Microsoft offers organizations a robust, end-to-end platform for building, hosting, and exposing applications over the Web. Beyond the secure, reliable, and extensible infrastructure of IIS, developers can easily create Web applications with more interactive, responsive, and efficient client-side execution by using the seamless integration and familiar programming model of ASP.NET AJAX along with Internet Explorer browser extensions and enhancements.
Teams targeting the Web can collaborate more effectively and obtain faster results by integrating the advanced designers and editors of the new Expression tools into their development workflow, and by incorporating the broad functionality of Windows Live services into their solutions.
Visual Studio enables the creation of new Web experiences by empowering Web developers and simplifying Web development. Visual Studio 2008 gives developers the tools they need to build the next generation of Web experiences more quickly, efficiently, and easily than ever before:
· Enabling Web developers to program "AJAX-style" interactive Web user interfaces
o Visual Studio provides developers with all the tools and framework support required to create compelling, expressive, AJAX-enabled Web applications. Developers will be able to take advantage of these rich, client-side and server-side, frameworks to easily build client-centric Web applications that integrate with any back-end data provider, run within any modern browser, and have complete access to ASP.NET application services and the Microsoft platform.
· Designing and implementing a Web service
o As the concept of a Web service evolves, Visual Studio will enable developers to configure service endpoints, using the same tools and code, regardless of what wire protocol (HTTP, TCP/IP) is used, to transmit messages and test the service without code. Developers and partners will be able to extend the underlying protocols to handle any definition of a Web service.
· Easily consume Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services
o Developers can use RAD tools to quickly and easily create client connections and proxies to existing services, and test them without needing to write code. In addition, developers can use the same techniques and tools for consuming WCF services, no matter where they are located.
· Service Implementation integrated with workflow design
o Visual Studio enables the developer to orchestrate behavior across services with Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) to visualize, create, edit, and debug workflow tasks and dependencies.
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