Microsoft Corp. and ArtinSoft, the industry leader in enterprise migration and upgrade technologies, today announced a strategic alliance to help developers interested in building XML Web services with Microsoft® Visual Studio® .NET and the .NET Framework.

This alliance includes services, a strategic equity investment and software that provides Visual Studio .NET developers with a wizard for upgrading to Visual Basic® .NET from Visual Basic 6.0. The Upgrade Wizard uses ArtinSoft´s industry-leading upgrade technology, is integrated seamlessly into the Visual Studio .NET Integrated Developer Environment (IDE) and is provided at no additional cost to Visual Studio .NET customers.

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