Microsoft Corp. laid out its (relatively) long-term plans for Visual Studio .NET last week in events at the VSLive! Conference in San Francisco.
With Bill Gates nowhere in sight, it was left to Eric Rudder, senior VP of developer and platform evangelism, to lay out Microsoft's plans for the soon-to-be-unveiled Visual Studio .NET 2003, and add a preview of the subsequent revision, code-named Whidbey. Visual Studio .NET 2003, expected to ship to beta sites in March, promises improved security capabilities, connections to non-Microsoft data sources (such as Oracle databases), and extensions that will allow developers to utilize the .NET Framework in phones and PDAs, Rudder said.
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