Microsoft rolls dice with Visual Studio.Net
ZDNet | at | by Mike
The launch of Visual Studio.Net (VS.Net) marks the official debut of Microsoft .Net, the ambitious, bet-the-company initiative that aspires to weave a fabric of XML-enabled software and services across the Internet. As Microsoft's flagship integrated development environment (IDE), VS.Net contains the first release versions of two major new programming languages--C# and Visual Basic.Net (VB.Net)--and signals the end of the old Visual Basic line. Together, VS.Net and its languages provide all the tools necessary to build and deploy applications on Microsoft's bold new platform.