Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0
The .NET Framework 2.0 is Microsoft’s managed code programming model and runtime for building applications on the Windows platform. Visual Studio is the professional development environment for building these applications. Together, Visual Studio and the .NET Framework 2.0 are designed to improve developer productivity and increase application reliability and security by providing a fully managed application environment.
The .NET Framework provides Web services support that enables the more than 3.5 million .NET developers to develop, discover, debug, deploy, and consume Web services using any of the more than 20 programming languages supported on .NET. Furthermore, the .NET Framework supports WS-I Basic Profile for cross-platform interoperability. This allows .NET applications to consume and expose Web services that interoperate with virtually any application, regardless of programming language or platform.