The Visual Studio Enterprise Edition has it all. With it, you can more quickly build mission-critical enterprise solutions. For more information on enterprise development with Visual Studio, and the editions in which each language tool is available, please use the following links.
| Topic | Description |
| Developing for the Enterprise | Introduces Visual Studio's enterprise development guide, with sections on architectural and data access design. |
| Visual Basic Enterprise Edition Features | Lists new and enhanced Visual Basic enterprise features, with links to more information. |
| What's Included in the Visual C++ Enterprise Edition? | Lists Visual C++ enterprise features, providing links to more information about each. |
| Introducing Visual InterDev | Provides an introduction to the main feature areas of Visual InterDev and links to more detailed information. |
| Visual J++ Start Page | Introduces the Visual J++ documentation. |
The Visual Studio Enterprise Edition includes all of the features available with the Visual Studio development tools. When installing the Visual Studio Enterprise Edition, you can elect to install enterprise features for use with these tools. In addition, Visual Basic and Visual C++ are available in separate enterprise editions.
The following table indicates whether a given feature is available with a given tool. If you acquired a separate enterprise edition of Visual Basic or Visual C++, you can use this table also to identify which of the Visual Studio enterprise features you received with your purchase. (Visual J++ and Visual InterDev are not offered as separate enterprise editions.) In addition, some of these features are available in professional editions with a subset of their enterprise edition functionality.
The following list of features is followed by descriptions and a suggested place to start for more detailed information on the feature.
| Feature Name | Visual Basic | Visual C++ | Visual FoxPro | Visual InterDev | Visual J++ |
| Application Performance Explorer | VB | VFP | VJ++ | ||
| COM Transaction Integrator for CICS and IMS | VB | VC++ | |||
| Data Environment Designer | VB | ||||
| Data Object Wizard | VB | ||||
| Database Designer | VB | VC++ | VFP | VID | VJ++ |
| Deployment | VB | VFP | VID | VJ++ | |
| Internet Information Server 4.0 | VB | VFP | VID | VJ++ | |
| Microsoft Transaction Server 2.0 | VB | VC++ | VFP | VID | VJ++ |
| New Database Wizard | VB | VC++ | VJ++ | ||
| OLE DB Provider for AS/400 and VSAM Data | VB | VC++ | |||
| Posting Acceptor | VB | VJ++ | |||
| Query Designer | VB | VC++ | VFP | VID | VJ++ |
| RDO User Connection Designer | VB | ||||
| RemoteData Control | VB | VC++ | |||
| SNA Server 4.0 | VB | VC++ | |||
| SQL Debugging* | VB | VC++ | VFP | VID | VJ++ |
| SQL Server 6.5 | VB | VC++ | VFP | VID | VJ++ |
| Stored Procedure Editor* | VB | VC++ | VFP | VID | VJ++ |
| Stored Procedures as Project Items | VB | VFP | VID | VJ++ | |
| Table Design | VB | VC++ | VFP | VID | VJ++ |
| Trigger Editor* | VB | VC++ | VFP | VID | VJ++ |
| View Designer | VB | VC++ | VFP | VID | VJ++ |
| Visual Component Manager | VB | VC++ | VID | VJ++ | |
| Visual Modeler | VB | VC++ | |||
| Visual SourceSafe | VB | VC++ | VFP | VJ++ | |
| Visual Studio Analyzer | VJ++ | ||||
| Webclasses | VB |
* Feature may differ between development tools.
