a great help. Thanks, Paul

Left on 1/7/2006 3:54:26 PM by Anonymous
Comments: Comments from the following blog: Patrick Santry's (aka wwwCoder) Blog, located at: http://blogs.wwwcoder.com/psantry/archive/2006/01/07/14726.aspx
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Left on 1/7/2006 5:14:37 AM by Anonymous
Comments: VSTS seems to be complete business solution provider, since Softwares targeting Financial Domains face the problems maximum due to fast requirement,alogrithimic changes and tracebility is lost over prolonged software usage since Design,Development,Maintainance is handled independently with different tools. Betas reveal VSTS as complete solution package and any user doesnt have to study multiple tools,tracking systems. I have projected to my seniors and they have asked me provide a demo, i would just like to have one license. I bank on VSTS in the future as Microsoft is looking into AOP where even i belive Business Analysts could use this tool.