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Visual Studio

December 18, 2023

Not to be confused with Visual Studio Code or Visual Studio for Mac.

Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft. It is used to develop computer programs including websites, web apps, web services and mobile apps. Visual Studio uses Microsoft software development platforms such as Windows API, Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Store and Microsoft Silverlight. It can produce both native code and managed code.

Visual Studio
Screenshot of Visual Studio 2013, editing the source code of a C++ program
Developer(s)Microsoft
Stable release
2022 17.8.1[1]  / 21 November 2023
Written in
[2]
Operating system
Available in13 languages
List of languages
Chinese, Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish and Turkish[4]
TypeIntegrated development environment
LicenseFreemium[5]
Websitevisualstudio.microsoft.com

Visual Studio includes a code editor supporting IntelliSense (the code completion component) as well as code refactoring. The integrated debugger works as both a source-level debugger and as a machine-level debugger. Other built-in tools include a code profiler, designer for building GUI applications, web designer, class designer, and database schema designer. It accepts plug-ins that expand the functionality at almost every level—including adding support for source control systems (like Subversion and Git) and adding new toolsets like editors and visual designers for domain-specific languages or toolsets for other aspects of the software development lifecycle (like the Azure DevOps client: Team Explorer).

Visual Studio supports 36 different programming languages[citation needed] and allows the code editor and debugger to support (to varying degrees) nearly any programming language, provided a language-specific service exists. Built-in languages include C,[6] C++, C++/CLI, Visual Basic .NET, C#, F#,[7] JavaScript, TypeScript, XML, XSLT, HTML, and CSS. Support for other languages such as Python,[8] Ruby, Node.js, and M among others is available via plug-ins. Java (and J#) were supported in the past.

The most basic edition of Visual Studio, the Community edition, is available free of charge. The slogan for Visual Studio Community edition is "Free, fully-featured IDE for students, open-source and individual developers". As of January 10, 2023, Visual Studio 2022 is a current production-ready version. Visual Studio 2013, 2015 and 2017 are on Extended Support, while 2019 is on Mainstream Support.[9]

Architecture edit

Visual Studio does not support any programming language, solution or tool intrinsically; instead, it allows the plugging of functionality coded as a VSPackage. When installed, the functionality is available as a Service. The IDE provides three services: SVsSolution, which provides the ability to enumerate projects and solutions; SVsUIShell, which provides windowing and UI functionality (including tabs, toolbars, and tool windows); and SVsShell, which deals with registration of VSPackages. In addition, the IDE is also responsible for coordinating and enabling communication between services.[10] All editors, designers, project types and other tools are implemented as VSPackages. Visual Studio uses COM to access the VSPackages. The Visual Studio SDK also includes the Managed Package Framework (MPF), which is a set of managed wrappers around the COM-interfaces that allow the Packages to be written in any CLI compliant language.[11] However, MPF does not provide all the functionality exposed by the Visual Studio COM interfaces.[12] The services can then be consumed for creation of other packages, which add functionality to the Visual Studio IDE.

Support for programming languages is added by using a specific VSPackage called a Language Service. A language service defines various interfaces which the VSPackage implementation can implement to add support for various functionalities.[13] Functionalities that can be added this way include syntax coloring, statement completion, brace matching, parameter information tooltips, member lists, and error markers for background compilation.[13] If the interface is implemented, the functionality will be available for the language. Language services are implemented on a per-language basis. The implementations can reuse code from the parser or the compiler for the language.[13] Language services can be implemented either in native code or managed code. For native code, either the native COM interfaces or the Babel Framework (part of Visual Studio SDK) can be used.[14] For managed code, the MPF includes wrappers for writing managed language services.[15]

Visual Studio does not include any source control support built in but it defines two alternative ways for source control systems to integrate with the IDE.[16] A Source Control VSPackage can provide its own customised user interface. In contrast, a source control plugin using the MSSCCI (Microsoft Source Code Control Interface) provides a set of functions that are used to implement various source control functionality, with a standard Visual Studio user interface.[17][18] MSSCCI was first used to integrate Visual SourceSafe with Visual Studio 6.0 but was later opened up via the Visual Studio SDK. Visual Studio .NET 2002 used MSSCCI 1.1, and Visual Studio .NET 2003 used MSSCCI 1.2. Visual Studio 2005, 2008, and 2010 use MSSCCI Version 1.3, which adds support for rename and delete propagation, as well as asynchronous opening.[18]

Visual Studio supports running multiple instances of the environment (each with its own set of VSPackages). The instances use different registry hives (see MSDN's definition of the term "registry hive" in the sense used here) to store their configuration state and are differentiated by their AppId (Application ID). The instances are launched by an AppId-specific .exe that selects the AppId, sets the root hive, and launches the IDE. VSPackages registered for one AppId are integrated with other VSPackages for that AppId. The various product editions of Visual Studio are created using the different AppIds. The Visual Studio Express edition products are installed with their own AppIds, but the Standard, Professional, and Team Suite products share the same AppId. Consequently, one can install the Express editions side-by-side with other editions, unlike the other editions which update the same installation. The professional edition includes a superset of the VSPackages in the standard edition, and the team suite includes a superset of the VSPackages in both other editions. The AppId system is leveraged by the Visual Studio Shell in Visual Studio 2008.[19]

Features edit

Code editor edit

Visual Studio includes a code editor that supports syntax highlighting and code completion using IntelliSense for variables, functions, methods, loops, and LINQ queries.[20] IntelliSense is supported for the included languages, as well as for XML, Cascading Style Sheets, and JavaScript when developing web sites and web applications.[21][22] Autocomplete suggestions appear in a modeless list box over the code editor window, in proximity of the editing cursor. In Visual Studio 2008 onwards, it can be made temporarily semi-transparent to see the code obstructed by it.[20] The code editor is used for all supported languages.

The code editor in Visual Studio also supports setting bookmarks in code for quick navigation. Other navigational aids include collapsing code blocks and incremental search, in addition to normal text search and regex search.[23] The code editor also includes a multi-item clipboard and a task list.[23] The code editor supports code snippets, which are saved templates for repetitive code and can be inserted into code and customized for the project being worked on. A management tool for code snippets is built in as well. These tools are surfaced as floating windows which can be set to automatically hide when unused or docked to the side of the screen. The code editor in Visual Studio also supports code refactoring including parameter reordering, variable and method renaming, interface extraction, and encapsulation of class members inside properties, among others.

Debugger edit

Visual Studio includes a debugger that works both as a source-level debugger and as a machine-level debugger. It works with both managed code as well as native code and can be used for debugging applications written in any language supported by Visual Studio. In addition, it can also attach to running processes, monitor, and debug those processes.[24] If source code for the running process is available, it displays the code as it is being run. If source code is not available, it can show the disassembly. The Visual Studio debugger can also create memory dumps as well as load them later for debugging.[25] Multi-threaded programs are also supported. The debugger can be configured to be launched when an application running outside the Visual Studio environment crashes.

The Visual Studio Debugger allows setting breakpoints (which allow execution to be stopped temporarily at a certain position) and watches (which monitor the values of variables as the execution progresses).[26] Breakpoints can be conditional, meaning they get triggered when the condition is met. Code can be stepped over, i.e., run one line (of source code) at a time.[27] It can either step into functions to debug inside it, or step over it, i.e., the execution of the function body isn't available for manual inspection.[27] The debugger supports Edit and Continue, i.e., it allows code to be edited as it is being debugged. When debugging, if the mouse pointer hovers over any variable, its current value is displayed in a tooltip ("data tooltips"), where it can also be modified if desired. During coding, the Visual Studio debugger lets certain functions be invoked manually from the Immediate tool window. The parameters to the method are supplied at the Immediate window.[28]

Designer edit

Visual Studio includes a host of visual designers to aid in the development of applications. These tools include:

Windows Forms Designer
The Windows Forms designer is used to build GUI applications using Windows Forms. Layout can be controlled by housing the controls inside other containers or locking them to the side of the form. Controls that display data (like textbox, list box and grid view) can be bound to data sources like databases or queries. Data-bound controls can be created by dragging items from the Data Sources window onto a design surface.[29] The UI is linked with code using an event-driven programming model. The designer generates either C# or VB.NET code for the application.
WPF Designer
The WPF designer, codenamed Cider,[30] was introduced with Visual Studio 2008. Like the Windows Forms designer it supports the drag and drop metaphor. It is used to author user interfaces targeting Windows Presentation Foundation. It supports all WPF functionality including data binding and automatic layout management. It generates XAML code for the UI. The generated XAML file is compatible with Microsoft Expression Design, the designer-oriented product. The XAML code is linked with code using a code-behind model.
Web designer/development
Visual Studio also includes a web-site editor and designer that allows web pages to be authored by dragging and dropping widgets. It is used for developing ASP.NET applications and supports HTML, CSS and JavaScript. It uses a code-behind model to link with ASP.NET code. From Visual Studio 2008 onwards, the layout engine used by the web designer is shared with the discontinued Expression Web. There is also ASP.NET MVC support for MVC technology as a separate download[31] and ASP.NET Dynamic Data project available from Microsoft.[32]
Class designer
The Class Designer is used to author and edit the classes (including its members and their access) using UML modeling. The Class Designer can generate C# and VB.NET code outlines for the classes and methods. It can also generate class diagrams from hand-written classes.
Data designer
The data designer can be used to graphically edit database schemas, including typed tables, primary and foreign keys and constraints. It can also be used to design queries from the graphical view.
Mapping designer
From Visual Studio 2008 onwards, the mapping designer is used by LINQ to SQL to design the mapping between database schemas and the classes that encapsulate the data. The new solution from ORM approach, ADO.NET Entity Framework, replaces and improves the old technology.

