Visual Studio .NET Launch Date Announced

By David Worthington | Published November 12, 2001, 5:42 PM

In last night's opening keynote address at COMDEX Fall 2001, Bill Gates chimed in that February 13, 2002 will be the official launch date of Visual Studio .NET. Launch events will be held in cities strewn across the United States and at worldwide locations. Visual Studio .NET is a crucial component of Microsoft's strategy to push developers toward XML Web services.

Beta 2 was released on June 19th coinciding with the tenth anniversary of Visual Basic, a language that stood as the basis for an entire generation of Windows applications.

Visual Studio .NET and Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect introduce three significant new features: software modeling, database modeling, and development frameworks and templates. Over 20 different programming languages -- including Microsoft's latest implementation of Java -- are supported. It also yields support for Web standards such as XML, SOAP, and UDDI to extend interoperability across platforms.

Register to attend a launch event by visiting the Visual Studio .NET launch site.

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I'm currently useing VS.NET Beta 2 and it's works great (The XP RC2 is the one that hang all day long).

The Beta 2 of VS.NET is seems to be functioning very well and I think the more MS will test the product, the more it will be better for us.

I understand that Half-Life has been dealied for about a year and you see how great the final product it (for it's time). So please take your time and make this product as tested as possible.

Thank you,
Ido./

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When Steve Balmer first unveiled VS.net in April 2000 he said it would be released within 12 months.

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Ok, I'm so sick of you people, you are so freakin stupid, it seems.

First, yall complain that MS rushes it's products out the door, and then you say that they are late getting the products out... it's either one or the other.

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Actually it appears your the idiot... MS is the only company to give a deadline for a project and miss it by almost a year. When they release it, it will still be to soon because when you program at microsoft you dont actually have to write clean code long as it works for them its good enough to release :) www.openbsd.org the only real os out there

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Look forward to breaking it

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Let me know when you have.....

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