Updated: July 12, 2020 (December 9, 2002)

Visual Studio .NET 2003 in Beta

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Visual Studio .NET (VS.NET) 2003 is currently circulating in beta form, and Microsoft plans to release the finished product in Apr. 2003. Code-named Everett, VS.NET 2003 will be a minor release providing supported versions of some formerly free, unsupported add-ons. To help spur adoption, Microsoft will offer current VS.NET customers a significant discount on upgrades for a limited time.

Most notable among the add-ons rolled into VS.NET are the following:

The Smart Device Extensions, .NET Compact Framework, and ASP.NET Mobile Controls, which enable developers to write applications for the Pocket PC, wireless phones, and other mobile devices
Managed data providers for Oracle and ODBC databases, which will speed performance for applications using those data sources
Visual J#, a Java-language development tool for building applications that run on the .NET Framework
The Web Services SDK, which provides test implementations of proposed specifications for Web services security, routing,

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