A common question in my mind is how to correctly refer to the various editions of Team System in a short form. Since the full name is so long:
Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition
for example.
Gert Draper, the architect on the Team Database Edition team, suggests using VSDB for the Database edition and VSDE for the developer edition. However, he also uses VSTS-DB. Team Database Edition is used by the install program.
So using the names from the product page, let's create a naming convention list:
| Full Name | Short Name | Long Acronym | Short Acronym |
| Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite | Team Suite | VSTS-STE | VSTS |
| Visual Studio Team System 2008 Architecture Edition | Team Architecture Edition | VSTS-AE | VSAE |
| Visual Studio Team System 2008 Developer Edition | Team Developer Edition | VSTS-DE | VSDE |
| Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition | Team Database Edition | VSTS-DB | VSDB |
| Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Edition | Team Test Edition | VSTS-TE | VSTE |
| Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server | Team Foundation Server | VSTS-TFS | TFS |
Any suggested alterations?