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Microsoft Visual J# .NET Beta 1 Officially Released

Time: 14:40 EST/19:40 GMT | News Source: ActiveWin.com | Posted By: Robert Stein

Thanks Thomas and Louis. This is the official release of the link we provided to you first this past Sunday.

Visual J#� .NET is a development tool for Java-language developers who want to build applications and services on the .NET Framework. Visual J# .NET joins more than 20 previously announced languages with its ability to target the .NET Framework and first-class XML Web services. Visual J# .NET provides the easiest transition for Java developers into the world of XML Web services and dramatically improves the interoperability of Java-language programs with existing software written in a variety of other programming languages. Visual J# .NET enables Microsoft Visual J++ customers and other Java-language programmers to take advantage of existing investments in skills and code while fully exploiting the Microsoft platform today and into the future.

Visual J# .NET includes technology that enables customers to migrate Java-language investments to the .NET Framework. Existing applications developed with Visual J++ can be easily modified to execute on the .NET Framework, interoperate with other .NET-based languages and applications, and incorporate new .NET functionality such as ASP.NET, ADO.NET, and Windows Forms. Further, developers can use it to create entirely new .NET-based applications. Visual J# .NET provides:

Full integration with Visual Studio� .NET. Visual J# .NET provides programming tools support through its integration with the award-winning Visual Studio .NET integrated development environment (IDE). All the features of the IDE are easily accessible to the Visual J# developer.
Full integration with the .NET Framework. Visual J# .NET is designed to take full advantage of the .NET Framework, including ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Windows Forms, and XML Web services, as well as full cross-language integration.
Visual J++ 6.0 upgrade tools. Visual J# .NET includes tools to automatically upgrade and convert existing Visual J++ 6.0 projects and solutions to the new
Visual Studio .NET format. These tools ensure that an existing Visual J++ 6.0 developer can easily move to Visual J# .NET and produce .NET-based applications and components.

There is now a new newsgroup for Visual J#: microsoft.public.dotnet.vjsharp
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Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Beta 2 (build 7.0.9254.0) English (US) version Required
Windows 2000 Server or Professional, or Windows XP Professional RC Release Required