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Visual Studio .NET is Microsoft's rapid application development tool for building next-generation Web applications and XML Web services. Visual Studio .NET empowers developers to design broad-reach Web applications for any device and any platform. In addition, Visual Studio .NET is built on, and fully integrated with, the Microsoft .NET Framework. This integration enables Visual Studio .NET to provide deep support for multiple programming languages and to perform many common programming tasks automatically—freeing developers to rapidly create Web applications using their language of choice.

Visual Studio .NET includes a single integrated development environment (IDE) with rapid application development features for building Web applications and middle-tier business logic, and rapid application development XML designers for working with data. In addition to Visual Studio .NET Academic, the entire Visual Studio .NET family includes Visual Studio .NET Professional, Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Developer , and Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect.

Top 10 Reasons to use Visual Studio .NET

1. Comprehensive Integrated Development Environment (IDE): Visual Studio .NET is a single application development tool that spans the software development life-cycle; life-cycle features enable the planning, analyzing, designing, building, testing, and coordinating of teams.
2. Rich debugging capabilities: Easily debug across languages, machines, and processes.
3. Architectural support: Implement best practices and architectural guidelines by developing enterprise templates in VS.NET.
4. Rapid Application Development (RAD): Visual Studio .NET is all about RAD for the client AND server.
5. XML Web Services: Develop reusable Web Services for use internally or externally, and utilize Web Services developed by other companies. Web Services communicate through XML wrapped in SOAP over HTTP, enabling all disparate systems that support XML to consume Web Services. Web Services are easy to create, as much of the underlying code is generated for you by Visual Studio .NET.
6. XML Support: Quickly develop XML documents and schemas using visual tools directly in the IDE.
7. Extend and Customize Visual Studio .NET: Easily extend the IDE with custom add-ins, or integrate third-party tools into the Visual Studio .NET environment. Rational Rose, and Compuware DevPartner Profiler are examples of the 38 third-party tools that can integrate into Visual Studio .NET.
8. Languages: Develop in the language that you are most comfortable with, as cross-language development is supported. Use Visual Studio .NET to develop powerful applications with Visual Basic .NET, Visual C# .NET, Visual C++ .NET, Visual J# .NET (beta), or any of the 22 third party languages.
9. Less Code, Faster Applications: Powerful new features such as attributes and Web Services require less code to create rich applications, and code executes more quickly.
10. Mobile device support: Mobile Web Controls allow you to write code once and intelligently render it based on the device.