Architecture Tools vs build server, which edition of VS2010 ?

Question

The architecture tools and the layers diagram seems interesting for us to ensure our design and architecture.
As far as i understand, we must have an ultimate edition for our architect to be able to create the UML and such archictecture layer and diagram.
But if we have a build server, which version of VS 2010 do we must use it to be able to validate the layer rules as part of the continuous build ?




Regards,
Frederic Forjan

Answer 1

As Ive heard licesing for the new SKU's and buildserver has not changed from ts2008. As long as you have one Ultimate licens in your project, you can install it on the buildserver withous any extra licens.

Answer 2

Hey Frederic,

With VS 2010, you do not need to install a client version of a SKU to perform layer validation.
The build server install supports layer validation already.

Hope that helps

Thanks
Suhail Dutta

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Suhail Dutta | Program Manager | Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Architects