Microsoft Visual Studio is a wonderful integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft. Its user friendly and smart. It is used to develop computer program for Microsoft windows. It is also used to develop website, web application, web service and web API. Visual studio code editor support intelliSence and code refactoring. It very smart in the world of IDE.
It support many language such as:
C, C++, C#, VB.NET, F#. It also support Phython and Ruby. Support HTML/XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML/XSLT
Different version of Visual Studio
| Product name | Codename | Internal version |
Supported .NET Framework versions |
Release date |
| Visual Studio | N/A | 4.0 | N/A | April 1995 |
| Visual Studio 97 | Boston | 5.0 | N/A | February 1997 |
| Visual Studio 6.0 | Aspen | 6.0 | N/A | June 1998 |
| Visual Studio .NET (2002) | Rainier | 7.0 | 1.0 | February 13, 2002 |
| Visual Studio .NET 2003 | Everett | 7.1 | 1.1 | April 24, 2003 |
| Visual Studio 2005 | Whidbey | 8.0 | 2.0, 3.0 | November 7, 2005 |
| Visual Studio 2008 | Orcas | 9.0 | 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 | November 19, 2007 |
| Visual Studio 2010 | Dev10/Rosario | 10.0 | 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0 | April 12, 2010 |
| Visual Studio 2012 | Dev11 | 11.0 | 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 4.5.1, 4.5.2 | September 12, 2012 |
| Visual Studio 2013 | Dev12 | 12.0 | 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 4.5.1, 4.5.2 | October 17, 2013 |
| Visual Studio “14” CTP 3 | N/A | N/A | N/A | August 18, 2014 |