Back in the Spring BlackBerry Maker, Research in Motion, announced plans for a BlackBerry Plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio. Four months later that plug-in is now available.

Basically, the plug-in brings BlackBerry development to Visual Studio developers, explained John Edward, product manager at RIM during a recent chalk-talk webcast on the new plug-in. It allows developers working within a .NET programming environment to use familiar development tools to access the BlackBerry Mobile Data System (MDS), the enterprise platform for extending applications to the BlackBerry platform.

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