Installation - Visual Studio .NET 2003

What is it?

Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 provides a powerful, enterprise team development environment for rapidly building mission-critical applications that target any device and integrate with any platform.

How does it affect my BizTalk Server installation?

Visual Studio .NET is important for the development process in BizTalk Server. To install the BizTalk Server 2004 development tools, you must install Visual Studio .NET 2003 on your computer. The BizTalk Server development tools are based on Visual Studio .NET 2003. Therefore, at a minimum, you must have the Visual C# .NET portion of Visual Studio .NET 2003 installed on your computer before installing BizTalk Server development tools.

You must also install the Visual Studio product documentation for BizTalk Server User Interface (F1) Help to work in the Visual Studio environment.

Source: Luke Nyswonger MSDN Blog