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Microsoft Visual Studio

Microsoft Visual Studio is a series of suites of software design, compilation and IDEs programs by Microsoft.

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

• Visual Basic .NET, or prior to .NET, Visual Basic
• Visual C++
• Visual C#
• Visual J#

In the past, the following products were included:

• Interdev (web page development, now arguably supplanted by FrontPage)
• 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 don't want to shift to VB.NET)
• Visual Studio .NET
• Visual Studio .NET 2003
• Visual Studio .NET 2005, code named "Whidbey" (currently in beta)
• Visual Studio 2005 Express (currently in beta)
• Visual Studio 2005 Team System (pre-beta)

External links

• Microsoft's Visual Studio product page
• Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005 Express Beta page
• "Microsoft Rolls Out Visual Studio Express" from Yahoo! News
• Microsoft's Visual Studio Team System page

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