31 Facts About Visual Studio

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Visual Studio is an integrated development environment from Microsoft.

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Visual Studio uses Microsoft software development platforms such as Windows API, Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Store and Microsoft Silverlight.

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Visual Studio includes a code editor supporting IntelliSense as well as code refactoring.

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The Visual Studio SDK includes the Managed Package Framework, which is a set of managed wrappers around the COM-interfaces that allow the Packages to be written in any CLI compliant language.

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Visual Studio supports running multiple instances of the environment .

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The Visual Studio Express edition products are installed with their own AppIds, but the Standard, Professional, and Team Suite products share the same AppId.

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Visual Studio includes a code editor that supports syntax highlighting and code completion using IntelliSense for variables, functions, methods, loops, and LINQ queries.

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Visual Studio includes a host of visual designers to aid in the development of applications.

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Visual Studio allows developers to write extensions for Visual Studio to extend its capabilities.

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The Visual Studio SDK provides unmanaged APIs as well as a managed API to accomplish these tasks.

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11.

Visual Studio 2008 introduced the Visual Studio Shell that allows for development of a customized version of the IDE.

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The Visual Studio Shell defines a set of VSPackages that provide the functionality required in any IDE.

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13.

Visual Studio Community is oriented towards individual developers and small teams.

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14.

Visual Studio 97 was an attempt at using the same development environment for multiple languages.

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Visual Studio Basic changed drastically to fit the new framework, and the new version was called Visual Studio Basic.

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Visual Studio 2005, codenamed Whidbey, was released online in October 2005 and to retail stores a few weeks later.

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Visual Studio 2005 was upgraded to support all the new features introduced in.

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18.

The IntelliSense feature in Visual Studio was upgraded for generics and new project types were added to support ASP.

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Visual Studio 2005 includes a local web server, separate from IIS, that can host ASP.

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Visual Studio 2008 is focused on development of Windows Vista, 2007 Office system, and Web applications.

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21.

Visual Studio 2008 includes new code analysis tools, including the new Code Metrics tool .

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22.

Visual Studio 2010 offers several tools to make parallel programming simpler: in addition to the Parallel Extensions for the.

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23.

NET Framework and the Parallel Patterns Library for native code, Visual Studio 2010 includes tools for debugging parallel applications.

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24.

Current versions of Visual Studio have a known bug which makes IntelliSense unusable for projects using pure C .

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25.

Visual Studio 2015 is the last version to support Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows 8.

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Visual Studio 2017 offers new features like support for EditorConfig, NGen support,.

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27.

Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management is a collection of integrated software development tools developed by Microsoft.

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28.

Visual Studio Lab Management is a software development tool developed by Microsoft for software testers to create and manage virtual environments.

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29.

Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch is an extension and framework specifically tailored for creating line-of-business applications built on existing.

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Visual Studio 2015 is the last release of Visual Studio that includes the LightSwitch tooling.

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Visual Studio Code is a freeware source code editor, along with other features, for Linux, Mac OS, and Windows.

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