TechEd: MS completes Web services tool kit
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XML will provide the technology standard necessary for Web services and Microsoft's .net platform will be the premier platform for development, general manager of developer platform and evangelism Vic Gundotra said at Microsoft's TechEd conference in Barcelona. Visual Basic.net will be key to the simple development of Web services, and will be the tool that carries the industry forward, he said. "Where the development of HTML allowed easy display of Web pages, Visual Studio will be the step that makes Web services possible." Gundotra also announced the launch of Visual J#.net, which allows developers to take an existing Java application and move it to .net for development in that environment.