Visual Studio .NET 2003 Professional Edition enables you to rapidly build a broad range of applications for Microsoft Windows, the Web, and mobile devices. Built to address today's most challenging software development needs, Visual Studio .NET 2003 enhances, further refines, and is highly compatible with its predecessor.  With Visual Studio .NET 2003, developers can deliver a range of professional software in record time. The integrated development environment (IDE) provides a consistent interface for all languages, including Microsoft Visual Basic .NET, Microsoft Visual C++ .NET, Microsoft Visual C# .NET, and Microsoft Visual J .NET. Using the language best suited to your skill set, you can take advantage of shared visual designers to build rich Windows-based applications and dynamic Web applications that render in any browser.

Visual Studio .NET 2003 contains an updated version of the .NET Framework, version 1.1, that builds on the previous version with new capabilities and improved scalability, reliability, security, and performance. These core enhancements in the underlying development framework combine with improved IDE responsiveness to enable reduced costs associated with application development, deployment, and maintenance.

Addressing the emerging opportunities represented by XML Web services and mobile application development were key design goals of Visual Studio .NET 2003. Using the skills you already have, Visual Studio .NET 2003 enables you to create and consume Web services and provides intuitive designers for rapidly building broad-reach Mobile Web applications as well as smart device software.