Other tools edit

Properties Editor
The Properties Editor tool is used to edit properties in a GUI pane inside Visual Studio. It lists all available properties (both read-only and those which can be set) for all objects including classes, forms, web pages and other items.
Object Browser
The Object Browser is a namespace and class library browser for Microsoft .NET. It can be used to browse the namespaces (which are arranged hierarchically) in managed assemblies. The hierarchy may or may not reflect the organization in the file system.
Solution Explorer
In Visual Studio parlance, a solution is a set of code files and other resources that are used to build an application. The files in a solution are arranged hierarchically, which might or might not reflect the organization in the file system. The Solution Explorer is used to manage and browse the files in a solution.
Team Explorer
Team Explorer is used to integrate the capabilities of Azure DevOps (either Azure DevOps Services or Azure DevOps Server) into the IDE . In addition to version control integration it provides the ability to view and manage individual work items (including user stories, bugs, tasks and other documents). It is included as part of a Visual Studio installation and is also available as a standalone download.[33][34]
Data Explorer
Data Explorer is used to manage databases on Microsoft SQL Server instances. It allows creation and alteration of database tables (either by issuing T-SQL commands or by using the Data designer). It can also be used to create queries and stored procedures, with the latter in either T-SQL or in managed code via SQL CLR. Debugging and IntelliSense support is available as well.
Server Explorer
The Server Explorer tool is used to manage database connections on an accessible computer. It is also used to browse running Windows Services, performance counters, Windows Event Log and message queues and use them as a datasource.[35]
Dotfuscator Community Edition
Visual Studio includes a free 'light' version of Dotfuscator[36]
Text Generation Framework
Visual Studio includes a full text generation framework called T4 which enables Visual Studio to generate text files from templates either in the IDE or via code.
ASP.NET Web Site Administration Tool
The ASP.NET Web Site Administration Tool allows for the configuration of ASP.NET websites.
Visual Studio Tools for Office
Visual Studio Tools for Office is a SDK and an add-in for Visual Studio that includes tools for developing for the Microsoft Office suite. Previously (for Visual Studio .NET 2003 and Visual Studio 2005) it was a separate SKU that supported only Visual C# and Visual Basic languages or was included in the Team Suite. With Visual Studio 2008, it is no longer a separate SKU but is included with Professional and higher editions. A separate runtime is required when deploying VSTO solutions.

Testing tools edit

Microsoft Visual Studio can write high-quality code with comprehensive testing tools to aid in the development of applications. These tools include:[37]

Unit testing, IntelliTest, Live Unit Testing, Test Explorer, CodeLens test indicators, Code coverage analysis, Fakes.[37]

Extensibility edit

See also: List of Microsoft Visual Studio add-ins

Visual Studio allows developers to write extensions for Visual Studio to extend its capabilities. These extensions "plug into" Visual Studio and extend its functionality. Extensions come in the form of macros, add-ins, and packages. Macros represent repeatable tasks and actions that developers can record programmatically for saving, replaying, and distributing. Macros, however, cannot implement new commands or create tool windows. They are written using Visual Basic and are not compiled.[12] Add-Ins provide access to the Visual Studio object model and can interact with the IDE tools. Add-Ins can be used to implement new functionality and can add new tool windows. Add-Ins are plugged into the IDE via COM and can be created in any COM-compliant languages.[12] Packages are created using the Visual Studio SDK and provide the highest level of extensibility. They can create designers and other tools, as well as integrate other programming languages. The Visual Studio SDK provides unmanaged APIs as well as a managed API to accomplish these tasks. However, the managed API isn't as comprehensive as the unmanaged one.[12] Extensions are supported in the Standard (and higher) versions of Visual Studio 2005. Express Editions do not support hosting extensions.

Visual Studio 2008 introduced the Visual Studio Shell that allows for development of a customized version of the IDE. The Visual Studio Shell defines a set of VSPackages that provide the functionality required in any IDE. On top of that, other packages can be added to customize the installation. The Isolated mode of the shell creates a new AppId where the packages are installed. These are to be started with a different executable. It is aimed for development of custom development environments, either for a specific language or a specific scenario. The Integrated mode installs the packages into the AppId of the Professional/Standard/Team System editions, so that the tools integrate into these editions.[19] The Visual Studio Shell is available as a free download.

After the release of Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft created the Visual Studio Gallery. It serves as the central location for posting information about extensions to Visual Studio. Community developers as well as commercial developers can upload information about their extensions to Visual Studio .NET 2002 through Visual Studio 2010. Users of the site can rate and review the extensions to help assess the quality of extensions being posted. An extension is stored in a VSIX file. Internally a VSIX file is a ZIP file that contains some XML files, and possibly one or more DLL's. One of the main advantages of these extensions is that they do not require Administrator rights to be installed. RSS feeds to notify users on updates to the site and tagging features are also planned.[38]

Supported products edit

Microsoft Visual C++
Microsoft Visual C++ is Microsoft's partial implementation of the C and full implementation C++ compiler and associated languages-services and specific tools for integration with the Visual Studio IDE. It can compile either in C mode or C++ mode. For C++, as of version 15.7 it conforms to C++17.[39] The C implementation of Visual Studio 2015 still doesn't support the full standard; in particular, the complex number header complex.h introduced in C99 is unsupported.
Visual C++ supports the C++/CLI specification to write managed code, as well as mixed-mode code (a mix of native and managed code). Microsoft positions Visual C++ for development in native code or in code that contains both native as well as managed components. Visual C++ supports COM as well as the MFC library. For MFC development, it provides a set of wizards for creating and customizing MFC boilerplate code, and creating GUI applications using MFC. Visual C++ can also use the Visual Studio forms designer to design UI graphically. Visual C++ can also be used with the Windows API. It also supports the use of intrinsic functions,[40] which are functions recognized by the compiler itself and not implemented as a library. Intrinsic functions are used to expose the SSE instruction set of modern CPUs. Visual C++ also includes the OpenMP (version 2.0) specification.[41]
Microsoft Visual C#
Microsoft Visual C#, Microsoft's implementation of the C# language, targets the .NET Framework, along with the language services that lets the Visual Studio IDE support C# projects. While the language services are a part of Visual Studio, the compiler is available separately as a part of the .NET Framework. The Visual C# 2008, 2010 and 2012 compilers support versions 3.0, 4.0 and 5.0 of the C# language specifications, respectively. Visual C# supports the Visual Studio Class designer, Forms designer, and Data designer among others.[42]
Microsoft Visual Basic
Microsoft Visual Basic is Microsoft's implementation of the VB.NET language and associated tools and language services. It was introduced with Visual Studio .NET (2002). Microsoft has positioned Visual Basic for Rapid Application Development.[43][44] Visual Basic can be used to author both console applications as well as GUI applications. Like Visual C#, Visual Basic also supports the Visual Studio Class designer, Forms designer, and Data designer among others. Like C#, the VB.NET compiler is also available as a part of .NET Framework, but the language services that let VB.NET projects be developed with Visual Studio, are available as a part of the latter.
Microsoft Visual Web Developer
Microsoft Visual Web Developer is used to create web sites, web applications and web services using ASP.NET. Either C# or VB.NET languages can be used. Visual Web Developer can use the Visual Studio Web Designer to graphically design web page layouts.
Azure DevOps
Azure DevOps is intended for collaborative software development projects and provides version control, work planning and tracking, data collection, and reporting. It also includes the Team Explorer which is integrated inside Visual Studio. On September 10, 2018, Microsoft announced a rebranding of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to Azure DevOps Services and Team Foundation Server (TFS) to Azure DevOps Server.[45]

