One excellent feature of SQL Server 2005 is its integration with the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR). A key benefit of this integration is that developers can now create database objects such as stored procedures, user-defined functions (UDFs), and triggers by using modern object-oriented (OO) languages such as Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET) and C#. Let's look at how to create UDFs by using C# and how to leverage Visual Studio 2005 (VS 2005) in simplifying the deployment of UDFs in SQL Server 2005.