Newsreel - Visual Studio. The Magazine Subscribe Contact Us Visual Studio. NET Beta 1 released 27 Nov 2000 - Microsoft has released the first beta of Visual Studio. NET the next version of its flagship development suite and the first to target its .NET initiative.
NET represents a major re-think.
Where Visual Studio 6.0 allows you to build applications around Windows, COM and Internet Explorer, Visual Studio. NET firmly targets the forthcoming .NET Framework. Where Visual Studio 6.0 presents a loosely linked environment for developing applications using just the supplied languages, Visual Studio. NET gives you a single development environment that presents the same user interface and the same toolset not only across the languages that come in the box but across any that third parties decide to integrate into the suite. The languages supplied have changed, too.