Previous products edit

Visual FoxPro
Visual FoxPro is a data-centric object-oriented and procedural programming language produced by Microsoft. It derives from FoxPro (originally known as FoxBASE) which was developed by Fox Software beginning in 1984. Visual FoxPro is tightly integrated with its own relational database engine, which extends FoxPro's xBase capabilities to support SQL queries and data manipulation. Visual FoxPro is a full-featured,[46] dynamic programming language that does not require the use of an additional general-purpose programming environment. In 2007, Visual FoxPro was discontinued after version 9 Service Pack 2. It was supported until 2015.[47]
Visual SourceSafe
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe is a source control software package oriented towards small software-development projects. The SourceSafe database is a multi-user, multi-process file-system database, using the Windows file system database primitives to provide locking and sharing support. All versions are multi-user, using SMB (file server) networking.[48][49][50] However, with Visual SourceSafe 2005, other client–server modes were added, Lan Booster and VSS Internet (which used HTTP/HTTPS). Visual SourceSafe 6.0 was available as a stand-alone product[51] and was included with Visual Studio 6.0, and other products such as Office Developer Edition. Visual SourceSafe 2005 was available as a stand-alone product and included with the 2005 Team Suite. Azure DevOps has superseded VSS as Microsoft's recommended platform for source control.
Microsoft Visual J++/Microsoft Visual J#
Microsoft Visual J++ was Microsoft's implementation of the Java language (with Microsoft-specific extensions) and associated language services. It was discontinued as a result of litigation from Sun Microsystems, and the technology was recycled into Visual J#, Microsoft's Java compiler for .NET Framework. J# was available with Visual Studio 2005 (supported until 2015) but was discontinued in Visual Studio 2008.
Visual InterDev
Visual InterDev was used to create web applications using Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) technologies. It supports code completion and includes database server management tools. It has been replaced with Microsoft Visual Web Developer.

Editions edit

Microsoft Visual Studio is available in the following editions or SKUs:[52]

Community edit

The Community edition was announced on November 12, 2014, as a new free version, with similar functionality to Visual Studio Professional. Prior to this date, the only free editions of Visual Studio were the feature-limited Express variants. Unlike the Express variants, Visual Studio Community supports multiple languages, and provides support for extensions. Individual developers have no restrictions on their use of the Community edition. The following uses also allow unlimited usage: contributing to Open Source projects, academic research, in a classroom learning environment and for developing and testing device drivers for the Windows operating system. All other use by an organization depends on its classification as an Enterprise (more than 250 employees or more than 1 million USD in annual revenue, per Microsoft).[53] Non-Enterprises may use up to 5 copies without restriction, user number 6 and higher require a commercial license; Enterprise organizations require a commercial license for use outside of the noted exceptions.[53][54] Visual Studio Community is oriented towards individual developers and small teams.[55][56]

Professional edit

As of Visual Studio 2010, the Professional edition is the entry level commercial edition of Visual Studio. (Previously, a more feature restricted Standard edition was available.)[57] It provides an IDE for all supported development languages. MSDN support is available as MSDN Essentials or the full MSDN library depending on licensing. It supports XML and XSLT editing, and can create deployment packages that only use ClickOnce and MSI. It includes tools like Server Explorer and integration with Microsoft SQL Server also. Windows Mobile development support was included in Visual Studio 2005 Standard, however, with Visual Studio 2008, it is only available in Professional and higher editions. Windows Phone 7 development support was added to all editions in Visual Studio 2010. Development for Windows Mobile is no longer supported in Visual Studio 2010. It is superseded by Windows Phone 7.

Enterprise edit

In addition to the features provided by the Professional edition, the Enterprise edition provides a new set of software development, database development, collaboration, metrics, architecture, testing and reporting tools.

History edit

The first version of Visual Studio was Visual Studio 97.[58] Before that, Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual FoxPro and Visual SourceSafe were sold as separate products.

Product name Code name Release date Version
number 		Latest update version Latest update date Support ends Supported
.NET Framework
(no add-on) 		Supported .NET
(formerly .NET Core)
(no add-on)
Visual Studio 97 Boston[59] March 19, 1997[60][61][62] 5.0 Service Pack 3 December 4, 1997 Old version, no longer maintained: June 30, 2003[63][64] — —
Visual Studio 6.0 Aspen[65] September 2, 1998[66][67] 6.0 Service Pack 6[68] March 29, 2004 Old version, no longer maintained: September 30, 2005[69][70] — —
Visual Studio .NET (2002) Rainier[71] February 13, 2002[72] 7.0 Service Pack 1[73] March 8, 2005 Old version, no longer maintained: July 14, 2009[74] 1.0 —
Visual Studio .NET 2003 Everett[75] April 24, 2003[76] 7.1 Service Pack 1[77] August 15, 2006 Old version, no longer maintained: October 8, 2013[78] 1.1 —
Visual Studio 2005 Whidbey[79] November 7, 2005[80][81] 8.0 Service Pack 1[82] December 15, 2006 Old version, no longer maintained: April 12, 2016[83] 2.0 —
Visual Studio 2008 Orcas[84] November 19, 2007[85][86] 9.0 Service Pack 1[87] August 11, 2008 Old version, no longer maintained: April 10, 2018[88] 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 —
Visual Studio 2010 Dev10[89] April 12, 2010[90][91][92] 10.0 Service Pack 1[93][94] March 10, 2011 Old version, no longer maintained: July 14, 2020[95] 2.0–4.0 —
Visual Studio 2012 Dev11 September 12, 2012[96][97][98] 11.0 Update 5[99] August 24, 2015 Old version, no longer maintained: January 10, 2023[100] 2.0–4.5 —
Visual Studio 2013 Dev12 October 17, 2013[101][102] 12.0 Update 5[103] July 20, 2015 Older version, yet still maintained: April 9, 2024[100] 2.0–4.5.1 —
Visual Studio 2015 Dev14 July 20, 2015[103][104] 14.0 Update 3[105] June 27, 2016 Older version, yet still maintained: October 14, 2025[100] 2.0–4.6.1 1.0
Visual Studio 2017 Dev15 March 7, 2017[106] 15.0 15.9.55[107] June 13, 2023 Older version, yet still maintained: April 13, 2027[100] 3.5–4.7.2 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 2.1
Visual Studio 2019 Dev16 April 2, 2019[108] 16.0 16.11.32[109][110] November 14, 2023 Older version, yet still maintained: April 10, 2029[111] 3.5–4.8 2.1, 2.2, 3.0, 3.1, 5.0[112]
Visual Studio 2022 Dev17 November 8, 2021[113] 17.0 17.8.3[114] December 5, 2023 Current stable version: January 13, 2032[115] 3.5, 4.6–4.8.1 2.1, 3.1, 5.0–8.0[116][117]

97 edit

Microsoft first released Visual Studio (codenamed Boston,[59] for the city of the same name, thus beginning the VS codenames related to places)[59] in 1997, bundling many of its programming tools together for the first time. Visual Studio 97 came in two editions: Visual Studio Professional and Visual Studio Enterprise, the professional edition has three CDs, and the enterprise four CDs. It included Visual J++ 1.1 for Java programming and introduced Visual InterDev for creating dynamically generated web sites using Active Server Pages.[citation needed] There was a single companion CD that contained the Microsoft Developer Network library.

Visual Studio 97 was an attempt at using the same development environment for multiple languages. Visual J++, InterDev, and the MSDN Library had all been using the same 'environment', called Developer Studio.[118]

Visual Studio was also sold as a bundle with the separate IDEs used for Visual C++, Visual Basic and Visual FoxPro.[19]

6.0 (1998) edit

The next version, version 6.0 (codenamed Aspen, after the ski resort in Colorado),[citation needed] was released in June 1998 and is the last version to run on the Windows 9x platform.[119] Each version of each language in part also settled to v6.0, including Visual J++ which was prior v1.1, and Visual InterDev at the first release. The v6 edition of Microsoft was the core environment for the next four releases to provide programmers with an integrated look-alike platform. This led Microsoft to transition the development on the platform independent .NET Framework.

Visual Studio 6.0 was the last version to include Visual J++,[120][121] which Microsoft removed as part of a settlement with Sun Microsystems that required Microsoft Internet Explorer not to provide support for the Java Virtual Machine.

Visual Studio 6.0 came in two editions: Professional and Enterprise.[122] The Enterprise edition contained extra features not found in Professional edition, including:

  • Application Performance Explorer
  • Automation Manager
  • Microsoft Visual Modeler
  • RemAuto Connection Manager[citation needed]
  • Visual Studio Analyzer

Visual Studio was also sold as a bundle with the separate IDEs used for Visual C++, Visual Basic and Visual FoxPro.[19]

.NET 2002 edit

 
The default start page of Visual Studio .NET 2002, running on Windows XP

Microsoft released Visual Studio .NET (VS.NET), codenamed Rainier (for Washington's Mount Rainier),[citation needed] in February 2002 (the beta version was released via Microsoft Developer Network in 2001). The biggest change was the introduction of a managed code development environment using the .NET Framework. Programs developed using .NET are not compiled to machine language (like C++ is, for example) but instead to a format called Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL) or Common Intermediate Language (CIL). When a CIL application executes, it is compiled while being executed into the appropriate machine language for the platform it is being executed on, thereby making code portable across several platforms. Programs compiled into CIL can be executed only on platforms which have an implementation of Common Language Infrastructure. It is possible to run CIL programs in Linux or Mac OS X using non-Microsoft .NET implementations like Mono and DotGNU.