| Feature Name | For More Information Online |
| Application Performance Explorer (APE) A tool to test the run-time performance and resource load characteristics of distributed application design scenarios you are considering. | Application Performance Explorer Reference (Visual Studio) |
| COM Transaction Integrator for CICS and IMS A generic proxy that handles communications between the Windows NT platform and mainframe computers. | COMTI Is a Proxy for the Mainframe (Visual Studio) |
| Data Environment Designer An interactive, design-time environment for creating programmatic run-time data access. | Using the Data Environment Designer |
| Data Object Wizard A wizard through which you can generate code to create custom data sources and User Controls to display and manipulate data through stored procedures. | Data Object Wizard (Visual Basic) |
| Database Designer A tool to graphically represent tables and their relationships, and through which you can create and modify the database objects that your application relies on. | Database Designer (Visual Studio) |
| Deployment A Microsoft development environment feature through which you can distribute and debug the components of your Web applications. | Solution Deployment Reference (Visual Studio) |
| Internet Information Server 4.0 A complete FTP, Gopher, and World Wide Web information service specifically designed to run on Microsoft Windows NT and within the BackOffice environment. | Internet Information Server |
| Microsoft Transaction Server 2.0 A component-based transaction processing system for developing, deploying, and managing high-performance, scalable, and robust enterprise, Internet, and intranet server applications. | Getting Started with Microsoft Transaction Server |
| OLE DB Provider for AS/400 and VSAM Data A provider is a COM component with an OLE DB-compliant interface. This provider enables access to the IBM Distributed Data Management (DDM) architecture. | Accessing VSAM and AS/400 Files (Visual Studio) |
| Posting Acceptor 2.0 A tool that enables Microsoft Internet Information Server to accept Web content from Web Publishing Wizard and other clients via HTTP Post. | Configuring an IIS Server to Be a Deployment Target (Visual Studio) |
| Query Designer A tool for creating SQL commands using a simple, intuitive visual interface. | Query Designer (Visual Studio) |
| RDO User Connection Designer A tool using Visual Basic ActiveX designer architecture to provide design-time support for programmatic data access. | The UserConnection Designer (Visual Basic) |
| RemoteData Control An ActiveX control that provides access to data stored in a remote ODBC data source through bound controls. | Using the RemoteData Control (Visual Basic) |
| SNA Server 4.0 A tool that provides a gateway connection between personal computer local area networks (LANs) or wide area networks (WANs), along with IBM mainframe and AS/400 hosts. | What Is SNA Server? (Visual Studio) |
| SQL Debugging Features through which you can debug Microsoft SQL Server stored procedures and triggers in much the same way that you debug other kinds of scripts or programs. | Working with SQL Server Databases (Visual Studio) Debugging SQL (Visual C++) The T-SQL Debugger (Visual Basic) |
| SQL Server 6.5 A server that provides tools for enterprise-wide administration, data replication, parallel DBMS performance, and scalability to very large databases. | Introduction (Microsoft SQL Server Programmer's Toolkit) |
| Stored Procedures as Project Items With Microsoftฎ Visual Database Tools, you can create and manipulate stored procedures within the development environment. | Stored Procedures (Visual Studio) Working with Stored Procedures in Data View (Visual Studio) Creating an Extended Stored Procedure (Visual C++) Stored Procedures in the SQL Editor (Visual Basic) |
| Table Design With Microsoft Visual Database Tools, you can create tables, change the table view, adjust table size, duplicate tables, and add columns to tables. | Tables (Visual Studio) |
| Trigger Editor With Microsoft Visual Database Tools, you can create, open, copy, and delete triggers in your database. | Working with Triggers in Data View (Visual Studio) Triggers in the SQL Editor (Visual Basic) |
| View Designer With Microsoft Visual Database Tools, you can create a view, which is a virtual table generated by a query. | Creating Views with the View Designer (Visual Studio) |
| Visual Component Manager A tool with which to organize, find, and insert components into a Visual Studio project, addressing three requirements for storing and organizing components: publishing, finding, and reusing them. | Visual Component Manager Reference (Visual Studio) |
| Visual Modeler A tool for designing three-tier distributed applications using class and component diagrams. With Visual Modeler you can visually design models of the classes and components your application needs, then convert these models to Visual Basic or Visual C++ code. | Visual Modeler Reference (Visual Studio) |
| Visual SourceSafe A source control tool with which you can manage your projects, regardless of the file type (text files, graphics files, binary files, sound files, or video files) by saving them to a database. | Visual SourceSafe Start Page (Visual SourceSafe) |
| Visual Studio Analyzer A tool for evaluating, analyzing, and debugging the structure, performance, and interactions of a distributed application from an application perspective, rather than a component or code perspective. | Visual Studio Analyzer Reference (Visual Studio) |
| Webclasses A Visual Basic component that resides on a Web server and responds to input from the browser. When you create an IIS application, you create its webclasses using the Webclass Designer. | An Introduction to Webclasses (Visual Basic) |