
Visual Studio 2005 combined with ASP.NET 2.0 offers an improved environment for publishing and administering a Web site. View larger. |

The new ClickOnce application deployment technology makes deploying a desktop application as easy as deploying a web application. View larger. |

The Solution Explorer now makes it easy for you to clean up unwanted files. View larger. |
With Visual Studio Pro 2005's powerful, enterprise-class application platform, you can also easily create and deploy client applications, and automatically publish and maintain applications and their dependencies with integrated ClickOnce support. With more than 50 new controls and hundreds of built-in services for site security, personalization and look and feel, Visual Studio Pro 2005 gives you the tools it takes to build fast, interactive Web applications. Enhanced visual designers and editors speed up development times significantly, while intuitive visual designers help to improve your XML editing and XSLT debugging. In short, you can tackle just about any development task, whether its creating dynamic, data-driven applications using an integrated data access, design, and reporting environment, or creating robust applications using the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, the .NET Compact Framework 2.0, and native code -- all supported by Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. You can also easily develop for 64-bit systems using a 64-bit version of the .NET Framework.