RSSIW2000: Visual Studio .NET Looks Promising
By Aaron Dobbins | Published October 27, 2000, 2:48 PM
Live From IW2000: The Microsoft Partner Pavilion here at Internet world is what could only be described as massive. Sifting through all of the companies and products in the pavilion can be a rather daunting task. I did happen upon the Visual Studio .Net booth however, and after a quick demonstration of the power was greatly impressed with the capabilities of the not yet feature complete software.
As it turns out, I just happened to be talking to one of the product managers for the suite, so he told me anything and everything I wanted to know about the programs.
First of all, an HTML and DB editor is built into VS.Net, which is nice for the entire .NET movement to push everything to the Web. Further inquiry led to the "Web services" idea, and with the quick entry of
The product manager then demonstrated how a person working on a completely different project on a completely different server, could locate that service which was made public and use it without needing to know the actual code behind it. Because the service only calls the function at run-time, there is no decrease in speed to load the function when the page is first visited. In other words, the service only runs when called.
One of the interesting aspects is that no knowledge of XML is necessary to get the Web services to function properly. VS.Net takes care of everything for you. With the software you can completely program the front-end, the back-end, and anything in between to make your Web sites dynamic and create services for other people.
It can be said that developers should definitely look forward to the coming software suite which is supposed to hit retail fall of next year. Beta 1 is scheduled to arrive late November/early December, with Beta 2 coming to developers in April. For all the information you ever wanted to know about Visual Studio .Net visit Microsoft.
Does VS.net just add to VB and VC++ or does it totally replace them with C# and XML? Do VB and VC++ still exist as obviously separate development languages in VS.net? I know MS wants .NET to be the future of all computer use, but right now I dont want to develop web-only stuff, I want to still be able to develop simple VC++ and VB apps to perform simple tasks on stand alone or LAN based computers.
When is the computer industry gonna realize that there are a huge number of companies without much more than a dial up connection to the net, and the majority of companies arent very interested in moving there whole line of business systems into web based systems. Intranets never really took off except in the biggest corporates, and as far as I can see a lot of .Net isnt much more than the next generation of intranet systems.
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|The new Visual Studio 7, or .net, will include VC++ with the ability to use the .net runtime and VB, C#, and some others. VB is changing quite a bit with the code looking so what like C#. It will be gaining features such as inheritance and threading capabilities.
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|that is supposed to some what like C#
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|Does this mean that the average programmer/web designer doesnt need to know the code behind what they are writing...
If this is the case then I would hate to have to debug the code created by VS.Net. just look at what frontpage does to the code it creates when a user creates a webpage using it. the code is virtually unreadable by even the most knowledgeable developers.
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|VS.Net looks pretty cool. I only hope that it's VS 6 with improvements. By the way, does anyone know if being a part of a Microsoft beta helps you get into other Microsoft betas? I finally was picked as a tester for something of theres, Office 10, and I applied for VS.Net so I was hoping being a part of the Office 10 test would help me become a tester for VS.Net. I'll see soon enough.
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|--VS.Net takes care of everything for you.
they better also let the user control everything as well, unlike FP which likes to think that it knows what you want it to do.
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|If you have used FP2k You would not be saying such things... FP never touches any of my Client or Server Side script unless it is within an tag... that's pretty good.
hint: Tools Page Options HTML Source (Tab) ... Check Preserve exisiting HTML Radio.
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|Sorry its supposed to say ...within an option tag...
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