Resources

Visual Studio and the Developer Roadmap

The Visual Studio 2005 home page is msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005.

The Visual Studio Team System home page is msdn.microsoft.com/teamsystem.

Microsoft’s overall developer platform is explained in the Dec. 2004 Directions on Microsoft “Developer Platform Roadmap.”

The status of DSI is discussed in “DSI Update” on page 14 of the June 2005 Update.

Unisys system integration and hardware on the Microsoft platform are outlined at www.unisys.com/microsoft.

SQL Server 2005 and Data Access

Other new features in SQL Server 2005 are outlined in “SQL Server Gets .NET, XML” on page 5 of the Jan. 2004 Update, “Analysis Services Matures in SQL Server 2005” on page 3 of the Feb. 2005 Update, and “Reporting Services Updated for SQL Server 2005” on page 15 of the July 2005 Update.

For a discussion of Business Intelligence features of SQL 2005, see the Sept. 2005 Research Report, “SQL Server 2005: Microsoft’s Business Intelligence Platform.”

Web Development

The ASP.NET home page is msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net.