On May 22, 2003, Microsoft launched three enterprise-class products: Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Visual Studio.Net 2003 and SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition 64-bit. Visual Studio .NET 2003 is a second-generation development tool for Microsoft to build and deploy Microsoft .NET software. On this new platform, it includes development tools such as Visual C , Visual Basic and Visual C #.
Visual C .NET includes many new features such as web applications, hosted C extensions, ATL, DCOM, MFC, and support for ATL Server, Windows .NET Framework.
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