Visual Studio

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

• MicrosoftVisual 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.

Developerscan use a variety of programming environments to create Web services.Microsoft Visual Studio .NET represents the best development environment for .NET-connected software and services.

VisualStudio .NET advances the high-productivity programming languages:Microsoft Visual Basic®, which includes new object-oriented programmingfeatures; Microsoft Visual C++®, which advances Microsoft Windows®development and enables you to build .NET-connected applications; and C#, which brings RAD to the C and C++ developer.

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

Transform Applications into Web Services
VisualStudio .NET automatically creates the necessary XML and SOAP interfaceneeded to turn an application into a Web service. Developers canconcentrate on building the application, not on the plumbing for the Web service.

Reuse Existing Web Services
Developingwith Web services is similar to developing with components. VisualStudio .NET gives developers the ease of importing Web services orusing Web services hosted remotely and programming against them as theywould 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, arehigh-productivity, standards-based, multi-language applicationexecution environments that handle essential plumbing chores and easedeployment. The application execution environment manages memory,addresses versioning issues, and improves the reliability, scalability,and security of your application. Components include the commonlanguage runtime, a rich set of class libraries for building Web services, and Microsoft ASP.NET.

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