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When it comes to custom Industrial Software development, lets face it, you have a LOT of options available…
- Which programming language do you want to use
- Which development environment (IDE) do you want to create your applications with
- What kind of application(s) you want to create? Do you go for Windows Forms, Web Pages, Web Services, Mobile applications or even use a Scripting language for producing Shell-scripts, or some/all of the above?
- Once you’ve created your masterpiece, how do you test it? How do you maintain and deploy it?
With this large number of questions there is, thankfully, one easy answer …
Visual Studio .NET 2005/2008
This single tool answers the afore-mentioned questions:
- Multiple development languages are supported: VB6, VB.NET, C#, C++, J#, Scripting
- Multiple platforms supported: Winforms, WebForms, Services, Mobile, Console, Scripts
- Advanced debugging capabilities and unit-testing features built into the development environment
- ClickOnce deployment, otherwise known as SmartClient technology makes deployment easy
If you’re interested in creating Industrial Software, then this document will discuss the top 10 benefits as to why you should seriously consider building it with Visual Studio .NET.
This paper is intended for developers, and software designers; basically, anybody who will be involved throughout the software development process.
Reason #1 - Visual Studio.NET Express is FREE!
When is FREE software ever bad? Only when that software is of no value or when there is no support for it!
But Visual Studio.NET is an invaluable asset that is worthy of any programmers toolbox.
Equipped with all the bells and whistles of a fully-fledged development environment you can download the version that best fits your needs, be it VB.NET, C# or just for web-development.
Speaking of “Free” - Click to Download this FREE Paper and learn about the other 9 reasons to use .NET for your development!
Also available are our webcasts on .NET machine interface development and on .NET OPC Development.
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