Features in all three versions:

• XML Web services
  Expose any component as an XML Web service by using the WebMethod keyword. Use XML Web services from any platform.
• Windows Forms
  New shared Windows Forms Designer, Form Inheritance, and control anchoring and docking enable you to build Microsoft Windows®–based applications quickly.
• Web Forms
  A shared Web page editor enables developers to create Internet applications using the same "drag-and-drop, double-click to write code" technique that made Microsoft Visual Basic® famous. Code can be written with any language, including Visual Basic .NET and Microsoft Visual C#™ .NET.
• Mobile Web Forms
  Create applications for mobile Web browsers that render on any device.
• Pocket PC and Windows CE .NET–based applications
  Build rich applications for smart devices such as the Pocket PC, targeting the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework, a rich subset of the Microsoft .NET Framework for mobile solutions.
• .NET Framework and the Common Language Runtime
  Built for the Web, the .NET Framework provides an agile, scalable environment for building, deploying, and running distributed XML Web services and applications.
• Visual Basic .NET Upgrade Wizard
  Seamlessly upgrade code and applications from Visual Basic 6.0 with tools and guidance.
• Visual Basic .NET
  Visual Basic .NET enables full object-oriented programming with implementation inheritance, structured exception handling, and free-threading.
• Visual C# .NET
  Visual C# .NET, a new object-oriented programming language, combines the power of C and C++ with the functional ease of modern, rapid application development (RAD) tools.
• Visual C++ .NET
  Microsoft Visual C++® .NET enables developers to build managed and unmanaged applications, using the .NET Framework, Active Template Library (ATL) Server, and Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC).
• Visual J# .NET
  Microsoft Visual J#™ .NET is a development tool for Java-language developers who want to build applications and services on the .NET Framework.
• Built-in support for additional programming languages
  With support for multiple programming languages, you can easily program in the language of your choice and integrate the code from any other language.
• Shared Visual Studio .NET integrated development environment (IDE)
  Leverage a tightly integrated visual development environment for all languages that include a single Toolbox, Task List, and Debugger.
• RAD for the server
  Access and integrate server administration tools, event logs, databases, and XML Web services. Server Explorer and tools incorporate server-side application components.
• Visual Studio .NET Debugger
  Shorten the development cycle with cross-language, cross-process, and remote debugging.
• Dynamic Help
  Instantly access help that is relevant to the current development task.
• Task List
  Organize the development process by annotating code and by monitoring and quickly accessing errors and warnings.
• HTML Designer
  Develop HTML, ASP, and Microsoft ASP.NET Web Forms graphically without delving into HTML or script.
• Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE 2000)
  Build applications that are fully compatible with SQL Server and migrate them directly to SQL Server without changing a single line of code.
• Visual Database Tools
  Design stored procedures, indexes, tables, triggers, user-defined functions, and other database elements visually. In the Visual Studio .NET Professional Edition, these design capabilities are limited to the SQL Server Desktop Engine.
• XML Designer
  Use drag-and-drop tools for working with XML and XSD files.

Features in Enterprise Architect and Enterprise Developer:

• Enterprise templates and frameworks
  Take advantage of application templates to jump-start development and access best practices with the XML-based Template Description Language.
• Microsoft .NET–based reference applications
  Learn how to design and structure .NET-based applications with end-to-end reference applications, including design documents, models, and code.
• Visual Studio Analyzer
  Locate performance bottlenecks visually in distributed COM applications.
• Microsoft Visual SourceSafe® 6.0c
  Provide a collaborative, team development environment with version control for source code, components, applications, and design documents.
• Application Center Test
  Perform functional, performance, and load testing of XML Web services and applications. Easily automate tests to run regression tests.
• Microsoft SQL Server™ 2000
  Use the complete database and analysis offering to rapidly deliver the next generation of scalable e-commerce, line-of-business, and data warehousing solutions.

Features in Enterprise Architect Only:

• Visio-based UML application modeling
  Model application architecture and functionality visually, and clearly communicate requirements with the development team.
• Enterprise template project type
  Share best practices and provide architectural guidance across the development team with the new Enterprise template project type.
• Microsoft Visio®–based database modeling
  Capture and communicate business requirements clearly with conceptual, logical, and physical database modeling tools.