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Vendors Roll Out Support for
VS.NET 2003
In anticipation of the next release of Visual Studio .NET, exhibitors at VSLive! showed off their new releases.
by Elise M. Peterson

VSLive! San Francisco, February 13, 2003

On Tuesday, Microsoft's Eric Rudder gave a sneak preview of the new features you can look forward to in the next release of Visual Studio .NET (VS.NET). Attendees got to see IntelliSense improvements, better migration tools for VB6 code, and an integrated wizard and code snippet converter to help you take existing VB6 control projects and reuse them in a .NET project. In the VSLive! exhibit hall, vendors are taking advantage of the excitement around these announcements to show off their new and enhanced products with support for VS.NET 2003. You'll start to see more and more products integrated into the VS.NET IDE.

For those of you unable to make it to the show to see demos of the new products, I'll give you an overview. I'll start with the products that will provide support for VS.NET and then cover other important announcements.

ComponentOne is offering five Web Forms components for VS.NET 2003: ComponentOne WebGrid for ASP.NET, ComponentOne WebReports for ASP.NET, ComponentOne WebChart for ASP.NET, ComponentOne WebDataObjects for ASP.NET, ComponentOne WebMenus and WebBars for ASP.NET, and ComponentOne PayPal eCommerce. You can purchase them individually for $399.95 or as part of two subscription packages, ComponentOne Studio for ASP.NET or ComponentOne Studio Enterprise. The company also announced that its complete line of Windows Forms components will support VS.NET 2003.

Data Dynamics has updated ActiveReports for .NET to include support for VS.NET 2003. The product offers a managed implementation of the ActiveReports engine and report viewer and provides code integration with the VS.NET environment. Developers can use the Visual Studio editor to write code in C# or VB.NET behind their reports. The product also includes export filters for Adobe PDF, Microsoft Excel, RTF, HTML, text, and TIFF images, as well as an ASP.NET server control to help you set up Web client viewer options. The WinForms viewer control offers split and multipage views, text searches, table of contents, and a customizable toolbar.