Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 2003 Standard
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Visual Basic .NET 2003 provides the easiest, most productive language and tool for rapidly building applications for Microsoft Windows and the Web. Ideal for existing Visual Basic developers as well as new developers in the Microsoft .NET development environment, Visual Basic .NET 2003 delivers enhanced visual designers, increased application performance, and a powerful integrated development environment (IDE) to get you on the fast track to application development.
Intuitive visual designers for Windows Forms and Web Forms provide a single development model for building both rich desktop applications and broad-reach Web applications. No touch deployment alleviates problems of "DLL Hell" and enables you to deploy Windows - based applications as easily as Web applications. ADO.NET data access provides powerful classes and components for incorporating flexible data scenarios into your applications.
New support for mobile device application development enables you to use the skills you already have to build mobile Web applications and rich Pocket PC-based software. The XML Web service project template makes creating remote business logic components as easy as creating any class in Visual Basic. Optional object-oriented language constructs enable you to save time by reusing code and Windows Forms UI.
The enhanced Visual Basic .NET Upgrade Wizard, now available in all editions of Visual Basic .NET and Visual Studio .NET, enables you to upgrade existing Visual Basic 6.0 applications to Visual Basic .NET. Existing Visual Basic components can also be seamlessly referenced and consumed within the context of Visual Basic .NET 2003 applications.
With new Windows Forms, developers using Visual Basic .NET 2003 can build Windows-based applications that make use of the rich user interface features available in the Windows operating system. Many of the rapid application development (RAD) tools that developers have come to expect are found in Visual Basic .NET 2003, including drag-and-drop form design and the popular "code behind" forms model. In addition, features such as automatic control anchoring and docking eliminate the need for complex form-resize code. Controls such as the in-place menu editor deliver visual authoring of menus directly within the Windows Forms Designer.
Combined with greater application responsiveness, as well as simplified localization and accessibility, these features in Windows Forms make Visual Basic .NET 2003 the choice for today's Visual Basic developers.
Visual Basic .NET 2003 delivers the answer to many of your application setup and maintenance problems. If you ever installed a Visual Basic application that somehow broke an existing application - a problem that has come to be known as "DLL Hell" - you will welcome the capabilities of Visual Basic .NET 2003 and the Microsoft .NET Framework.
With Visual Basic .NET 2003, issues with Component Object Model (COM) registration and DLL overwrites are eliminated. Side-by-side versioning enables multiple versions of the same components to exist on the same machine, allowing applications to use the specific version of a component with which they were tested. XCOPY-deployment enables Windows-based applications to be deployed to client machines simply by copying files into the desired application directory. No complicated setup scripts or interactions with the system registry are required. In addition, the auto-downloading of applications for Windows makes the deployment of rich Windows-based applications as easy as deploying a Web page.
Using the new Web Forms Designer in Visual Basic .NET 2003, Visual Basic developers can apply the skills they have today to build true thin-client Web-based applications. Drag-and-drop Web Form creation delivers "Visual Basic for the Web" while code behind forms enables developers to replace limited scripting capabilities of the past with the full power and speed of the compiled Visual Basic .NET language. New intelligent rendering capabilities and server-side Web Form controls provide Web applications that render correctly on any browser running on any platform. The new HTML designer simplifies Web page design and delivers IntelliSense statement and tag completion for HTML documents. In addition, separation of HTML markup and code enable more efficient team-based development.
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