Microsoft releases product for .net platform

HYDERABAD: Microsoft has announced the launch of its beta version of

Microsoft Visual J# for .Net platform. It is part of the Microsoft India

development center’s product initiative for the .Net platform and it is

designed to enable Java language programmers to immediately migrate to the .Net

platform.

"The product improves the interoperability of Java-based programs with

software written in a variety of other programming languages," said, Srini

Koppolu, MD for the company’s R&D facility in Hyderabad. He also added

that more than 35 engineers had been working on the development of the product

for the past two years. This is the second product developed and conceived by

the company’s R&D facility situated in Hyderabad. The first product

released was Services For Unix(SFU).

Visual J# .Net is fully integrated with Visual Studio .Net integrated

developed environment and it offers support to XML-based web services. It has

full access to the .Net framework including the ASP.NET, ADO.NET and windows

forms. The product has also integrated more than 20 other languages. The beta 1

version of the product is already made available through MSDN. However, the

company is yet to announce the pricing of the product. The beta 2 version is

likely to be ready by the first quarter of the next year and a final release is

likely by mid next year.

Existing applications developed with Visual J++ can be easily modified to

execute the .NET framework, inter-operate other .NET languages and applications.

The Microsoft development center in Hyderabad is also working on an add-on for

Outlook Express, which is likely to be released next year.