Visual Studio 2005 is a powerful, professional development tool that can help you easily construct data-focused client applications, n-tier applications (Connected Systems) using Web services, and rich Web applications.

Benefits:

• A highly productive development environment
  
• Drag-and-drop designers, a rich code editor, a first-class debugging environment, and a wealth of additional productivity aids help you build applications faster.
  
• Develop and debug multitier server applications
  
• Framework are designed from the ground up to help you build Connected Systems applications. Also receive industry-leading support for Web services and other standards.
  
• Build solutions for SQL Server 2005
  
• The new, integrated, visual database design and reporting tools make it easy to build reliable, scalable, data-oriented applications for SQL Server and other databases.
  
• Extend and customize the Visual Studio IDE
  
• Use the Visual Studio SDK to create your own modifications, or choose from more than 250 VSIP partners who can add value to the Visual Studio environment in the form of specialized components, enhanced debuggers, new programming languages, and more.