Articles about Visual Studio

Microsoft has announced the availability its first .Net product for the new millennium, Visual Studio for Applications. According to the press release, VSA allows businesses to "tailor Web applications with specialized business logic [and] harness the power of the .NET platform." VSA offers support for custom code written in VisualStudio.Net, Microsoft's next version of the popular VB writing software. VS.Net is the first of the .Net series of languages to support VSA, the others will follow suit upon their release. For more information on the release of Visual Studio for Applications, visit Microsoft.

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For those of you who may not have seen screenshots already, one BetaNews reader was kind enough to send in a few images from Microsoft's Visual Studio .Net, currently enjoying Beta 1 status. Newly redesigned menus add a little spice to the otherwise boring every day interface, along with a host of new features and functions make Visual Studio .Net very promising for developers everywhere. View the screenshots here: Splash Screen, Program Bug, Bug Reporting, Development Environment 1, Development Environment 2. Enjoy!

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In more Microsoft beta news, the Redmond giant has officially sent out beta invitations for the upcoming Visual Studio .Net (Version 7.0). The beta program will begin in the coming months, with an official Beta 1 expected later this month or early next month. Developers are expected to receive Beta 2 of the software in April, followed by the final release in the latter half of 2001. For more information about Visual Studio .Net, read this BetaNews article from InternetWorld, or visit Microsoft.

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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.

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According to the Microsoft Web site, Visual Studio.NET Beta 1 is nearing completion, and will soon be available to MSDN subscribers. This will give developers the first look at the upcoming innovations in the software package, which will give a complete development environment for the powerful new platform. Along with Visual Studio.Net, subscribers will get Visual Studio 6.0 Enterprise Edition; Vital develop and test versions of the recently announced .NET Enterprise Servers, including the recently released SQL Server 2000; All additional beta releases of Visual Studio.NET, including the final release code; and Microsoft Operating systems - including Windows 2000, and Windows Millennium Edition; as well as Select betas, SDKs, DDK, and the MSDN Library. For more information visit MSDN.

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Microsoft will release Service Pack 4 for Visual Studio 6.0 tomorrow. This service pack addresses customer issues amongst many of the Visual Studio 6.0 tools, and is a 'superset' of Visual Studio service packs 1, 2, and 3.

Available for free on the Visual Studio Web site as either a download or a CD order. As with all service packs, Microsoft recommends that developers creating apps with Visual Studio 6.0 install the VS SP4 prior to releasing their applications.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/sp

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The SOAP Toolkit for Visual Studio 6.0 is now available from the Microsoft Developers Network Web site. The Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) allows developers to easily create Web services for any site using the toolkit extension for Visual Studio. SOAP uses XML to link applications together with a common communications protocol. Developers can easily convert current applications without rewriting the entire program in XML, as well as utilize several other add-ons to the Visual Studio suite. Chris Atkinson, vice president for Windows DNA and Web Services at Microsoft told the press, "the SOAP Toolkit helps developers experience the easy integration promised by Web Services and expands the capabilities of the Windows DNA 2000 platform for next-generation Web solutions." Visit Microsoft for more information.

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