Microsoft launched VisualStudio.NET at the GeneXus Meeting

At the GeneXus International Meeting, Microsoft offered Beta 2 versions of Visual Studio.NET to users, in order for developers to have tools to work on the NET Platform; likewise it offered three technical sessions on SQL Server 2000, BizTalk Server 2000, and .NET Framework
In addition to this, more than fifteen development companies showed the result of their research and development on .NET, at a stand called "Zona .NET".
About Visual Studio.NET

Visual Studio.NET provides key technologies in order to simplify the creation, distribution, and evolution of safe, scalable, and high-availability Web applications and services, while profiting from developers skills and knowledge.
The aim is to allow developers to create scalable and reliable Web applications more quickly by using current tools. That is why the Visual Studio®.NET approach lies in significantly simplifying the development of business-related Web solutions. By offering an increase in productivity, Web development capacity, and scalable and reusable server components, Visual Studio helps companies to spot, more effectively, the needs of a specific niche in a competitive and ever-changing market.
Visual Studio.NET incorporates many important features: some are improvements to previous versions, others are new versions. Some of the more significant novelties are: a new and integral development environment, the new Microsoft C# programming language, and new features oriented to objects in Visual Basic. NET.
The new Visual Studio .NET features contribute to the creation of a total development environment of the .NET Framework, the next generation of Microsoft's applications development platform.