development utilities

If you're a Microsoft developer, you don't have much choice. There are some semi-lame development tools out there for the .NET platform but this is your only real choice. Of course, this is Version 1.0 of new technology so I expect vast improvements in the future. Microsoft is not famous for coming out with high-quality stuff in version 1. I think the visual interface looks worse than Visual Studio 6.0 - not as polished. In fact, it looks kind of like they hired the guy who designed the interface for the Forte for Java thing they push over at Sun - uuuuugly.

Visual Studio .NET is the ultimate tool for the internet, intranet and stand alone developer from entry to high end specialized development. This kit, the enterprise kit includes every tool and documentation that one would need to build any kind of application intened for a Windows Platform or .NET framework.

Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect Edition includes the following enhancements over the Enterprise Developer version

Microsoft Visio®-based database modeling
Capture and communicate business requirements clearly with conceptual, logical, and physical database modeling tools.

Enterprise template project type
Share best practices and provide architectural guidance across the development team with the new Enterprise template project type.

Microsoft BizTalk™ Server
Build distributed business processes that integrate applications and partners, as well as quickly establish reliable, secure trading relationships with customers and partners over the Web.

Overall, no matter where you want to take your code today, you can build it better, smatter, faster with .NET Technologies.