Visual Studio .NET replaced Visual Studio 7.0 as the recommended Microsoft way for developing web sites and Windows Forms appications. The package supports C# and VB.NET, as well as other programming languages. Specific changes include:
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| Web forms | You can use Visual Studio .NET 2002 to create web forms - encapsulating hundreds of days of development time in a single sentence. An example web form in VS.NET is shown below. |
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| XML web services | You can use VS.NET to create web services, offering data to other web users in XML format. The Google API as a web service is shown below |
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You can view a full list of changes in recent versions of Visual Studio by returning to our main Visual Studio version history page.
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