Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2005 Upgrade [OLD VERSION]

by Microsoft

Product Features

• Complete development environment with comprehensive application development features, including improved visual designers, code editors, and programming languages for optimum productivity.
• Develop and debug mulitier server applications from with the unified development enviroment - even remotely.
• Build tools that extend the Visual Studio Integrated Development enviroment using the Visual Studio Software Developers Kit.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000BT8TRG
• Item model number: C5E-00010
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 18, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,970 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #56 in Software > Programming > Programming Languages

Product Description

Amazon.com

Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2005 is one of the most significant developer tools available for building high-performance, multi-tier applications for Windows, the Web, and mobile devices. Designed for developers working alone or in small teams, Visual Studio Pro 2005 features integrated visual database tools for designing databases, tables, and stored procedures. You can also design, debug, and deploy multi-tier applications; and build a wide array of high-performance solutions faster than ever.

Visual Studio 2005 combined with ASP.NET 2.0 offers an improved environment for publishing and administering a Web site. View larger.

The new ClickOnce application deployment technology makes deploying a desktop application as easy as deploying a web application. View larger.

The Solution Explorer now makes it easy for you to clean up unwanted files. View larger.

With Visual Studio Pro 2005's powerful, enterprise-class application platform, you can also easily create and deploy client applications, and automatically publish and maintain applications and their dependencies with integrated ClickOnce support. With more than 50 new controls and hundreds of built-in services for site security, personalization and look and feel, Visual Studio Pro 2005 gives you the tools it takes to build fast, interactive Web applications. Enhanced visual designers and editors speed up development times significantly, while intuitive visual designers help to improve your XML editing and XSLT debugging. In short, you can tackle just about any development task, whether its creating dynamic, data-driven applications using an integrated data access, design, and reporting environment, or creating robust applications using the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, the .NET Compact Framework 2.0, and native code -- all supported by Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. You can also easily develop for 64-bit systems using a 64-bit version of the .NET Framework.

Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition includes Microsoft Visual Basic, Microsoft Visual C#, Microsoft Visual C++, and Microsoft Visual J# programming languages; tools for building Windows and Web solutions; SmartPhone and Pocket PC development tools for building Windows CE-based applications; Visual Database tools; advanced debugging tools, including cross-machine debugging; and much more.

Cross Machine Debugging and Better Web Publishing
Visual Studio 2005, combined with ASP.NET 2.0, offers an improved environment for publishing and administering a Web site. With the built-in publishing features, such as integrated File Transfer Protocol (FTP), you can keep files in your local project and synchronize them with files located on a remote Web server. Visual Studio automatically logs copied files which helps you to identify whether the remote site has been updated with the latest files. And to help protect your site and your IP, you can pre-compile a Web site to publish only executable code, no source files, to your production server. The Web site configuration interface makes it easy to set up and maintain applications, and the new Web Site Administration Tool helps you manage remote sites. You can manage cache settings at the server and Web site level to improve the performance of your published Web sites. And users can manage their own sites with the new ASP.NET Microsoft Management Console (MMC) plug-in.

The Solution Explorer in Visual Studio 2005 also makes it easy for you to clean up unwanted files. Simply choose Clean Solution from the Build Menu and all the intermediate files and output directories in your whole solution will be removed. For Visual C++, you can also use the Project Only submenu of the Build Menu to clean only the project currently selected in Solution Explorer, without cleaning any project dependencies or solution files. Other features include a new checksum feature that matches multiple source file names without any confusion; provider-driven application services that let you extend the powerful features of Visual Studio Team System by adding your own ASP .NET application services seamlessly, giving you complete control over the tools and environment.

Product Description

Microsoft offers Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition for professional developers working alone or in small teams. It gives them complete access to the .NET Framework 2.0, a robust, fully functional development environment; support for creating tools that extend the Visual Studio integrated development environment; and tools for creating multi-tier Windows, Web, and mobile device applications.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

36 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not ready for Prime Time, December 12, 2005

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IT Sales "Salesman" (Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2005 Upgrade [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

(Based on Microsoft Subscription Final Release Product. Tested December 2005)

Lots of nifty features, but unfortunately it needs a few more months of development before it will really be stable. They say a serious update will be coming out sometime in mid 2006. Hopefully the problems with hangups, corrupted project files, and the maddeningly slow text input will be fixed then, so we can start to do some serious programming with this potentially very exciting product.

18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Pros and cons just about cancel each other out, February 20, 2006

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C P "chris9988" (Japan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2005 Upgrade [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

Focusing on all the good points only, this is a great upgrade from VS 2003. HOWEVER, two major cons: there are many bugs and the environment is SLOW. I have confirmed that these problems are common by searching various forums and blogs. It is quite easy to crash this program and I spend too much time waiting while navigating through the software.

These two factors certainly inhibit productivity. I am just praying the service pack due out this summer (yes, we have to wait that long) deals with these issues. I have invested a lot of time learning the .net framework and if MS doesn't get its act together on the next service pack or (g0d help us by the next version of Visual Studio) I will sorely regret not learning an alternative productivity package. I have my fingers crossed.

15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Potential 5 star when rough edges are smoothed out, January 4, 2006

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Eddie "EEU" (Maryland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2005 Upgrade [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

I have been working on the Beta 2 version of the application and seriously considering buying the release version until I read the review above. It appears a lot of the performance and corrupt project file issues have not been fully corrected in the release version. I have had, on occassion, to get into the source code (using a text editor) to make some corrections to get the project back and working. I imagine, though, the release version is an improvement on the beta 2 version of which I am familiar.

That said, this is a great product for those familiar with earlier versions of Visual studio. The Integration of the database part of things so you can perform decent database operations without having reinvent the wheel everytime is quite welcome. Database gurus can write all the stored procedures, put together database diagrams, design tables and queries to their hearts content using roughly the same environment as the rest of the application.

Web developers will be thrilled with the tools available.

The intellisense technology is quite improved, flagging things like variables that have not been fully initialized like being initialized in some blocks but not in other areas - leaving the code open to null references.

My installation involved a SQL server version upgrade. I hope the release version has a smoother path to that upgrade. If not, what I would advice is follow the directions carefully, and where that does not work, scour the internet for clues and a allot a lot of time.

The summary is that, without the bugs, this is an excellent product. It is up to you to decide whether to upgrade now or wait for the service release. Either way, when you get to try it, I imagine you'd be pleased with the outcome.