The BlackBerry® Plug-in for Microsoft® Visual Studio® allows Microsoft® based developer to develop wirelessly enable applications for BlackBerry® smartphones. Download the Plug-in.

Key benefits for developers include:

  • Familiar development experience — Plugs into an existing Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 development environment, providing a familiar experience for .NET developers to create rich client applications for the BlackBerry platform.
  • Seamless wireless connectivity — Leverages the inherent security and managed wireless connectivity of the BlackBerry® Enterprise Solution, allowing developers to seamlessly connect to back-end enterprise systems using .NET Web Services.
  • Simplified BlackBerry development — Provides a framework of re-useable BlackBerry application components that simplifies user interface design, data management and wireless connectivity of rich-client applications.
  • Enterprise-class security and manageability — Applications developed using the BlackBerry Plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio will leverage the same secure, push-based technology and scalable architecture of BlackBerry® Enterprise Server. IT departments also benefit from simplified management and centralized control of their wireless deployments.

For downloading the plug-in developer needs to have plackberry developer community UID and password. For registration onto blackberry Developer community click.

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