Rapid Application Development: From modeling to coding and debugging, Visual Studio 2008 delivers improved language, designer, editor, and data features that will help you experience a breakthrough in productivity.

Collaborate Across the Development Cycle: Visual Studio 2008 enables developers, designers, testers, architects, and project managers to work together through shared tools and process integration, which reduces the time to solution

Create Outstanding User Experiences: Visual Studio 2008 offers developers new tools that speed creation of outstanding, highly personalized user experiences and connected applications using the latest platforms, including the Web, Windows Vista, the 2007 Microsoft Office system, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Windows Mobile, and Windows Server 2008.

Productive: Visual Studio-branded tools continually deliver better ways for software developers to do more with less energy wasted on repetition and drudgery. From efficient code editors, IntelliSense, Wizards, and multiple coding languages in one integrated development environment (IDE) to high-end application life-cycle management (ALM) products in Microsoft Visual Studio Team System, developers will find it all.

Integrated: With Visual Studio, software developers benefit from an integrated product experience that spans tools, servers, and services. Visual Studio products work well together—not just with one another, but also with other Microsoft software, such as Microsoft server products and the Microsoft Office system.

Comprehensive: Visual Studio offers a choice of tools for all phases of software development—development, testing, deployment, integration, and management—and for every kind of developer—from the novice to the skilled professional. Visual Studio is also engineered to support development across all types of devices—PCs, servers, the Web, and mobile devices.

Reliable: Visual Studio is engineered and tested to be consistently dependable, secure, interoperable, and compatible. Visual Studio offers an unmatched combination of security features, scalability, and interoperability. Although Visual Studio always incorporates forward-thinking features, it is designed to ensure backward-compatibility wherever possible.