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The Visual Studio partner team has put together a resource DVD with products and information from over 90 Visual Studio partners. It’s loaded with more than 100 add-ins and packages—full and trial versions. You’ll get tools, languages, and components that can help you develop applications for Windows®, Web services, and mobile devices.

From these examples you can find out just how flexible & extendable Visual Studio is. 

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