This was the first version of Visual Studio to require an NT-based Windows platform.[123] The installer enforces this requirement, and is the last version to support Windows NT 4.0 SP6a.

Visual Studio .NET 2002 shipped in four editions: Academic, Professional, Enterprise Developer, and Enterprise Architect. Microsoft introduced C# (C-sharp), a new programming language, that targets .NET. It also introduced the successor to Visual J++ called Visual J#. Visual J# programs use Java's language-syntax. However, unlike Visual J++ programs, Visual J# programs can only target the .NET Framework, not the Java Virtual Machine that all other Java tools target.

Visual Basic changed drastically to fit the new framework, and the new version was called Visual Basic .NET. Microsoft also added extensions to C++, called Managed Extensions for C++, so .NET programs could be created in C++.

Visual Studio .NET can produce applications targeting Windows (using the Windows Forms part of the .NET Framework), the Web (using ASP.NET and Web Services) and, with an add-in, portable devices (using the .NET Compact Framework).

The internal version number of Visual Studio .NET 2002 is version 7.0. Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio .NET 2002 in March 2005.[124]

.NET 2003 edit

 
Default start page of Visual Studio .NET 2003 running on Windows XP

In April 2003, Microsoft introduced a minor upgrade to Visual Studio .NET called Visual Studio .NET 2003, codenamed Everett (for the city of the same name).[citation needed] It includes an upgrade to the .NET Framework, version 1.1, and is the first release to support developing programs for mobile devices, using ASP.NET or the .NET Compact Framework. The Visual C++ compiler's standards-compliance improved, especially in the area of partial template specialization. Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 is a version of the same C++ compiler shipped with Visual Studio .NET 2003 without the IDE that Microsoft made freely available. As of 2010 it is no longer available and the Express Editions have superseded it. Visual Studio .NET 2003 also supports Managed C++, which is the predecessor of C++/CLI. The internal version number of Visual Studio .NET 2003 is version 7.1 while the file format version is 8.0.[125] Visual Studio .NET 2003 drops support for Windows NT 4.0, and is the last version to support Windows 2000 versions below SP3 and Windows XP before SP2.

Visual Studio .NET 2003 shipped in five editions: Academic, Standard, Professional, Enterprise Developer, and Enterprise Architect. The Visual Studio .NET 2003 Enterprise Architect edition includes an implementation of Microsoft Visio 2002's modeling technologies, including tools for creating Unified Modeling Language-based visual representations of an application's architecture, and an object-role modeling (ORM) and logical database-modeling solution. "Enterprise Templates" were also introduced, to help larger development teams standardize coding styles and enforce policies around component usage and property settings.

Service Pack 1 was released September 13, 2006.[126]

2005 edit

 
Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 Team Suite installation disc

Visual Studio 2005, codenamed Whidbey (a reference to Whidbey Island in Puget Sound region),[citation needed] was released online in October 2005 and to retail stores a few weeks later. Microsoft removed the ".NET" moniker from Visual Studio 2005 (as well as every other product with .NET in its name), but it still primarily targets the .NET Framework, which was upgraded to version 2.0. It is the last version to run on Windows 2000 and also the last version able to target Windows 98, Windows Me and Windows Server 2003 RTM for C++ applications.[127][128]

Visual Studio 2005's internal version number is 8.0 while the file format version is 9.0.[125] Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2005 on December 14, 2006.[129] An additional update for Service Pack 1 that offers Windows Vista compatibility was made available on June 3, 2007.[130]

Visual Studio 2005 was upgraded to support all the new features introduced in .NET Framework 2.0, including generics and ASP.NET 2.0. The IntelliSense feature in Visual Studio was upgraded for generics and new project types were added to support ASP.NET web services. Visual Studio 2005 additionally introduces support for a new task-based build platform called Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) which employs a new XML-based project file format.[131] Visual Studio 2005 also includes a local web server, separate from IIS, that can host ASP.NET applications during development and testing. It also supports all SQL Server 2005 databases. Database designers were upgraded to support the ADO.NET 2.0, which is included with .NET Framework 2.0. C++ also got a similar upgrade with the addition of C++/CLI which is slated to replace the use of Managed C++.[132] Other new features of Visual Studio 2005 include the "Deployment Designer" which allows application designs to be validated before deployments, an improved environment for web publishing when combined with ASP.NET 2.0 and load testing to see application performance under various sorts of user loads. Starting with the 2005 edition, Visual Studio also added extensive 64-bit support. While the host development environment itself is only available as a 32-bit application, Visual C++ 2005 supports compiling for x86-64 (AMD64 and Intel 64) as well as IA-64 (Itanium).[133] The Platform SDK included 64-bit compilers and 64-bit versions of the libraries.

Microsoft also announced Visual Studio Tools for Applications as the successor to Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and VSA (Visual Studio for Applications). VSTA 1.0 was released to manufacturing along with Office 2007. It is included with Office 2007 and is also part of the Visual Studio 2005 SDK. VSTA consists of a customized IDE, based on the Visual Studio 2005 IDE, and a runtime that can be embedded in applications to expose its features via the .NET object model. Office 2007 applications continue to integrate with VBA, except for InfoPath 2007 which integrates with VSTA. Version 2.0 of VSTA (based on Visual Studio 2008) was released in April 2008.[134] It is significantly different from the first version, including features such as dynamic programming and support for WPF, WCF, WF, LINQ, and .NET 3.5 Framework.

2008 edit

Visual Studio 2008,[135] and Visual Studio Team System 2008[136][137] codenamed Orcas (a reference to Orcas Island, also an island in Puget Sound region, like Whidbey for the previous 2005 release), were released to MSDN subscribers on November 19, 2007, alongside .NET Framework 3.5. The source code for the Visual Studio 2008 IDE is available under a shared source license to some of Microsoft's partners and ISVs.[84] Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2008 on August 11, 2008.[138] The internal version number of Visual Studio 2008 is version 9.0 while the file format version is 10.0. Visual Studio 2008 is the last version able to target Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP1 and Windows Vista RTM for C++ applications.[139]

Visual Studio 2008 is focused on development of Windows Vista, 2007 Office system, and Web applications. For visual design, a new Windows Presentation Foundation visual designer and a new HTML/CSS editor influenced by Microsoft Expression Web are included. J# is not included. Visual Studio 2008 requires .NET 3.5 Framework and by default configures compiled assemblies to run on .NET Framework 3.5, but it also supports multi-targeting which lets the developers choose which version of the .NET Framework (out of 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, Silverlight CoreCLR or .NET Compact Framework) the assembly runs on. Visual Studio 2008 also includes new code analysis tools, including the new Code Metrics tool (only in Team Edition and Team Suite Edition).[140] For Visual C++, Visual Studio adds a new version of Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC 9.0) that adds support for the visual styles and UI controls introduced with Windows Vista.[141] For native and managed code interoperability, Visual C++ introduces the STL/CLR, which is a port of the C++ Standard Template Library (STL) containers and algorithms to managed code. STL/CLR defines STL-like containers, iterators and algorithms that work on C++/CLI managed objects.[142][143]

Visual Studio 2008 features include an XAML-based designer (codenamed Cider), workflow designer, LINQ to SQL designer (for defining the type mappings and object encapsulation for SQL Server data), XSLT debugger, JavaScript Intellisense support, JavaScript Debugging support, support for UAC manifests, a concurrent build system, among others.[144] It ships with an enhanced set of UI widgets, both for Windows Forms and WPF. It also includes a multithreaded build engine (MSBuild) to compile multiple source files (and build the executable file) in a project across multiple threads simultaneously. It also includes support for compiling icon resources in PNG format, introduced in Windows Vista. An updated XML Schema designer was released separately some time after the release of Visual Studio 2008.[145]

Visual Studio Debugger includes features targeting easier debugging of multi-threaded applications. In debugging mode, in the Threads window, which lists all the threads, hovering over a thread displays the stack trace of that thread in tooltips.[146] The threads can directly be named and flagged for easier identification from that window itself.[147] In addition, in the code window, along with indicating the location of the currently executing instruction in the current thread, the currently executing instructions in other threads are also pointed out.[147][148] The Visual Studio debugger supports integrated debugging of the .NET 3.5 Framework Base Class Library (BCL) which can dynamically download the BCL source code and debug symbols and allow stepping into the BCL source during debugging.[149] As of 2010 a limited subset of the BCL source is available, with more library support planned for later.

2010 edit

On April 12, 2010, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010, codenamed Dev10,[89] and .NET Framework 4.[150][151] It is the last version to support Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP1, Windows Server 2008 below SP2, Windows 7 before SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 before SP1.

