In a recent Tech Ed in US, Microsoft Discloses the Future plan of the visual studio and SQL server.The next version of SQL Server, code-named "Katmai," will be SQL Server 2008; and the next version of Visual Studio, code-named "Orcas," will be, as we predicted, Visual Studio 2008. As per past practice, Microsoft did not disclose when in FY 2008 these products would be released, although it's likely that Visual Studio, which is currently in its first beta version, should be out fairly early next year.As for Visual Studio, Microsoft is also offering a new option for partners to provide the shell, or user interface, which they can customize or extend for third party offerings. It will be available as part of beta 2 later in the summer.his follows April's release of the initial betas of what will be Visual Studio 2008, plus the .NET Framework 3.5, which added direct support for the WinFX programming frameworks of Vista, including Windows Communications Framework and Windows Workflow Foundation.

Additionally, Microsoft announced a new utility, System Center Desktop Error Monitoring (DEM), which provides a central reporting tool for desktop OS error reports; and it announced a new group policy management tool for managing changes, rollbacks, firewall, and other configuration settings via policies that can be role-based. On the server front, Microsoft announced that Internet Information Server 7 (IIS 7) would become part of the core installation option of Microsoft Windows Server 2008, previously code-named Longhorn. This option is designed as Microsoft's answer to bare-bones Linux web servers, in that it pares down the number of Windows components. And with IIS 7, Microsoft is claiming that its web server is finally industrial-strength, at least where it comes to security and scalability, areas which have not been traditionally thought of as IIS strong points