VS to be powered by AmberPoint Express

BANGALORE: Microsoft has partnered with software firm AmberPoint to provide Web services management and monitoring functionality to its upcoming Visual Studio 2005 Team System. Said an online report.

Beta one of Visual Studio 2005 has come incorporated with a scaled-down version Visual Studio 2005, informed Ed Horst, AmberPoint's vice president of marketing. The full version of Team System will be powered with AmberPoint Express that provides monitoring, analysis and management of Web services created in service-oriented architectures (SOAs). Said the report.

Developers can use AmberPoint tools before deploying an application built with Visual Studio Team System, informed Horst. AmberPoint Express will detect any service created in Visual Studio Team System and provide information about those services, such as performance spikes or possible errors in sending messages. By integrating that functionality with Team System, developers working on any facet of an application life cycle--from coders to quality insurance--can access the service information, he said.