Visual Studio 2005 to have business intelligence tools

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Microsoft's forthcoming SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 products will include functionality allowing developers to add business intelligence features to their applications, a Microsoft executive announced Friday.

With the new Visual Studio Controls for SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services, enterprise developers can add data from back-end systems to their applications without the need to build complicated connections to those systems, said Bill Baker, general manager for SQL Server at Microsoft.