Microsoft Corp. today unveiled the development tools to guide enterprise customers into the new era of XML Web services. Microsoft Visual Studio.NET Enterprise Architect (VSEA) is a new tool for architects, and Visual Studio.NET Enterprise Developer (VSED) is a new version of the popular Visual Studio Enterprise Edition development system. The new versions include a series of powerful features that facilitate migration of development teams to the next generation of Web-based computing. VSEA and VSED will enable companies to leverage proven enterprise life-cycle design methods to efficiently build XML Web services, applications made available over the Web via Internet-standard XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI, on the .NET platform. In addition, the new versions will provide architects and developers with core reference applications, modeling features and testing capabilities to deliver improved results. This also builds on the Visual Studio.NET Open Tools Platform for third-party independent software vendors (ISVs) that want to plug directly into the Visual Studio.NET development environment.

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