Visual Studio Roadmap

The next three releases of Visual Studio (VS) will be synchronized with major operating system and server application releases, Microsoft has revealed. The next release should come at the same time as Windows .NET Server and integrates previously available add-ons for programming mobile devices and working in the Java language. Subsequent releases are tied to SQL Server “Yukon” and the “Longhorn” version of Windows. Microsoft hopes future versions of VS will encourage developers to build applications that rely on the latest releases of these server products and thereby drive server upgrades.

“Everett” Release Integrates Add-Ons

The most imminent release of VS is code-named Everett (a city just north of Microsoft’s Redmond, WA, headquarters). The ship date for Everett is tied to Windows .NET Server and is expected to be late 2002 or early 2003. Because of the relatively short time between the initial release of Visual Studio (in Mar. 2002) and of Everett, few new features are planned, but Everett does integrate some important add-ons which were previously downloaded and installed separately. These components include the following: