Feb 05, 2006 04:41 PM
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(Updated Feb 05, 2006 04:45 PM)
Microsoft has released their newer version of Visual Studio .NET 2005. Its been around 3 months since it has surfed the Indian Market. Users who have already had a glimpse of its BETA version has started buying or downloading the software. Many people might have wondered about the much-ado on the release and its features. But, there are still a 95% of the users of earlier versions of .NET has to upgrade themselves to the latest one.
Looking at the features of Visual Studio .NET 2005, one can definitely go for it for their life-time software development work. It is really cool to see certain changes in the ado.net data providers, generics and anonymous methods in C# language and much more better enhancements made in the ASP.NET 2.0. Increased productivity in Writing code and increased performance has boosted the whole power of Visual Studio .NET.
The IDE(Integrated Development Environment) for the Visual Studio 2005 has the same layout but the supportive tools, controls and components are added for the benefit of the developers. Running on top of .NET Framework 2.0, Visual studio 2005 provides compilers for four different languages, VB, C#, C++ and J#. Integration and Inter-operability between these languages is supported in much nicer way than in the previous versions of .NET.
Users can develop virtually any type of application. Be it, a console application, windows application, or windows service. On the Internet, users can develop websites and web applications. Web Service, a reusable component on the web, is a greater attraction, that can be developed simply with the classes and components provided in Visual Studio .Net. Otherwise, one has to write a WebService using WSDL, SOAP and other supportive protocols.WebParts are newer inclusions that run separately on the server,yet being a part of a web page.
With Visual Studio .NET 2005, you can build smarter applications for your mobile, smartphone, pocket pc etc. It offers you a range of tools to develop applications for any such smaller device. Windows Compact Frameowrk, Windows Mobile ToolKit, .NET Compact Framework based on Smart Client Architecture are supported entirely in VS.Net 2005.
Besides this, VS.NET Express editions are also available individually for C#, VB.Net, ASP.NET applications.
