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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.
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 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. |
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.
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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.
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48 of 49 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best development environment out there... but you can try before buying,
By sdsff "sdsff" (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2005 (OLD VERSION) (CD-ROM)
I'm surprised to see any tepid reviews of VS 2005. VS.NET quickly became my favorite when it was introduced in 2002. With this release it continues to improve on the most enjoyable development environment out there. The 2005 edition has added C# generics, C# edit and continue, better intellisense, ClickOnce deployment, SQL Server Express support, and a bunch more.
If you're new to VS.NET, you should check out the Express Edition for the language you're interested in (C#, Visual Basic, C++). The Express Editions will probably suit most of your needs for a trial and are available for free from Microsoft's site. You can install more than one if you need multiple languages. The benefit of getting the Standard or Pro edition is that you get additional functionality like remote debugging, remote datasource capabilities, a single IDE for all languages (making it easier to do mixed managed/unmanaged code), 64-bit compilation and more. The differences should also be reviewed on the Microsoft site before you buy. Bottom line, check it out before buying using the Express Editions. If you're an experienced programmer my guess is you'll probably like what you see.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good IDE but Poor Choice for Older C++ Code,
By tagger9 "tagger9" (New Mexico) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2005 (OLD VERSION) (CD-ROM)
Like other reviewers, I have found that older C and C++ projects (VS2003, VC++6, etc) usually will not work with Visual Studio 2005. You'll get tons of compile errors and warnings, unresolved linker symbols, etc. and you will spend a LOT of time changing your program to make it work, if you can make it work at all. And the import wizard did not help much in this respect.
Also, I found it troubling that there are a lot of nice formatting and Intellisense options for C#, but not for C++. There is some rudimentary formatting and Intellisense functionality for C++, but it is much more limited than what you get for C#. So, one of the nice features of VS is missing for C++. Why? It seems this is the MS way of getting us to use their chosen language, C#. It certainly makes me wonder about the future of C++ at Microsoft. That said, there are still lots of nice features in Visual Studio 2005, and for new C++ projects its not too bad (except for limited formatting and IntelliSense functionality). I could get new projects up and running quickly and painlessly, and I liked the many build/debug features used in VS2005.
22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Definitely better than 2003,
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This review is from: Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2005 (OLD VERSION) (CD-ROM)
There are a lot of things better about 2005 that make it worth the jump from 2003. Most of them you'll just have to use the software yourself to realize, but a few big ones are:
-VASTLY improved intellisense, especially with ASP.NET pages, -New language features with .NET 2.0, -Rather intelligent and visually appealing positioning help in Windows forms, -Improved XML support, -Lots more There are a few things that annoy me, from time to time, such as seemingly random bouts of sitting there for 30-40 seconds, looking like it's hung. The website copy tool, while still something that 2003 didn't have, needs work. Various other little things that need a tad of polishing. Microsoft, HAS, however, promised a service pack, so I'm sure a lot of things will be fixed or enhanced. Overall, I recommend this release as a smart upgrade from 2003 or earlier.
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