The Visual Studio 2010 IDE was redesigned which, according to Microsoft, clears the UI organization and "reduces clutter and complexity."[152] The new IDE better supports multiple document windows and floating tool windows,[152] while offering better multi-monitor support. The IDE shell has been rewritten using the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), whereas the internals have been redesigned using Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) that offers more extensibility points than previous versions of the IDE that enabled add-ins to modify the behavior of the IDE.[153]

The new multi-paradigm ML-variant F# forms part of Visual Studio 2010.[154]

Visual Studio 2010 comes with .NET Framework 4 and supports developing applications targeting Windows 7.[152] It supports IBM Db2 and Oracle databases, in addition to Microsoft SQL Server.[152] It has integrated support for developing Microsoft Silverlight applications, including an interactive designer.[152] Visual Studio 2010 offers several tools to make parallel programming simpler: in addition to the Parallel Extensions for the .NET Framework and the Parallel Patterns Library for native code, Visual Studio 2010 includes tools for debugging parallel applications. The new tools allow the visualization of parallel Tasks and their runtime stacks.[155] Tools for profiling parallel applications can be used for visualization of thread wait-times and thread migrations across processor cores.[156] Intel and Microsoft have jointly pledged support for a new Concurrency Runtime in Visual Studio 2010[157] and Intel has launched parallelism support in Parallel Studio as an add-on for Visual Studio.[158]

The Visual Studio 2010 code editor now highlights references; whenever a symbol is selected, all other usages of the symbol are highlighted.[159] It also offers a Quick Search feature to incrementally search across all symbols in C++, C# and VB.NET projects. Quick Search supports substring matches and camelCase searches.[159] The Call Hierarchy feature allows the developer to see all the methods that are called from a current method as well as the methods that call the current one.[159] IntelliSense in Visual Studio supports a consume-first mode which developers can opt into. In this mode, IntelliSense does not auto-complete identifiers; this allows the developer to use undefined identifiers (like variable or method names) and define those later. Visual Studio 2010 can also help in this by automatically defining them, if it can infer their types from usage.[159] Current versions of Visual Studio have a known bug which makes IntelliSense unusable for projects using pure C (not C++).[160]

Visual Studio 2010 features a new Help System replacing the MSDN Library viewer. The Help System is no longer based on Microsoft Help 2 and does not use Microsoft Document Explorer. Dynamic help containing links to help items based on what the developer was doing at the time was removed in the final release,[161] but can be added back using a download from Microsoft.[162]

Visual Studio 2010 no longer supports development for Windows Mobile prior to Windows Phone 7. Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 was released in March 2011.[163]

Ultimate 2010 edit

Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 replaces Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite.[164] It includes new modeling tools,[165] such as the Architecture Explorer, which graphically displays projects and classes and the relationships between them.[166][167] It supports UML activity diagram, component diagram, (logical) class diagram, sequence diagram, and use case diagram.[167] Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 also includes Test Impact Analysis which provides hints on which test cases are impacted by modifications to the source code, without actually running the test cases.[168] This speeds up testing by avoiding running unnecessary test cases.

Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 also includes a historical debugger for managed code called IntelliTrace. Unlike a traditional debugger that records only the currently active stack, IntelliTrace records all events, such as prior function calls, method parameters, events and exceptions. This allows the code execution to be rewound in case a breakpoint was not set where the error occurred.[169] Debugging with IntelliTrace causes the application to run more slowly than debugging without it, and uses more memory as additional data needs to be recorded. Microsoft allows configuration of how much data should be recorded, in effect, allowing developers to balance the speed of execution and resource usage. The Lab Management component of Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 uses virtualization to create a similar execution environment for testers and developers. The virtual machines are tagged with checkpoints which can later be investigated for issues, as well as to reproduce the issue.[170] Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 also includes the capability to record test runs that capture the specific state of the operating environment as well as the precise steps used to run the test. These steps can then be played back to reproduce issues.[171]

2012 edit

 
Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 logo

The final build of Visual Studio 2012 was announced on August 1, 2012, and the official launch event was held on September 12, 2012.[172]

Unlike prior versions, Visual Studio 2012 cannot record and play macros and the macro editor has been removed.[173]

New features include support for WinRT and C++/CX (Component Extensions) and C++ AMP (GPGPU programming) Semantic Colorization.[174]

On September 16, 2011, a complete 'Developer Preview' of Visual Studio 11 was published on Microsoft's website. Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview requires Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8, or later operating systems.[175] Versions of Microsoft Foundation Class Library (MFC) and C runtime (CRT) included with this release cannot produce software that is compatible with Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 except by using native multi-targeting and foregoing the newest libraries, compilers, and headers.[176] However, on June 15, 2012, a blog post on the VC++ Team blog announced that based on customer feedback, Microsoft would re-introduce native support for Windows XP targets (though not for XP as a development platform) in a version of Visual C++ to be released later in the fall of 2012.[177] "Visual Studio 2012 Update 1" (Visual Studio 2012.1) was released in November 2012. This update added support for Windows XP targets and also added other new tools and features (e.g. improved diagnostics and testing support for Windows Store apps).[178]

On August 24, 2011, a blog post by Sumit Kumar, a Program Manager on the Visual C++ team, listed some of the features of the upcoming version of the Visual Studio C++ IDE:[179]

  • Semantic colorization: Improved syntax coloring, various user-defined or default colors for C++ syntax such as macros, enumerations, typenames and functions.[179]
  • Reference highlighting: Selection of a symbol highlights all of the references to that symbol within scope.[179]
  • New Solution Explorer: The new Solution Explorer allows for visualization of class and file hierarchies within a solution/project. It can search for calls to functions and uses of classes.[179]
  • Automatic display of IntelliSense list: IntelliSense is automatically displayed whilst typing code, as opposed to previous versions where it had to be explicitly invoked through use of certain operators (i.e. the scope operator (::)) or shortcut keys (Ctrl-Space or Ctrl-J).[179]
  • Member list filtering: IntelliSense uses fuzzy logic to determine which functions/variables/types to display in the list.[179]
  • Code snippets: Code snippets are included in IntelliSense to automatically generate relevant code based on the user's parameters, custom code snippets can be created.[179]

The source code of Visual Studio 2012 consists of approximately 50 million lines of code.[180]

Interface backlash edit

During Visual Studio 11 beta, Microsoft eliminated the use of color within tools except in cases where color is used for notification or status change purposes. However, the use of color was returned after feedback demanding more contrast, differentiation, clarity and "energy" in the user interface.[181][182]

In the Visual Studio 2012 release candidate (RC), a major change to the interface is the use of all-caps menu bar, as part of the campaign to keep Visual Studio consistent with the direction of other Microsoft user interfaces, and to provide added structure to the top menu bar area.[183] The redesign was criticized for being hard to read, and going against the trends started by developers to use CamelCase to make words stand out better.[184] Some speculated that the root cause of the redesign was to incorporate the simplistic look and feel of Metro programs.[185] However, there exists a Windows Registry option to allow users to disable the all-caps interface.[186]

2013 edit

The preview for Visual Studio 2013 was announced at the Build 2013 conference and made available on June 26, 2013.[187] The Visual Studio 2013 RC (Release Candidate) was made available to developers on MSDN on September 9, 2013.[188]

The final release of Visual Studio 2013 became available for download on October 17, 2013, along with .NET 4.5.1.[189] Visual Studio 2013 officially launched on November 13, 2013, at a virtual launch event keynoted by S. Somasegar and hosted on events.visualstudio.com.[190] "Visual Studio 2013 Update 1" (Visual Studio 2013.1) was released on January 20, 2014.[191] Visual Studio 2013.1 is a targeted update that addresses some key areas of customer feedback.[192] "Visual Studio 2013 Update 2" (Visual Studio 2013.2) was released on May 12, 2014.[193] Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 was released on August 4, 2014. With this update, Visual Studio provides an option to disable the all-caps menus, which was introduced in VS2012.[194] "Visual Studio 2013 Update 4" (Visual Studio 2013.4) was released on November 12, 2014.[195] "Visual Studio 2013 Update 5" (Visual Studio 2013.5) was released on July 20, 2015.[196]

2015 edit

Initially referred to as Visual Studio "14", the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) was released on June 3, 2014[197] and the Release Candidate was released on April 29, 2015; Visual Studio 2015 was officially announced as the final name on November 12, 2014.[198]

Visual Studio 2015 RTM was released on July 20, 2015.[196] Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 was released on November 30, 2015.[196] Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 was released on March 30, 2016.[196] Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 was released on June 27, 2016.[196] Visual Studio 2015 is the last version to support Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows 8.

