Product Overview
10 Reasons to Adopt Visual J# .NET
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Product Overview

Microsoft Visual J# .NET is the comprehensive tool set for creating XML Web services and Microsoft .NET–connected applications for Microsoft Windows and the Web. This robust development package, which uses the Java-language syntax, offers beginning and intermediate developers with Java-language or C++ experience a modern environment for creating next-generation software. Visual J# .NET delivers superior functionality for streamlining business processes, including:

• Rapid design, development, and deployment support for creating XML Web services.
• Form designers and visual controls for creating rich Windows-based applications.
• Authoring tools and services for building powerful Microsoft .NET server-based solutions.

With Visual J# .NET, developers can build solutions for the broadest range of clients, including Windows, the Web, and thin-client devices. Visual J# .NET provides developers with the opportunity to leverage their existing Java language and C++ skills and knowledge to be successful working with Microsoft .NET-connected technologies and applications.

Visual J# .NET includes technology that enables customers to migrate Java-language investments to the .NET Framework. Existing applications developed with Visual J++ can be easily modified to execute on the .NET Framework, and incorporate new .NET functionality.

• Full integration with Visual Studio .NET. Visual J# .NET provides programming tools support through its integration with the award-winning Visual Studio .NET integrated development environment (IDE). All the features of the IDE are easily accessible to the Visual J# developer.

• Full integration with the .NET Framework. Visual J# .NET is designed to take full advantage of the .NET Framework, including ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Windows Forms, and XML Web services, as well as full cross-language integration.

• Visual J++ 6.0 upgrade tools. Visual J# .NET includes tools to automatically upgrade and convert existing Visual J++ 6.0 projects and solutions to the new Visual Studio .NET format. These tools ensure that an existing Visual J++ 6.0 developer can move easily to Visual J# .NET and produce .NET-connected applications and components.

Microsoft Visual J# .NET is not a tool for developing applications intended to run on a Java virtual machine. Applications and services built with Visual J# .NET will run only in the .NET Framework; they will not run on any Java virtual machine. Visual J# .NET has been independently developed by Microsoft. It is neither endorsed nor approved by Sun Microsystems, Inc.

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Top 10 Reasons to Adopt Visual J# .NET

1. Familiar Language Syntax
   If you are already familiar with the syntax of the Java language, why learn anything else? Microsoft Visual J# .NET can be used by Java-language developers immediately with almost no learning curve.

2. Multi-Language Aware
   Integrate your applications directly with components, services, and classes written in other languages.

3. Object-based Type System
   Visual J# .NET provides developers with a modern and intuitive object-based type system that eliminates the need for complex and error-inducing pointer and template features found in other languages.

4. Access to the Microsoft .NET Framework
   Visual J# .NET provides developers with access to the Microsoft .NET Framework, a robust, thread-safe library of collection classes, networking functionality, data access classes, and more.

5. Interactive XML Web Services
   Visual J# .NET allows developers to deploy and consume rich, interactive XML Web services that reduce development time by enabling software aggregation from any platform.

6. Java Investment Protection
   Visual J# .NET provides a low-cost route to migrate your Java programs and programmers to .NET-connected technologies and applications.

7. Visual Studio .NET IDE
   Visual J# .NET provides developers with the award-winning Visual Studio .NET integrated development environment (IDE), which includes support for Task Lists, Property Editors, Microsoft IntelliSense®, Forms Designers, and much more.

8. Powerful Windows-based Applications
   The new Microsoft Windows® Forms Designer enables developers to get their desktop applications to market in less time. New features include control anchoring and docking to eliminate the need for complex resize code, the in-place menu editor to deliver WYSIWYG menu creation, and the tab order editor to provide rapid application development (RAD) organization of controls.

9. Easy Web-based Application Development
   Using new Web Forms, you can easily build true thin-client Web-based applications that intelligently render on any browser and on any platform. Web Forms deliver a RAD programming experience for the creation of great Web-based applications. The new HTML Designer delivers IntelliSense statement completion for HTML tags and the separation of user interface (UI) and code enable more efficient team-based development.

10. Simple Reliable Deployment
    "No-touch" deployment features make application installation as easy as copying software onto the disk drives of client machines or to the servers in your data center. New applications won't interfere with existing applications. Rich Windows interfaces, once an operational problem, can now be easily installed and serviced using the new Windows Forms technology.

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Useful Links

Microsoft Visual J# HomePage http://msdn.microsoft.com/vjsharp/default.asp

Overview from a Java viewpoint (Java World) http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-09-2002/jw-0906-jsharp.html

J# Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) http://msdn.microsoft.com/vjsharp/productinfo/faq/default.asp

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