After gathering feedback from customers and industry partners alike, Microsoft has improved renamed its Visual Studio Integration Partner (VSIP) program by providing easier access to Microsoft Visual Studio integration technology and expanding its co-marketing program to better serve the needs of tools software vendors and enterprise customers. Renamed as the Visual Studio Industry Partner program, VSIP is a worldwide technology and marketing program that offers extensibility capabilities -- through the VSIP Software Development Kit (SDK) -- that allow industry partners to deeply integrate development tools, programming languages and components with Visual Studio .NET, and provide their customers with a seamless development experience. The revamped program now offers three tiers of membership to better accommodate the diverse needs of the Visual Studio developer ecosystem.
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