IW2000: Visual Studio .NET Looks Promising
Live From IW2000: The Microsoft Partner Pavilion here at Internet world is what could only be described as massive. Sifting through all of the companies and products in the pavilion can be a rather daunting task. I did happen upon the Visual Studio .Net booth however, and after a quick demonstration of the power was greatly impressed with the capabilities of the not yet feature complete software.
As it turns out, I just happened to be talking to one of the product managers for the suite, so he told me anything and everything I wanted to know about the programs.
First of all, an HTML and DB editor is built into VS.Net, which is nice for the entire .NET movement to push everything to the Web. Further inquiry led to the "Web services" idea, and with the quick entry of
The product manager then demonstrated how a person working on a completely different project on a completely different server, could locate that service which was made public and use it without needing to know the actual code behind it. Because the service only calls the function at run-time, there is no decrease in speed to load the function when the page is first visited. In other words, the service only runs when called.
One of the interesting aspects is that no knowledge of XML is necessary to get the Web services to function properly. VS.Net takes care of everything for you. With the software you can completely program the front-end, the back-end, and anything in between to make your Web sites dynamic and create services for other people.
It can be said that developers should definitely look forward to the coming software suite which is supposed to hit retail fall of next year. Beta 1 is scheduled to arrive late November/early December, with Beta 2 coming to developers in April. For all the information you ever wanted to know about Visual Studio .Net visit Microsoft.