Microsoft's research and development capability is indeed very strong, and the eyes are also very long. When the Visual Studio .NET 2002 is released, it has begun to plan the three versions of the development plan, until now, Visual Studio.net 2003 (Development code: Everett) It has been officially released, the next version Visual Studio.net 2005 (development code: whidbey) has also entered the beta1 test.
See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/ProductInfo/roadMap.aspx
