Datasheet

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General
Languages
Visual Studio provides several programming
languages for software development
JScript 8.0 is an open implementation of JavaScript
for creating active online content for the Web
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Visual Basic 2008 is an evolution of the Visual Basic
language that is engineered for productively building
type-safe and object-oriented applications
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Visual C# 2008 brings the expressiveness and
elegance of C-style languages to enable rapid
application development for the .NET Framework
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Visual C++ 2008 provides a powerful and flexible
development environment for creating Microsoft
Windows–based and Microsoft .NET–based
applications
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Project System
Use the Project System to manage items required by
your development effort, such as references, data
connections, folders, and files
Auto-Convert Projects enables you to easily move
projects based on the .NET 2.0 Framework to .NET
Framework 3.5
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Multitargeting Support enables you to target your
code to a specific version of the .NET Framework
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Service Reference adds references to Windows
Communication Foundation (WCF) services
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Solution Explorer provides an organized view of a
solution's projects and files
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Solutions can contain multiple projects that you can
open, close, and save together
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Upgrade Wizard enables you to open a Visual Basic
6.0 project in Visual Basic 2008 and step through the
upgrade process
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Visual Studio Conversion Wizard enables you to
convert a solution or project to the project file
format that is used by this version of Visual Studio
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Web References enable you to use objects and
methods provided by a Web service in your code
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