Visual Studio® .NET 2003 Professional Special Edition enables developers to quickly create data-driven Web applications using familiar Visual Basic® Special techniques and dozens of reusable Web controls. Web applications built Edition using Visual Studio .NET and ASP.NET benefit from the improved reliability, security, and scalability of .NET.
Microsoft® Visual Studio .NET 2003 Professional Special Edition delivers all the productivity of Visual Studio .NET 2003 Professional plus:
* • Windows Server™ 2003 Standard Edition
* • SQL Server™ 2000 Developer Edition Additional features in the Special Edition include: • Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System Rapidly build .NET Framework–based applications that target Word 2003 and Excel 2003. • Microsoft Learning E-books and Certification Exam Vouchers Speed your transition to .NET Framework development. • ASP.NET Hosting Offers Communicate these key benefits Host Web applications built with Visual Studio .NET 2003. to your developer customers
Quickly build dynamic Web applications Visual Studio .NET 2003 brings the produc- Visual Studio .NET Visual Studio.NET Visual Studio .NET Compare the three versions of Professional Enterprise Enterprise tivity of Visual Basic–style development to Visual Studio .NET 2003: feature by feature Special Edition Developer Architect the Web to assist developers in creating dynamic, data-driven Web applications, and Build Windows®-based, Web, and Web services. Now developers can visually mobile device applications, and Web services design ASP.NET Web Forms using familiar Includes all four programming languages: drag-and-drop techniques, and enjoy code Visual Basic .NET, Visual C#® .NET, support including IntelliSense® statement Visual C++® .NET, and Visual J#® .NET completion and color-coding. Control Library templates/RAD for the Server Cross-language, cross-process, and remote Increase your productivity across all debugging Crystal Reports/Visual Database Tools application types Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition and Visual Studio .NET 2003 is the most pro- SQL Server 2000 Developer Edition ductive tool for building Windows®-based, (development and test versions) Web, and mobile device applications and Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, Web services. The Special Edition now adds SQL Server 2000, Exchange Server 2000, server software and Microsoft Visual Studio Commerce Server 2002, Host Integration Server 2000, Tools for the Microsoft Office System to Windows 2000 Advanced Server further increase developer productivity. (development and test versions)
Visual SourceSafe® 6.0d Improve application performance Enterprise Lifecycle Tools/Use Enterprise Templates Visual Studio .NET 2003 delivers increased performance, scalability, and reliability. Visio®-based database modeling The Special Edition contains tools that Creation of Enterprise Templates developers need to develop, debug, and test applications that are significantly Microsoft BizTalk® Server faster and much more scalable than those created using Visual Basic 6.0 and ASP.
* licensed for development and test. Visual Studio .NET 2003 Professional Special Edition ERP has been reduced from $1079 to $799. The upgrade price remains the same at $549.
SKU Chart: Visual Studio .NET Products Version Retail Part No. ERP Visual Studio .NET Professional Special Edition Standard 659-01567 $799 Upgrade* 659-01576 $549 Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect 2003 Standard G77-00204 $2,499 Upgrade* G77-00205 $1,799 Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Developer 2003 Standard 628-01041 $1,799 Upgrade* 628-01042 $1,079 Visual Basic .NET Standard 2003 Standard 046-00856 $109 Visual C++ .NET Standard 2003 Standard 254-00257 $109 Visual C# .NET Standard 2003 Standard G78-00077 $109 Visual J# Standard 2003 Standard L52-00001 $109
*Many of your customers will be eligible for the upgrade pricing – please see the product list below. Upgrade pricing is for licensed customers of one of the following products (evaluation and trial editions do not qualify): Microsoft products: Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Professional, Enterprise Developer, or Enterprise Architect Version 2002; Visual Studio Professional or Enterprise Edition 97 or later; Microsoft Visual Basic Professional or Enterprise Edition version 5.0 or later; Microsoft Visual C++® Professional or Enterprise Edition version 5.0 or later; Microsoft Visual FoxPro® Professional Edition version 5.0 or later; Microsoft Visual InterDev® Professional Edition version 1.0 or later; Microsoft Visual J++® Professional Edition version 1.1 or later; Microsoft Visual SourceSafe® version 5.0 or later; Microsoft Visual Basic .NET Standard Edition Version 2002 or later; Microsoft Visual C++ .NET Standard Edition Version 2002 or later; Microsoft Visual C# .NET Standard Edition Version 2002 or later; Microsoft Visual J# .NET Standard Edition Version 2002 or later. Competitive products: IBM VisualAge; IBM WebSphere Studio; BEA WebLogic Workshop; Oracle Developer Suite; Oracle JDeveloper; Borland C++Builder; Borland Enterprise Studio; Borland JBuilder; Borland Delphi; Borland Kylix; WebGain Studio; WebGain VisualCafé; TogetherSoft Together ControlCenter; Sun ONE Studio; Macromedia Studio; Macromedia Dreamweaver; Macromedia Flash; IntelliJ IDEA; Intel C++; Metrowerks CodeWarrior.
Up-Sell to MSDN® Subscriptions MSDN Subscriptions—Key Benefits to communicate to Developers Each version of Visual Studio .NET has a corresponding MSDN Subscribers are the first to receive the new releases of all the MSDN Subscription: products within their subscription level. For the contents of each sub- scription level, see the chart, and get more detailed information at Visual Studio .NET 2003 MSDN Subscriptions http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/buy/choose/. In addition One-Time License, No SA L+SA or SA developers receive the following benefits: MSDN Universal Developer Benefits Visual Studio .NET 2003 Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect, Enterprise Architect SDKs, DDKs, all Microsoft OS platforms, MSDN Subscriber Downloads Instant access to download software when you need it. all major server platforms, Office, Visio, Project, and MSDN Library Regular media shipment For occasions when online access is an issue—you always have a complete set of disks (CD or DVD) with the code MSDN Enterprise and resources you need. Visual Studio .NET 2003 Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Developer, Enterprise Developer SDKs, DDKs, all Microsoft OS platforms, Priority access to products Get access to new products before they are widely core server platforms, and MSDN as they release available. Be the first to use. Library Public betas Access betas so that you can prepare for development MSDN Professional on new platform and server technologies prior to their Visual Studio .NET 2003 Visual Studio .NET Professional, SDKs, release. Professional DDKs, all Microsoft OS platforms, and MSDN Library Professional Support MSDN Subscriptions come with complimentary Incidents professional support incidents. A $250 value per incident. Universal comes with four incidents ($1000 of support). MSDN Subscribers are in the first group to receive new versions of Enterprise 3, and Professional and OS 2 incidents. Visual Studio and a host of other Microsoft technologies and MSDN Managed Newsgroups Post a question in an MSDN newsgroup and receive a resources. MSDN Universal offers the most comprehensive develop- response in two business days. ment solution for enterprise developers. MSDN Enterprise and MSDN Professional also deliver Visual Studio .NET 2003. Also available are MSDN Operating Systems and Library.
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