2017 edit

 
Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 logo

Initially referred to as Visual Studio "15", it was released on March 7, 2017.[199] The first Preview was released on March 30, 2016.[200] Visual Studio "15" Preview 2 was released May 10, 2016.[201][202] Visual Studio "15" Preview 3 was released on July 7, 2016.[203][204] Visual Studio "15" Preview 4 was released on August 22, 2016.[205][206] Visual Studio "15" Preview 5 was released on October 5, 2016.[207]

On November 14, 2016, for a brief period of time, Microsoft released a blog post revealing Visual Studio 2017 product name version alongside upcoming features.[208]

On November 16, 2016, "Visual Studio 2017" was announced as the final name,[209] and Visual Studio 2017 RC was released.[210]

On March 7, 2017, Visual Studio 2017 was released for general availability.[210]

On March 14, 2017, first fix was released for Visual Studio 2017 due to failures during installation or opening solutions in the first release.[210]

On April 5, 2017, Visual Studio 2017 15.1 was released and added support for targeting the .NET Framework 4.7.

On May 10, 2017, Visual Studio 2017 15.2 was released and added a new workload, "Data Science and Analytical Applications Workload". An update to fix the dark color theme was released on May 12, 2017.

On August 14, 2017, Visual Studio 2017 15.3 was released and added support for targeting .NET Core 2.0. An update (15.3.1) was released four days later to address a Git vulnerability with submodules (CVE 2017-1000117).

On October 10, 2017, Visual Studio 15.4 was released.[211]

On December 4, 2017, Visual Studio 15.5 was released. This update contained major performance improvements, new features, as well as bug fixes.[212]

On March 6, 2018, Visual Studio 15.6 was released. It includes updates to unit testing and performance.[213]

On May 7, 2018, Visual Studio 15.7 was released. It included updates across the board including, the installer, editor, debugger among others. Almost all point releases, the latest of which is 15.7.6 released August 2, 2018, include security updates. With the release of Visual Studio 2017 15.7, Visual C++ now conforms to the C++17 standard.[39]

On September 20, 2018, Visual Studio 15.8.5 was released. Tools for Xamarin now supports Xcode 10.[214]

Visual Studio 2017 offers new features like support for EditorConfig (a coding style enforcement framework), NGen support, .NET Core and Docker toolset (Preview), and Xamarin 4.3 (Preview).[210] It also has a XAML Editor, improved IntelliSense, live unit testing, debugging enhancement and better IDE experience and productivity. Additionally, it is the last version of Visual Studio to support maintaining Windows 10 Mobile projects.[215]

2019 edit

 
Visual Studio 2019 icon

On June 6, 2018, Microsoft announced Visual Studio 2019 (version 16).[216]

On December 4, 2018, Visual Studio 2019 Preview 1 was released.[217]

On January 24, 2019, Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2 was released.[218]

On February 13, 2019, Visual Studio 2019 Preview 3 was released.[219]

On February 27, 2019, Visual Studio 2019 RC was released.[220]

It is generally available (GA) since April 2, 2019 and available for download.[108]

2022 edit

On April 19, 2021, Microsoft announced Visual Studio 2022 (version 17).[221][222] It is the first version to run as a 64-bit process allowing Visual Studio main process to access more than 4 GB of memory, preventing out-of-memory exceptions which could occur with large projects.

On June 17, 2021, Visual Studio 2022 Preview 1 was released.[223]

On July 14, 2021, Visual Studio 2022 Preview 2 was released.[224]

On August 10, 2021, Visual Studio 2022 Preview 3 was released.[225]

On September 14, 2021, Visual Studio 2022 Preview 4 was released.[226]

On October 12, 2021, Visual Studio 2022 RC and Preview 5 was released while setting November 8, 2021 for its general availability.[227]

It is generally available (GA) since November 8, 2021 and available for download.[228]

Related products edit

Azure DevOps Services edit

See also: Azure DevOps Server

On November 13, 2013, Microsoft announced the release of a software as a service offering of Visual Studio on Microsoft Azure platform; at the time, Microsoft called it Visual Studio Online. Previously announced as Team Foundation Services, it expanded over the on-premises Team Foundation Server (TFS; now known as Azure DevOps Server) by making it available on the Internet and implementing a rolling release model.[229][230] Customers could use Azure portal to subscribe to Visual Studio Online. Subscribers receive a hosted Git-compatible version control system, a load-testing service, a telemetry service and an in-browser code editor codenamed "Monaco".[231] During the Connect(); 2015 developer event on November 18, 2015, Microsoft announced that the service was rebranded as "Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)".[232] On September 10, 2018, Microsoft announced another rebranding of the service, this time to "Azure DevOps Services".[45]

Microsoft offers Stakeholder, Basic, and Visual Studio subscriber access levels for Azure DevOps Services. The Basic plan is free of charge for up to five users. Users with a Visual Studio subscription can be added to a plan with no additional charge.[233]

Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management edit

Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is a collection of integrated software development tools developed by Microsoft. These tools currently consist of the IDE (Visual Studio 2015 Community and greater editions), server (Team Foundation Server), and cloud services (Visual Studio Team Services).[234] Visual Studio ALM supports team-based development and collaboration, Agile project management, DevOps, source control, packaging, continuous development, automated testing, release management, continuous delivery, and reporting tools for apps and services.[235]

In Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008, the brand was known as Microsoft Visual Studio Team System (VSTS). In October 2009, the Team System brand was renamed[165][236] Visual Studio ALM with the Visual Studio 2010 (codenamed 'Rosario') release.[237]

Visual Studio Team Services debuted as Visual Studio Online in 2013 and was renamed in 2015.[238]

Visual Studio Lab Management edit

Visual Studio Lab Management is a software development tool developed by Microsoft for software testers to create and manage virtual environments. Lab Management extends the existing Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management platform to enable an integrated Hyper-V based test lab. Since Visual Studio 2012, it is already shipped as a part of it; and, can be set up after Azure DevOps and SCVMM are integrated.[239]

Visual Studio LightSwitch edit

Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch is an extension and framework specifically tailored for creating line-of-business applications built on existing .NET technologies and Microsoft platforms. The applications produced are architecturally 3-tier: the user interface runs on either Microsoft Silverlight or HTML 5 client,[240] or as a SharePoint 2013 app;[241] the logic and data-access tier is built on WCF Data Services and exposed as an OData feed hosted[242] in ASP.NET; and the primary data storage supports Microsoft SQL Server Express, Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft SQL Azure. LightSwitch also supports other data sources including Microsoft SharePoint, OData and WCF RIA Services.

LightSwitch includes graphical designers for designing entities and entity relationships, entity queries, and UI screens. Business logic may be written in either Visual Basic or Visual C#. LightSwitch is included with Visual Studio 2012 Professional and higher. Visual Studio 2015 is the last release of Visual Studio that includes the LightSwitch tooling.[243]

The user interface layer is now an optional component when deploying a LightSwitch solution, allowing a service-only deployment.[244]

The first version of Visual Studio LightSwitch, released July 26, 2011,[245] had many differences from the current[when?] release of LightSwitch. Notably the tool was purchased and installed as a stand-alone product. If Visual Studio 2010 Professional or higher was already installed on the machine, LightSwitch would integrate into that.[246] The second major difference was the middle tier was built and exposed using WCF RIA Services.

As of October 14, 2016, Microsoft no longer recommends LightSwitch for new application development.[247]

Visual Studio Code edit

Main article: Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code is a freeware source code editor, along with other features, for Linux, Mac OS, and Windows.[248] It also includes support for debugging and embedded Git Control. It is built on open-source,[249] and on April 14, 2016, version 1.0 was released.[250]

Visual Studio Team System Profiler edit

Main article: VSTS Profiler

Visual Studio Team System Profiler (VSTS Profiler) is a tool to analyze the performance of .NET projects that analyzes the space and time complexity of the program.[251] It analyzes the code and prepares a report that includes CPU sampling, instrumentation, .NET memory allocation and resource contention.

