With Microsoft® Visual Studio® .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework, developers can develop Web services quickly and integrate them easily with other applications. Most developers can lever existing skills, because the .NET Framework's common language runtime allows you to develop Web services using any modern programming language.

• Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework supply a complete solution for developers to build, deploy, and run Web services.
• These tools help enhance the performance, reliability, and security of Web services.

    

Program in the Right Language for the Task
Visual Studio .NET provides a single, unified development environment. Built on the .NET Framework, it provides support for working with Web services created in all modern programming languages. Applications and Web services created in one language can be programmed against and debugged in any other language supported by Visual Studio .NET. This greatly enhances the ability to use existing Web services to build new and exciting solutions.

Transform Applications into Web Services
Visual Studio .NET automatically creates the necessary XML and SOAP interface needed to turn an application into a Web service. Developers can concentrate on building the application, not on the plumbing for the Web service.

Reuse Existing Web Services
Developing with Web services is similar to developing with components. Visual Studio .NET gives developers the ease of importing Web services or using Web services hosted remotely and programming against them as they would a COM element today, saving time and giving developers the opportunity to concentrate on core functionality.

Microsoft .NET Framework and Microsoft .NET Compact Framework

The .NET Framework, and the device-focused .NET Compact Framework, are high-productivity, standards-based, multi-language application execution environments that handle essential plumbing chores and ease deployment. The application execution environment manages memory, addresses versioning issues, and improves the reliability, scalability, and security of your application. Components include the common language runtime, a rich set of class libraries for building Web services, and Microsoft ASP.NET.

The common language runtime is the engine in the .NET Framework that provides a managed execution environment, which is protected by industry-standard technologies, and is designed to support developers using many different languages to create applications.