Microsoft® .NET Kick Start

Using Visual Studio .NET

In Chapter 5, “Getting Started with Visual Studio .NET: Tools for Developing .NET Applications,” you took a quick look at Visual Studio .NET 2003. Visual Studio .NET provides an integrated environment for developing .NET Windows Web applications and Web services (shown in Figure 9.3). Actually, the visual development of Web services isn't very rich in Visual Studio .NET; although, as you will see later, Web services orchestration add-in support by BizTalk Server 2004 does add a whole lot of features to Visual Studio .NET. However, Visual Studio .NET excels at overall project management, source code control, traditional IDE features, and the most important feature—debugging of Web services. After Web services are launched ...