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This book is intended for developers whose primary development tool is either Microsoft® Visual Basic® or Microsoft® Visual C++®, but who are interested in learning about the other tools in the Visual Studio suite. This book provides a synthesis of material that is distributed throughout the MSDN library. Managers and those who evaluate tools might also find this book of interest.

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This book provides overviews of the tools in the Professional Edition of the Visual Studio suite. You can read either general information about the tools or more specific information about the way the tools support fast development, Web applications, and data-centric applications.