Microsoft Touts Visual Studio, Gives Hints At Next Version

ToshiroOC · Feb 13, 2003, 11:27 AM

Visual Studio .Net 2003 will have a number of new tools when it's released next month, Microsoft said at the VSLive conference in San Francisco. At the same time, the company gave developers a peek at future versions of the development tool.

Eric Rudder, Microsoft's senior VP of developer and platform evangelism, highlighted the features in Visual Studio .Net 2003 and gave a glimpse of the next revision, code-named Whidbey, at the opening keynote of VSLive.

Among the highlights of Visual Studio .Net 2003, Rudder says, are improvements in security; connections to non-Microsoft data sources, such as Oracle's databases; and extensions to take the .Net Framework into the mobile world of phones and PDAs.

But Visual Studio .Net 2003, Rudder says, "is in some senses designed to be a small update." Greg DeMichillie, a senior analyst at Directions on Microsoft, a market-research firm dedicated to tracking Microsoft's products, agrees. "Visual Studio .Net 2003 is essentially taking a series of features that you had to download separately, and integrating them directly into the product," DeMichillie said Wednesday.

Microsoft is tying releases of its Visual Studio development environment to major releases of other server-based products in its lineup, Rudder says.

"You'll see Visual Studio .Net 2003 complement Windows Server 2003," which is also scheduled for a spring release, he said. "You'll see the next version of Visual Studio complement the next version of SQL Server, which we code-named Yukon. And then the version after that, you'll see the next version of Visual Studio complement our Longhorn release [of the next operating system]. We want to make sure that you have the right tools available at the right time to really take advantage of the platform."

--By Gregg Keizer, source: TechWeb News

Article can be read here.

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ToshiroOC Unbiased. Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 4,812 Rep Power: 0	Microsoft Touts Visual Studio, Gives Hints At Next Version Visual Studio .Net 2003 will have a number of new tools when it's released next month, Microsoft said at the VSLive conference in San Francisco. At the same time, the company gave developers a peek at future versions of the development tool. Eric Rudder, Microsoft's senior VP of developer and platform evangelism, highlighted the features in Visual Studio .Net 2003 and gave a glimpse of the next revision, code-named Whidbey, at the opening keynote of VSLive. Among the highlights of Visual Studio .Net 2003, Rudder says, are improvements in security; connections to non-Microsoft data sources, such as Oracle's databases; and extensions to take the .Net Framework into the mobile world of phones and PDAs. But Visual Studio .Net 2003, Rudder says, "is in some senses designed to be a small update." Greg DeMichillie, a senior analyst at Directions on Microsoft, a market-research firm dedicated to tracking Microsoft's products, agrees. "Visual Studio .Net 2003 is essentially taking a series of features that you had to download separately, and integrating them directly into the product," DeMichillie said Wednesday. Microsoft is tying releases of its Visual Studio development environment to major releases of other server-based products in its lineup, Rudder says. "You'll see Visual Studio .Net 2003 complement Windows Server 2003," which is also scheduled for a spring release, he said. "You'll see the next version of Visual Studio complement the next version of SQL Server, which we code-named Yukon. And then the version after that, you'll see the next version of Visual Studio complement our Longhorn release [of the next operating system]. We want to make sure that you have the right tools available at the right time to really take advantage of the platform." --By Gregg Keizer, source: TechWeb News Article can be read here.