The “Microsoft Visual Studio” is an IDE software development package. This package can be used to develop GUI applications, any windows form of programs, internet websites & applications, and web services for any of Microsoft’s platforms. This package creates a complete development environment that includes the code editor (placing your commands there), debugger, compiler etc…
Visual studio supports these programming languages: Visual C/C++, Visual Basic (VB), VB.net, C#, F# (from Visual Studio 2010). When you want support to other languages you will need to install the language services separately and it will support: M, Python, Ruby, XML, HTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript etc…
For old programmers who started at the beginning with C, Pascal, COBOL, Assembler etc… the Microsoft Visual Studio is a real treat since everything
you need is built in one place, all of the tools you need are there, and you can see your results immediately, and you can see your debug errors while you compile on the same environment your working on. Old programmers had to do everything separately, and had to work harder to identify the error lines, in visual studio you can debug step by step and track the variables while you debug, see the variable change during the debug session, and better find your bugs and problems.
The visual studio versions where:
* Visual Studio 97
* Visual Studio 6.0 (1998)
* Visual Studio .NET (2002)
* Visual Studio .NET 2003
* Visual Studio 2005
* Visual Studio 2008
* Now, we have the Visual Studio 2010.
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