Microsoft Technologies NET Platform:. The next big improvement for Microsoft technologies that will bring enterprise distributed computing to the next level by fully integrating the Internet into the development platform. This will allow interaction between any machine on any platform, and on any device. Visual Basic.NET: The update to this popular visual programming language will offer greater Web functionality, more sophisticated object-oriented language features, links to the new common runtime Microsoft, and the new interface. ASP.NET: A programming framework (formerly known as Active Server Pages) for building robust enterprise applications that are web based, can be programmed using VB.NET or C #. C #: Microsoft's new truly object-oriented programming language that is built on the strength of C + + and the ease of Visual Basic, promises to give Sun's Java a run with the money.