Microsoft Visual Studio Professional w/MSDN Professional 2005 renewal [OLD VERSION] by Microsoft

Description

Microsoft offers Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition for professional developers working alone or in small teams. It gives them complete access to the .NET Framework 2.0, a robust, fully functional development environment; support for creating tools that extend the Visual Studio integrated development environment; and tools for creating multi-tier Windows, Web, and mobile device applications.

Platforms

Windows 2000, Windows XP

Product Features

• Complete development environment with comprehensive application development features, including improved visual designers, code editors, and programming languages for optimum productivity.
• Develop and debug mulitier server applications from with the unified development enviroment – even remotely.
• Build tools that extend the Visual Studio Integrated Development enviroment using the Visual Studio Software Developers Kit.
• MSDN Professional includes latest Microsoft operating systems.
• MSDN includes technical support and continuously updated technical content.

Editorial Review

Microsoft Visual Studio Pro 2005 with MSDN Premium is one of the most significant developer tools available for building high-performance, multi-tier applications for Windows, the Web, and mobile devices. Designed for developers working alone or in small teams, Visual Studio Pro 2005 features integrated visual database tools for designing databases, tables, and stored procedures. You can also design, debug, and deploy multi-tier applications; and build a wide array of high-performance solutions faster than ever.

Visual Studio 2005 combined with ASP.NET 2.0 offers an improved environment for publishing and administering a Web site. View larger.

The new ClickOnce application deployment technology makes deploying a desktop application as easy as deploying a web application. View larger.

The Solution Explorer now makes it easy for you to clean up unwanted files. View larger.

With Visual Studio Pro 2005's powerful, enterprise-class application platform, you can also easily create and deploy client applications, and automatically publish and maintain applications and their dependencies with integrated ClickOnce support. With more than 50 new controls and hundreds of built-in services for site security, personalization and look and feel, Visual Studio Pro 2005 gives you the tools it takes to build fast, interactive Web applications. Enhanced visual designers and editors speed up development times significantly, while intuitive visual designers help to improve your XML editing and XSLT debugging. In short, you can tackle just about any development task, whether its creating dynamic, data-driven applications using an integrated data access, design, and reporting environment, or creating robust applications using the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, the .NET Compact Framework 2.0, and native code — all supported by Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. You can ! also easily develop for 64-bit systems using a 64-bit version of the .NET Framework.

Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition includes Microsoft Visual Basic, Microsoft Visual C#, Microsoft Visual C++, and Microsoft Visual J# programming languages; tools for building Windows and Web solutions; SmartPhone and Pocket PC development tools for building Windows CE-based applications; Visual Database tools; advanced debugging tools, including cross-machine debugging; and much more.

Cross Machine Debugging and Better Web Publishing
Visual Studio 2005, combined with ASP.NET 2.0, offers an improved environment for publishing and administering a Web site. With the built-in publishing features, such as integrated File Transfer Protocol (FTP), you can keep files in your local project and synchronize them with files located on a remote Web server. Visual Studio automatically logs copied files which helps you to identify whether the remote site has been updated with the latest files. And to help protect your site and your IP, you can pre-compile a Web site to publish only executable code, no source files, to your production server. The Web site configuration interface makes it easy to set up and maintain applications, and the new Web Site Administration Tool helps you manage remote sites. You can manage cache settings at the server and Web site level to improve the performance of your published Web sites. And users can manage their own sites with the new ASP.NET Microsoft Management Console (MMC) plug-in.

The Solution Explorer in Visual Studio 2005 also makes it easy for you to clean up unwanted files. Simply choose Clean Solution from the Build Menu and all the intermediate files and output directories in your whole solution will be removed. For Visual C++, you can also use the Project Only submenu of the Build Menu to clean only the project currently selected in Solution Explorer, without cleaning any project dependencies or solution files. Other features include a new checksum feature that matches multiple source file names without any confusion; provider-driven application services that let you extend the powerful features of Visual Studio Team System by adding your own ASP .NET application services seamlessly, giving you complete control over the tools and environment.

MSDN Premium Subscriptions
Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite also includes an MSDN Premium Subscription. An MSDN Premium Subscription provides continuous, priority access to the technologies you need to support Visual Studio Team System and build a broad range of applications and Web services, including the latest versions of Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Windows XP Professional Edition, Windows XP Home Edition, and future Windows releases. (Usage rights are limited to development and testing only.)

With the subscription, your technical support includes unlimited usage of MSDN Managed Newsgroups for online support with a guaranteed response time of two business days, phone-based support incidents, and free access to MSDN Online Concierge for nontechnical questions regarding navigation of the MSDN site, Knowledge Base article searches, and MSDN Subscriber Downloads. Also, continuously updated technical content is available through the MSDN Library, which offers comprehensive programming information, code samples, sample applications, technical documentation and articles, and the Microsoft Developer Knowledge Base.

Customers who qualify for the renewal price include current subscribers to:

• Any Visual Studio Team edition with MSDN Premium Subscription
• MSDN Universal