
The Microsoft® Visual Studio® development system is a suite of development tools designed to aid software developers face complex challenges and create innovative solutions.
With F5's iControl, applications and services using Visual Studio and the .NET Framework can communicate with and influence the behavior of the underlying network in a variety of functions; from a local and global load balancing and traffic management perspective, to a content delivery and fulfillment infrastructure, or both.
With the integration between Microsoft Visual Studio and F5's iControl, organizations benefit from a solution that can interact with the network, resulting in a secure, highly available, scalable environment with little need for manual intervention. F5 Networks is the first and only networking company to offer complete interface support for Microsoft .NET, making F5 a key partner for building, developing, and deploying Web services based on Microsoft .NET technologies.
Organizations can use Visual Studio to write applications that, using iControl, can programmatically execute nearly any task an F5 device can perform. Getting started with iControl is simple, and best of all, free.