Microsoft rebuilds .NET tools
C|Net | at | by Mike
Microsoft on Tuesday will offer a glimpse at future versions of its Visual Studio.Net development tools and highlight a number of additions to the product line. At a developers conference in San Francisco this week, Microsoft will also seek to build developer loyalty by detailing case studies of companies using Visual Studio.Net. Released about a year ago, Visual Studio.Net is a bundle of tools that lets developers work with a variety of programming languages to build applications that adhere to Web services standards.
Microsoft is in an ongoing competition with Java-oriented companies to attract developers to their respective tools, particularly as the adoption of Web services grows. Applications built around Web services protocols can more easily share data and processing between disparate applications than did previous programming methods.