Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Standard Upgrade

Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition is a comprehensive, high productivity professional development environment (for devs working alone) for building high performance, multi-tier applications for Windows, Web, and common consumer mobile devices.

Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition is an entry point professional development tool that maintains the simplicity of the Express line but delivers access to the powerful development tools necessary to construct data-focused client applications, n-tier applications (Connected Systems) using Web services, and rich Web applications. Visual Basic 6.0 developers moving to the .NET Framework will find that Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition combines the productivity enhancements coming to Visual Basic 2005 such as My, IntelliSense, Code Snippets, and Edit and Continue with the power that they require for constructing line of business applications and migrating to a modern development environment.

Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition also provides Web developers who are building line of business applications with a full-featured development environment for constructing advanced data-driven, dynamic applications, while still keeping a slimmed-down, Web focused IDE. Visual Studio Standard Edition includes advanced Web development features, such as pre-compilation of Web sites, full debugging tools, richer data-access, Section 507 and WCAG accessibility checking, and simplified support for site localization.

• Speed development using intuitive, WYSIWYG, drag-and-drop visual designers, a time-saving code editor, and an enhanced debugging environment.
• Automatically package and publish applications with a few easy clicks.
• Simplify interactive Web development. Easily manage consistent, reusable Web site layouts using time-saving Master Pages.

• Significantly reduce the amount of code you have to write and debug for common programming scenarios with hundreds of reusable controls.
• Tackle any development task. Create robust applications using the .NET Framework 2.0. Microsoft Visual C++ - also included - fully supports native and managed code
• Enhance Web application performance. Easily pre-compile Web applications for dramatic performance improvements.

• Microsoft Visual Basic, Microsoft Visual C#, Visual C++, and Microsoft Visual J# programming languages
• Tools for building Windows and Web solutions
• SmartPhone and Pocket PC development tools
• Tools for visually designing databases, queries, and stored procedures

• Integrated SQL Reporting Services
• Integrated ClickOnce support
• Dozens of new reusable controls for creating Windows and Web applications
• Master Pages support for maintaining a consistent look and feel across Web applications
• Edit and Continue for simple, intuitive debugging

• SQL Server 2005 Express Edition

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Microsoft Visual Studio 2005: Upgrade Information

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