•Strengths
–Visual Studio enhances productivity
–Shortest time to market
•faster to develop, lower cost
–Fairly stable (especially compared to beta 2!)
–High interoperability
–You code in the language you like, no force
•Weakness
–from Microsoft ;)
(just kidding)
–Leveraging with existing unmanaged code
–Until future release of OS, requires special
installation of framework
–Security of Web Services major concern