Programmers to get taste of Visual Studio 2005
C|Net | at | by Mike
The company is expected to distribute the latest "technology preview" of Visual Studio 2005, a major upgrade of the company's flagship development tool. The software giant last week said that it will delay the release of Visual Studio 2005 until the first half of next year and will begin a test program in the coming months.
In addition, Microsoft will provide more details on the .Net Compact Framework 2.0, according to a company representative. The .Net Compact Framework, which Gates launched a year ago, is the software plumbing needed to run Web services applications on handheld devices. The .Net software allows developers to write applications with Microsoft's widely used Visual Studio.Net 2003, rather than specialized tools.