1. Assess your Learn Visual Studio .NET
Then identify job roles and associated
experience and the .NET Framework
.NET technologies for your career path
with at least with the language that’s
and skills development needs.
one of these best for you
(New developers can start directly
environments with these languages)
Microsoft
Web Interface Designer Web Application Developer Enterprise Commerce
Visual Basic
Rapid Application
Developer
.NET (HTML, CSS, Microsoft FrontPage®, Microsoft Office, (ASP.NET, Web Forms, server controls,
Web
Development
Web forms designer) DHTML, XML, XSLT, Web services, XPATH, (Site security, Microsoft
The next level of the
Microsoft Visual Basic®, .NET My Services, )
popular Visual Basic Commerce Server,
Microsoft Office, programming Microsoft BizTalk
Smart Clients
Borland PowerBuilder, language, which
Server, schema mapping,
Borland Delphi brings object-
Mobile Devices
business workflows and
Mobile Application Developer
Mobile Web Interface Developer
oriented features and
pipelines, Visual Studio
implementation
(.NET Compact Framework, Smart Device Extensions,
(ASP.NET, Microsoft Mobile Information Server, .NET Enterprise
inheritance to Visual
Web services, Microsoft Mobile Information Server,
Smart Device Extensions Microsoft Mobile Internet
Basic and provides Developer Edition)
Microsoft SQL Server for Windows CE)
Tookit, WAP, WML, cHTML, Mobile Explorer)
full access to all .NET
Web Application platform features
Development Enterprise
Rich Clients
Windows Collaboration Developer
Windows Application Developer Management
ASP, ECMA Script, Java Enterprise
(Windows)
Developer
Server Pages, Perl Microsoft (Microsoft Exchange Server CDO and Web Store,
(Windows Forms, GDI+, printing, COM/COM+ Solution
Server Pages, Delphi, Visual C# .NET Microsoft FrontPage extensions, Microsoft Visual
interoperability, Visual FoxPro®, ActiveX®, Architect
(Active Directory™, policies,
Enterprise Solutions
IBM WebSphere, Studio for Applications)
interoperability, Web services, .NET My Services) schema extensions, ADSI,
A programming (Enterprise
Macromedia ColdFusion, language that WMI, LDAP, counters, security,
.NET Framework
Microsoft Visual InterDev combines the ease of SMS, MOM, Visual Studio transactional
Visual Basic and the
.NET Enterprise process flow, UML
power and flexibility
Developer Edition) and FORML
of C++, with many
design, .NET
features that make
Enterprise developing solutions
Services and
Components Servers, multi-
Enterprise Component
Application Data Component
Business Component
faster and easier, Portal Component Developer
XML Web
vendor product
Developer
especially for COM+
Development Developer
Developer
Server
integration, Visual
(Web parts, digital dashboards, OWC,
and Web Services
(Web platform security,
Microsoft Foundation Studio .NET
(ADO.NET, SQLXML, XSD
(Serviced components, COM+ Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft
transactions, pooling,
Classes, Enterprise Enterprise
mapping, data binding,
interoperability, IIS and ASP.NET SharePoint™ Portal server,
asynchronous and offline
JavaBeans, UNIX C/C++ Architect Edition)
XSLT, SQL Server)
security, Visual Studio Team Services, Microsoft Content
services, Visual Studio
platforms, distributed for Applications, Passport)
Microsoft Management Server, Passport)
.NET Enterprise Developer
computing environments, Visual C++
Edition)
customer information .NET
and control systems Advances Windows®
development and
Enterprise Database
enables developers
Developer
to build new Data Integration Developer
Data Workflow Designer
Systems powerful .NET (Database security,
(XSLT, DTS, Host Integration Server,
(XML, Microsoft Visio® Design Tools, BizTalk
Development applications or .NET-
distributed databases
BizTalk™ mapping and adapters, XPATH)
orchestration, business process mapping)
enable their existing
Microsoft Windows DNA, and transactions,
applications with
services and drivers, Oracle® and IBM DB2
the C++ language
appliances/embedded integration, Visual Studio
Data Services
Data Access Developer
systems, UNIX daemons, .NET Enterprise
Real-time systems Developer Edition)
(ADO.NET, OLEDB/SQL/ODBC providers, SQLXML,
Database Developer
XSD and database schema mapping)
Other (T-SQL, ANSI SQL, DTS, stored procedures, triggers)
languages GLOSSARY
Other Language that support
MSF: Microsoft Solutions Framework ADSI: Active Directory Service Interfaces
and Script Database Designer
the .NET XSLT: eXtensible Style Sheet Language WMI: Windows Management Instrumentation
Development Framework (E/R Diagrams, normalizing, indexing, Transformations
MOM: Microsoft Operations Manager
APL, Lisp, JScript,® language skills in optimizing, Enterprise Manager Query Optimizer) DTS: Data Transformation Services
cHTML: compact HTML
other popular
COBOL, Perl, OLAP Developer OLAP: Online Analytical Processing
E/R Diagrams: Entity/Relationship Diagrams
languages, such as
Scheme/Tcl, Eiffel,
(OLAP Services, ADOMD, MDX scripting, MDX: Multidimensional eXpressions
COBOL and Perl CDO: Collaboration Data Objects
other third party
business data analysis, T-SQL, DTS) WAP: Wireless Application Protocol
ADOMD: multidimensional ADO
languages
WML: Wireless Markup Language
FORML: Formal Object Role Modeling Language
OWC: Microsoft Office Web Components