Visual Studio

Microsoft Visual Studio is a series of IDEs by Microsoft.

Visual Studio includes one or more of the following. Components can be added in a modular fashion to the main application.

In the past, the following products were included:

Interdev, a web page development application used for modifying Active Server Pages as well as HTML and other web scripting files.
Visual J++, a Java development tool
Visual FoxPro xBase programming language now allied to but independent from the Visual Studio platform.

Major Visual Studio versions include:

Visual Studio 5.0
Visual Studio 6.0 (still popular with VB6 developers who can not shift to VB.NET)
Visual Studio .NET (.NET Framework 1.0)
Visual Studio .NET 2003 (.NET Framework 1.1)
Visual Studio .NET 2005, code named "Whidbey" (currently in beta)
Visual Studio 2005 Express (currently in beta)
Visual Studio 2005 Team System (pre-beta)

Visual Studio 2006 will be released at the same time as Windows Longhorn, it currently is code named Orcas.

External links

Microsoft's Visual Studio product page (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/)
Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005 Express Beta page (http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/)
Microsoft's Visual Studio Team System page (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/teamsystem/default.aspx)

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