Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition is a
comprehensive, high productivity professional development environment (for devs
working alone or in small teams) for building high performance, multi-tier
applications for Windows, the Web, and mobile devices.
- Create multi-tier Windows, Web, SmartPhone, and Pocket PC based
applications
- Integrated Visual Database Tools for designing databases, tables, stored
procedures, and more
- Integrated database report designer and viewer
- Design, debug, and deploy multi-tier applications
- Integrated XSLT debugging
Microsoft Open License is a
software volume licensing program designed for corporate customers who order as
few as five licenses.