It is really a hodgepodge of different products including server software, Visual Studio, Windows Embedded device platforms and consulting services.

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During the demonstration of RAD for the Server, Dave Mendlen, Visual Studio product planner, built what he called a "middle-tier business object" for a wine-selling Web site using six lines of code, an operation that he said would take "hundreds of lines of code" with the current version of Visual Basic 6.

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Support for a slew of Microsoft Web tools and technologies, including Active Server Pages, Office 2000, Visual Basic Script and FrontPage 2000.

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