Three years after the launch of Visual Studio® .NET, S. Somasegar, corporate vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft Corp., highlighted vast customer, partner and academic adoption of Microsoft® .NET to build connected systems, Web services and smart-client applications using Microsoft's development tools. In his keynote address at Fawcette Technical Publications' VSLive! San Francisco 2005, Somasegar also unveiled new resources for enterprise developers, announced Microsoft's expanded partnership with Visual Studio Industry Partners (VSIPs) Micro Focus International Ltd. and LogicLibrary Inc., and highlighted the success of .NET customer American Healthways Inc. Somasegar also announced the upcoming availability of the second community technology preview (CTP) of Microsoft's presentation subsystem code-named "Avalon," slated for release in March 2005. This CTP introduces several advances including new controls, improvements to the layout system, performance improvements and enhanced XAML support.
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