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Visual Studio is a complete suite of tools for building both desktop and team-based Enterprise Web applications. In addition to building high-performing desktop applications, you can use Visual Studio's powerful component-based development tools and other technologies to simplify team-based design, development, and deployment of Enterprise solutions.

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Introducing Visual Studio: Find out more about what's new in Visual Studio, learn more about the .NET Framework, and find pointers on how to get started with this version of Visual Studio.

Integrated Development Environment for Visual Studio: Find out about designing, developing, debugging, testing, deploying, and managing applications created with Visual Studio.

Windows-based Applications, Components, and Services: Decide which tools and technologies to use when building applications and components, as well as what items you can create with Visual Studio.

.NET Framework Programming in Visual Studio: Learn how to use the .NET Framework when developing applications in Visual Basic, Visual C#, and Visual J#.

Visual Basic: Learn what's new in Visual Basic, and discover how to use Visual Basic to develop applications.

Visual C#: Learn what's new in Visual C#, and discover how to use Visual C# to develop applications.

Visual C++: Find out about what's new in Visual C++ and discover how to use Visual C++ to develop applications.

Visual J#: Find out about Visual J#, a tool that Java-language programmers can use to build applications and services to run on the .NET Framework.

JScript: Find out about JScript .NET, a true object-oriented scripting language.

Visual Web Developer: Learn about Visual Web Developer and discover how to use Visual Web Developer to create Web applications.

Visual Studio Team System: Learn about Visual Studio 2005 Team System, which is a productive, integrated, and extensible software development life-cycle tools platform that helps software teams by improving communication and collaboration throughout the software development process.

Visual Studio Tools for Office: Find out how to create business applications that collect, analyze, manipulate, or present information, which take advantage of the robust functionality of Microsoft Office 2003

Smart Device Development: Learn how to develop software that runs on Windows CE-based smart devices such as Pocket PCs and Smartphones.

Tools and Features: Read about Crystal Reports, programming for Windows Server features, and Application Verifier.

.NET Framework Samples: Locate the latest sample applications and examples that are available with this version of Visual Studio.

QuickStarts: Read through the tutorials available with the .NET Framework SDK.

.NET Framework Glossary: Read through definitions for common terms used in the .NET Framework.

Related Sections

Visual Studio SDK: Find out about the Visual Studio Software Development Kit (SDK), which provides extensibility options and toolkits.

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Visual Studio and the unified IDE

Christophe Pichaud ... xabaras2004 | Edit | Show History

In the Win16 era, there was different Development environment:
-Turbo c
-QBasic

-QuickC for Windows 1.0

In the Win32 world,
Visual Basic was shipped into version 4.0 and 5.0,
Visual C++ was shipped into version 2.x, 4.0 and 4.2

and Visual Studio brand names was born to make some coherence and bring one IDE for all the language MS provides.

So Visual Studio 97 was the first edition and then Visual Studio 6.0 shipped VB6 anbd VC 6.0 and the J++ extensions.

Now, Visual Studio .NET (2002), and Visual Studio .NET 2003 was the first .NET edition of the IDE.

And now, MS developers are using Visual Studio 2005, either Express editions of Professional one.

Visual Studio is the evolution of a 20 years battle for Microsoft to bring a world class product to every MS developers.