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Not to be confused with Visual Studio Code or Visual Studio for Mac Visual Studio is an integrated development environment IDE from Microsoft It is used to develop computer programs including websites web apps web services and mobile apps Visual Studio uses Microsoft software development platforms such as Windows API Windows Forms Windows Presentation Foundation Windows Store and Microsoft Silverlight It can produce both native code and managed code Visual StudioScreenshot of Visual Studio 2013 editing the source code of a C programDeveloper s MicrosoftStable release2022 17 8 1 1 21 November 2023Written inC C 2 Operating systemWindows 10 and later Windows Server 2016 and later 3 macOS until 2024 Available in13 languagesList of languagesChinese Czech English French German Italian Japanese Korean Polish Portuguese Brazil Russian Spanish and Turkish 4 TypeIntegrated development environmentLicenseFreemium 5 Websitevisualstudio wbr microsoft wbr comVisual Studio includes a code editor supporting IntelliSense the code completion component as well as code refactoring The integrated debugger works as both a source level debugger and as a machine level debugger Other built in tools include a code profiler designer for building GUI applications web designer class designer and database schema designer It accepts plug ins that expand the functionality at almost every level including adding support for source control systems like Subversion and Git and adding new toolsets like editors and visual designers for domain specific languages or toolsets for other aspects of the software development lifecycle like the Azure DevOps client Team Explorer Visual Studio supports 36 different programming languages citation needed and allows the code editor and debugger to support to varying degrees nearly any programming language provided a language specific service exists Built in languages include C 6 C C CLI Visual Basic NET C F 7 JavaScript TypeScript XML XSLT HTML and CSS Support for other languages such as Python 8 Ruby Node js and M among others is available via plug ins Java and J were supported in the past The most basic edition of Visual Studio the Community edition is available free of charge The slogan for Visual Studio Community edition is Free fully featured IDE for students open source and individual developers As of January 10 2023 update Visual Studio 2022 is a current production ready version Visual Studio 2013 2015 and 2017 are on Extended Support while 2019 is on Mainstream Support 9 Contents 1 Architecture 2 Features 2 1 Code editor 2 2 Debugger 2 3 Designer 2 4 Other tools 2 5 Testing tools 2 6 Extensibility 3 Supported products 3 1 Previous products 4 Editions 4 1 Community 4 2 Professional 4 3 Enterprise 5 History 5 1 97 5 2 6 0 1998 5 3 NET 2002 5 4 NET 2003 5 5 2005 5 6 2008 5 7 2010 5 7 1 Ultimate 2010 5 8 2012 5 8 1 Interface backlash 5 9 2013 5 10 2015 5 11 2017 5 12 2019 5 13 2022 6 Related products 6 1 Azure DevOps Services 6 2 Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management 6 3 Visual Studio Lab Management 6 4 Visual Studio LightSwitch 6 5 Visual Studio Code 6 6 Visual Studio Team System Profiler 7 See also 8 References 9 External linksArchitecture editVisual Studio does not support any programming language solution or tool intrinsically instead it allows the plugging of functionality coded as a VSPackage When installed the functionality is available as a Service The IDE provides three services SVsSolution which provides the ability to enumerate projects and solutions SVsUIShell which provides windowing and UI functionality including tabs toolbars and tool windows and SVsShell which deals with registration of VSPackages In addition the IDE is also responsible for coordinating and enabling communication between services 10 All editors designers project types and other tools are implemented as VSPackages Visual Studio uses COM to access the VSPackages The Visual Studio SDK also includes the Managed Package Framework MPF which is a set of managed wrappers around the COM interfaces that allow the Packages to be written in any CLI compliant language 11 However MPF does not provide all the functionality exposed by the Visual Studio COM interfaces 12 The services can then be consumed for creation of other packages which add functionality to the Visual Studio IDE Support for programming languages is added by using a specific VSPackage called a Language Service A language service defines various interfaces which the VSPackage implementation can implement to add support for various functionalities 13 Functionalities that can be added this way include syntax coloring statement completion brace matching parameter information tooltips member lists and error markers for background compilation 13 If the interface is implemented the functionality will be available for the language Language services are implemented on a per language basis The implementations can reuse code from the parser or the compiler for the language 13 Language services can be implemented either in native code or managed code For native code either the native COM interfaces or the Babel Framework part of Visual Studio SDK can be used 14 For managed code the MPF includes wrappers for writing managed language services 15 Visual Studio does not include any source control support built in but it defines two alternative ways for source control systems to integrate with the IDE 16 A Source Control VSPackage can provide its own customised user interface In contrast a source control plugin using the MSSCCI Microsoft Source Code Control Interface provides a set of functions that are used to implement various source control functionality with a standard Visual Studio user interface 17 18 MSSCCI was first used to integrate Visual SourceSafe with Visual Studio 6 0 but was later opened up via the Visual Studio SDK Visual Studio NET 2002 used MSSCCI 1 1 and Visual Studio NET 2003 used MSSCCI 1 2 Visual Studio 2005 2008 and 2010 use MSSCCI Version 1 3 which adds support for rename and delete propagation as well as asynchronous opening 18 Visual Studio supports running multiple instances of the environment each with its own set of VSPackages The instances use different registry hives see MSDN s definition of the term registry hive in the sense used here to store their configuration state and are differentiated by their AppId Application ID The instances are launched by an AppId specific exe that selects the AppId sets the root hive and launches the IDE VSPackages registered for one AppId are integrated with other VSPackages for that AppId The various product editions of Visual Studio are created using the different AppIds The Visual Studio Express edition products are installed with their own AppIds but the Standard Professional and Team Suite products share the same AppId Consequently one can install the Express editions side by side with other editions unlike the other editions which update the same installation The professional edition includes a superset of the VSPackages in the standard edition and the team suite includes a superset of the VSPackages in both other editions The AppId system is leveraged by the Visual Studio Shell in Visual Studio 2008 19 Features editCode editor edit Visual Studio includes a code editor that supports syntax highlighting and code completion using IntelliSense for variables functions methods loops and LINQ queries 20 IntelliSense is supported for the included languages as well as for XML Cascading Style Sheets and JavaScript when developing web sites and web applications 21 22 Autocomplete suggestions appear in a modeless list box over the code editor window in proximity of the editing cursor In Visual Studio 2008 onwards it can be made temporarily semi transparent to see the code obstructed by it 20 The code editor is used for all supported languages The code editor in Visual Studio also supports setting bookmarks in code for quick navigation Other navigational aids include collapsing code blocks and incremental search in addition to normal text search and regex search 23 The code editor also includes a multi item clipboard and a task list 23 The code editor supports code snippets which are saved templates for repetitive code and can be inserted into code and customized for the project being worked on A management tool for code snippets is built in as well These tools are surfaced as floating windows which can be set to automatically hide when unused or docked to the side of the screen The code editor in Visual Studio also supports code refactoring including parameter reordering variable and method renaming interface extraction and encapsulation of class members inside properties among others Debugger edit Visual Studio includes a debugger that works both as a source level debugger and as a machine level debugger It works with both managed code as well as native code and can be used for debugging applications written in any language supported by Visual Studio In addition it can also attach to running processes monitor and debug those processes 24 If source code for the running process is available it displays the code as it is being run If source code is not available it can show the disassembly The Visual Studio debugger can also create memory dumps as well as load them later for debugging 25 Multi threaded programs are also supported The debugger can be configured to be launched when an application running outside the Visual Studio environment crashes The Visual Studio Debugger allows setting breakpoints which allow execution to be stopped temporarily at a certain position and watches which monitor the values of variables as the execution progresses 26 Breakpoints can be conditional meaning they get triggered when the condition is met Code can be stepped over i e run one line of source code at a time 27 It can either step into functions to debug inside it or step over it i e the execution of the function body isn t available for manual inspection 27 The debugger supports Edit and Continue i e it allows code to be edited as it is being debugged When debugging if the mouse pointer hovers over any variable its current value is displayed in a tooltip data tooltips where it can also be modified if desired During coding the Visual Studio debugger lets certain functions be invoked manually from the Immediate tool window The parameters to the method are supplied at the Immediate window 28 Designer edit Visual Studio includes a host of visual designers to aid in the development of applications These tools include Windows Forms Designer The Windows Forms designer is used to build GUI applications using Windows Forms Layout can be controlled by housing the controls inside other containers or locking them to the side of the form Controls that display data like textbox list box and grid view can be bound to data sources like databases or queries Data bound controls can be created by dragging items from the Data Sources window onto a design surface 29 The UI is linked with code using an event driven programming model The designer generates either C or VB NET code for the application WPF Designer The WPF designer codenamed Cider 30 was introduced with Visual Studio 2008 Like the Windows Forms designer it supports the drag and drop metaphor It is used to author user interfaces targeting Windows Presentation Foundation It supports all WPF functionality including data binding and automatic layout management It generates XAML code for the UI The generated XAML file is compatible with Microsoft Expression Design the designer oriented product The XAML code is linked with code using a code behind model Web designer development Visual Studio also includes a web site editor and designer that allows web pages to be authored by dragging and dropping widgets It is used for developing ASP NET applications and supports HTML CSS and JavaScript It uses a code behind model to link with ASP NET code From Visual Studio 2008 onwards the layout engine used by the web designer is shared with the discontinued Expression Web There is also ASP NET MVC support for MVC technology as a separate download 31 and ASP NET Dynamic Data project available from Microsoft 32 Class designer The Class Designer is used to author and edit the classes including its members and their access using UML modeling The Class Designer can generate C and VB NET code outlines for the classes and methods It can also generate class diagrams from hand written classes Data designer The data designer can be used to graphically