What Is Visual Studio?

Visual Studio is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) from Microsoft that allows to develop applications for Websites, Microsoft Windows, mobile devices and other platforms.

Visual Studio supports the following programming languages and technologies:

• Microsoft Visual C/C++
• Microsoft Visual C#
• Microsoft Visual Basic
• Microsoft Visual J++/J#
• Microsoft .NET
• Microsoft Visual Web Developer - For creating Websites, Web applications and Web services.
• Visual InterDev - For Web applications using Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) technologies.
• Team Foundation Server - For collaborative software development projects.
• Visual FoxPro
• Visual SourceSafe

Versions and release dates of Visual Studio:

Name                      Version   Release Date
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Visual Studio 2017           15.0   March 7, 2017
Visual Studio 2015           14.0   July 20, 2015
Visual Studio 2013           12.0   October 17, 2013
Visual Studio 2012           11.0   September 12, 2012
Visual Studio 2010           10.0   April 12, 2010
Visual Studio 2008            9.0   November 19, 2007
Visual Studio 2005            8.0   November 7, 2005
Visual Studio .NET 2003       7.1   April 24, 2003
Visual Studio .NET            7.0   February 13, 2002
Visual Studio 6.0             6.0   June 1998
Visual Studio 97              5.0   February 1997

For more information on Visual Studio, see Microsoft Visual Studio Website

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