Microsoft Announces Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition

In Orlando on September 13, Microsoft announced Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition. Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition offers occasional developers working in small organizations a development tool that maintains the simplicity of the Visual Studio Express products but delivers access to other features for building data-driven Smart Client and Web applications. Developers using Visual Basic 6.0 will find that Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition helps ease migration to the .NET Framework by combining the productivity enhancements of Visual Basic 2005 with the power required for constructing line-of-business applications. Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition also provides Web developers an environment for quickly building and deploying Web sites and Web services.
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