Technology Challenge
Creating custom applications comes with a set of challenges, including getting teams to deliver higher-quality, dynamic applications and helping to ensure that they adopt and follow common development processes. In the past, organizations have relied on many different tools to provide custom applications—each tool required investments in money and time to set up, manage, and maintain. Lacking integrated tools and reporting on progress of the overall development project, software development teams have had to make do with limited visibility of project status across the organizations. Ultimately, developing custom applications in this kind of environment affects productivity and limits the business agility of an organization.
Solution
With the Microsoft Application Platform, you can break through these software development challenges and help your business advance. Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 offers a single, fully integrated development environment for all types of development, including Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Web, and mobile applications. This means your development team can use their existing skills to create applications to be used throughout your organization. The Microsoft Application Platform can meet the diverse requirements of individual professional developers and development teams.
Microsoft focuses on three major areas in providing the best development platform:
- Delivering a variety of editions tailored to specific needs. For example, Microsoft offers:
- Visual Studio 2005 Standard Editions.
- Visual Studio 2005 Professional Editions.
- Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Microsoft Office System.
- Supporting the most reliable and scalable Web platform with Microsoft Internet Information Services 6.0 and Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0, as featured in the Web Deployment Projects add-in.
- Providing support for the development process from design to deployment with Visual Studio 2005 Team System and .NET Framework integration.