Microsoft Visual Studio

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Microsoft Visual Studio
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Developer
Developer:	Microsoft
Publisher:	Microsoft
Version
Latest Stable Version:	Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
In Development:	none, unknown
Platform
Operating System:	Microsoft Windows
Other Requirements:
Other
License:	Microsoft EULA
Website:	msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio

Microsoft Visual Studio is an IDE from Microsoft used to develop Microsoft Windows-based application software. The Microsoft Visual Studio Supports multiple programming languages, including:

Visual Studio can be used for ASP.NET web development.

1 History
2 Features
3 Tutorials
4 External Links

[edit] History

[edit] Visual Studio 97

The first version of Visual Studio was Visual Studio 97, which bundled many existing Microsoft development tools: Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual J++ and support for ASP web programming. While Visual C++ and J++ used the same development environment, the Visual Basic IDE was a separate executable.

[edit] Visual Studio 6

An old version of Visual Studio (6.0) running Visual Basic 6.0.

Visual Studio 6 was released in June, 1998, and was the last Visual Studio version that did not use the .NET Framework.

[edit] Visual Studio .NET

Visual Studio .NET was released in 2002, introducing the managed code platform, .NET Framework. It and subsequent versions will only run on a Windows NT- based platform. The new version introduced C#, Microsoft's new programming language, and the successor to J++: J#.

The new version was a major improvement to the UI, with all language tools being integrated to the same environment. It supports Windows Forms application development, ASP and .NET Compact Framework development for mobile devices.

[edit] Visual Studio 2005

Visual Studio 2005 showing a C# project.

Visual Studio 2005 was released in October 2005. The name no longer included the .NET part. It was upgraded to support .NET Framework 2.0 projects.

It also included additions to the IntelliSense automatic code completion feature, new ASP.NET project types and support for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 databases.

Service Pack 1 for it was released in December 2006.

[edit] Visual Studio 2008

Visual Studio 2008 showing a C# project.

Visual Studio 2008 was released in November 2007, alongside the .NET Framework 3.5. VS2008 is focused on Windows Vista and Microsoft Office development. It introduced a new .NET language feature, LINQ, alongside new versions of C# and Visual Basic, and a visual designer for the Windows Presentation Foundation.

[edit] Features

Visual Studio includes a source code editor for all supported languages, a Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation form designer, compilers and a debugger.

[edit] Code editor

This screenshot demonstrates IntelliSense autocomplete functionality. In shot 1, the user types "fooClass." and the automatic suggestion window pops up. After he selects to use the function foo_bar, IntelliSense shows the arguments required by the function (string argument1 and int argument2 in this example).

Visual Studio's source code editor includes syntax highlighting and code completion with the IntelliSense feature for variables, functions, methods and loops. IntelliSense supports all included languages, plus XML, CSS and JavaScript for web development.

Visual Studio also features background compilation, which compiles code in the background to see if it is functional or returns an error.

[edit] Debugger

VS includes a debugger that functions both as a source-level debugger and a machine-level debugger. It functions with managed and native code, and can be used for debugging applications written in all languages supported by Visual Studio. It can also attach to running processes.

[edit] Office add-in programmability

The latest version of Visual Studio, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, also has support for creating Add-ins for various Microsoft Office applications. These are the supported ones: