Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition is a comprehensive set of tools that accelerates the process of turning the developer's vision into reality. Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition was engineered to support development projects that target the Web (including ASP.NET AJAX), Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, The 2007 Microsoft Office system, SQL Server 2008, and Windows Mobile devices.

Provides the integrated toolset for addressing all of these needs by providing a superset of the functionality available in Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition.

Connect to the data you need, regardless of its location, and build data driven applications using Language Integrated Query (LINQ).

Build rich, interactive applications using the ASP.NET AJAX interactive Web interfaces.

Create Web applications more easily with an improved design surface and standards support.

Integrated designers and language features in Visual Studio allow developers to build the connected applications demanded by today's businesses while taking advantage of the .NET Framework 3.5 to reduce development time.

Develop compelling solutions that leverage the user experience and capabilities of the 2007 Microsoft Office system and Windows Vista.

Build applications that utilize the latest Web technologies with improved support for AJAX and Web Controls and the Microsoft AJAX Library.

Utilize data from any data source more smoothly with LINQ, a set of language extensions to Visual Basic and Visual C#.