edit database schemas including typed tables primary and foreign keys and constraints It can also be used to design queries from the graphical view Mapping designer From Visual Studio 2008 onwards the mapping designer is used by LINQ to SQL to design the mapping between database schemas and the classes that encapsulate the data The new solution from ORM approach ADO NET Entity Framework replaces and improves the old technology Other tools edit Properties Editor The Properties Editor tool is used to edit properties in a GUI pane inside Visual Studio It lists all available properties both read only and those which can be set for all objects including classes forms web pages and other items Object Browser The Object Browser is a namespace and class library browser for Microsoft NET It can be used to browse the namespaces which are arranged hierarchically in managed assemblies The hierarchy may or may not reflect the organization in the file system Solution Explorer In Visual Studio parlance a solution is a set of code files and other resources that are used to build an application The files in a solution are arranged hierarchically which might or might not reflect the organization in the file system The Solution Explorer is used to manage and browse the files in a solution Team Explorer Team Explorer is used to integrate the capabilities of Azure DevOps either Azure DevOps Services or Azure DevOps Server into the IDE In addition to version control integration it provides the ability to view and manage individual work items including user stories bugs tasks and other documents It is included as part of a Visual Studio installation and is also available as a standalone download 33 34 Data Explorer Data Explorer is used to manage databases on Microsoft SQL Server instances It allows creation and alteration of database tables either by issuing T SQL commands or by using the Data designer It can also be used to create queries and stored procedures with the latter in either T SQL or in managed code via SQL CLR Debugging and IntelliSense support is available as well Server Explorer The Server Explorer tool is used to manage database connections on an accessible computer It is also used to browse running Windows Services performance counters Windows Event Log and message queues and use them as a datasource 35 Dotfuscator Community Edition Visual Studio includes a free light version of Dotfuscator 36 Text Generation Framework Visual Studio includes a full text generation framework called T4 which enables Visual Studio to generate text files from templates either in the IDE or via code ASP NET Web Site Administration Tool The ASP NET Web Site Administration Tool allows for the configuration of ASP NET websites Visual Studio Tools for Office Visual Studio Tools for Office is a SDK and an add in for Visual Studio that includes tools for developing for the Microsoft Office suite Previously for Visual Studio NET 2003 and Visual Studio 2005 it was a separate SKU that supported only Visual C and Visual Basic languages or was included in the Team Suite With Visual Studio 2008 it is no longer a separate SKU but is included with Professional and higher editions A separate runtime is required when deploying VSTO solutions Testing tools edit Microsoft Visual Studio can write high quality code with comprehensive testing tools to aid in the development of applications These tools include 37 Unit testing IntelliTest Live Unit Testing Test Explorer CodeLens test indicators Code coverage analysis Fakes 37 Extensibility edit See also List of Microsoft Visual Studio add ins Visual Studio allows developers to write extensions for Visual Studio to extend its capabilities These extensions plug into Visual Studio and extend its functionality Extensions come in the form of macros add ins and packages Macros represent repeatable tasks and actions that developers can record programmatically for saving replaying and distributing Macros however cannot implement new commands or create tool windows They are written using Visual Basic and are not compiled 12 Add Ins provide access to the Visual Studio object model and can interact with the IDE tools Add Ins can be used to implement new functionality and can add new tool windows Add Ins are plugged into the IDE via COM and can be created in any COM compliant languages 12 Packages are created using the Visual Studio SDK and provide the highest level of extensibility They can create designers and other tools as well as integrate other programming languages The Visual Studio SDK provides unmanaged APIs as well as a managed API to accomplish these tasks However the managed API isn t as comprehensive as the unmanaged one 12 Extensions are supported in the Standard and higher versions of Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions do not support hosting extensions Visual Studio 2008 introduced the Visual Studio Shell that allows for development of a customized version of the IDE The Visual Studio Shell defines a set of VSPackages that provide the functionality required in any IDE On top of that other packages can be added to customize the installation The Isolated mode of the shell creates a new AppId where the packages are installed These are to be started with a different executable It is aimed for development of custom development environments either for a specific language or a specific scenario The Integrated mode installs the packages into the AppId of the Professional Standard Team System editions so that the tools integrate into these editions 19 The Visual Studio Shell is available as a free download After the release of Visual Studio 2008 Microsoft created the Visual Studio Gallery It serves as the central location for posting information about extensions to Visual Studio Community developers as well as commercial developers can upload information about their extensions to Visual Studio NET 2002 through Visual Studio 2010 Users of the site can rate and review the extensions to help assess the quality of extensions being posted An extension is stored in a VSIX file Internally a VSIX file is a ZIP file that contains some XML files and possibly one or more DLL s One of the main advantages of these extensions is that they do not require Administrator rights to be installed RSS feeds to notify users on updates to the site and tagging features are also planned 38 Supported products editMicrosoft Visual C Microsoft Visual C is Microsoft s partial implementation of the C and full implementation C compiler and associated languages services and specific tools for integration with the Visual Studio IDE It can compile either in C mode or C mode For C as of version 15 7 it conforms to C 17 39 The C implementation of Visual Studio 2015 still doesn t support the full standard in particular the complex number header complex h introduced in C99 is unsupported Visual C supports the C CLI specification to write managed code as well as mixed mode code a mix of native and managed code Microsoft positions Visual C for development in native code or in code that contains both native as well as managed components Visual C supports COM as well as the MFC library For MFC development it provides a set of wizards for creating and customizing MFC boilerplate code and creating GUI applications using MFC Visual C can also use the Visual Studio forms designer to design UI graphically Visual C can also be used with the Windows API It also supports the use of intrinsic functions 40 which are functions recognized by the compiler itself and not implemented as a library Intrinsic functions are used to expose the SSE instruction set of modern CPUs Visual C also includes the OpenMP version 2 0 specification 41 Microsoft Visual C Microsoft Visual C Microsoft s implementation of the C language targets the NET Framework along with the language services that lets the Visual Studio IDE support C projects While the language services are a part of Visual Studio the compiler is available separately as a part of the NET Framework The Visual C 2008 2010 and 2012 compilers support versions 3 0 4 0 and 5 0 of the C language specifications respectively Visual C supports the Visual Studio Class designer Forms designer and Data designer among others 42 Microsoft Visual Basic Microsoft Visual Basic is Microsoft s implementation of the VB NET language and associated tools and language services It was introduced with Visual Studio NET 2002 Microsoft has positioned Visual Basic for Rapid Application Development 43 44 Visual Basic can be used to author both console applications as well as GUI applications Like Visual C Visual Basic also supports the Visual Studio Class designer Forms designer and Data designer among others Like C the VB NET compiler is also available as a part of NET Framework but the language services that let VB NET projects be developed with Visual Studio are available as a part of the latter Microsoft Visual Web Developer Microsoft Visual Web Developer is used to create web sites web applications and web services using ASP NET Either C or VB NET languages can be used Visual Web Developer can use the Visual Studio Web Designer to graphically design web page layouts Azure DevOps Azure DevOps is intended for collaborative software development projects and provides version control work planning and tracking data collection and reporting It also includes the Team Explorer which is integrated inside Visual Studio On September 10 2018 Microsoft announced a rebranding of Visual Studio Team Services VSTS to Azure DevOps Services and Team Foundation Server TFS to Azure DevOps Server 45 Previous products edit Visual FoxPro Visual FoxPro is a data centric object oriented and procedural programming language produced by Microsoft It derives from FoxPro originally known as FoxBASE which was developed by Fox Software beginning in 1984 Visual FoxPro is tightly integrated with its own relational database engine which extends FoxPro s xBase capabilities to support SQL queries and data manipulation Visual FoxPro is a full featured 46 dynamic programming language that does not require the use of an additional general purpose programming environment In 2007 Visual FoxPro was discontinued after version 9 Service Pack 2 It was supported until 2015 47 Visual SourceSafe Microsoft Visual SourceSafe is a source control software package oriented towards small software development projects The SourceSafe database is a multi user multi process file system database using the Windows file system database primitives to provide locking and sharing support All versions are multi user using SMB file server networking 48 49 50 However with Visual SourceSafe 2005 other client server modes were added Lan Booster and VSS Internet which used HTTP HTTPS Visual SourceSafe 6 0 was available as a stand alone product 51 and was included with Visual Studio 6 0 and other products such as Office Developer Edition Visual SourceSafe 2005 was available as a stand alone product and included with the 2005 Team Suite Azure DevOps has superseded VSS as Microsoft s recommended platform for source control Microsoft Visual J Microsoft Visual J Microsoft Visual J was Microsoft s implementation of the Java language with Microsoft specific extensions and associated language services It was discontinued as a result of litigation from Sun Microsystems and the technology was recycled into Visual J Microsoft s Java compiler for NET Framework J was available with Visual Studio 2005 supported until 2015 but was discontinued in Visual Studio 2008 Visual InterDev Visual InterDev was used to create web applications using Microsoft Active Server Pages ASP technologies It supports code completion and includes database server management tools It has been replaced with Microsoft Visual Web Developer Editions editMicrosoft Visual Studio is available in the following editions or SKUs 52 Community edit The Community edition was announced on November 12 2014 as a new free version with similar functionality to Visual Studio Professional Prior to this date the only free editions of Visual Studio were the feature limited Express variants Unlike the Express variants Visual Studio Community supports multiple languages and provides support for extensions Individual developers have no restrictions on their use of the Community edition The following uses also allow unlimited usage contributing to Open Source projects academic research in a classroom learning environment and for developing and testing device drivers for the Windows operating system All other use by an organization depends on its classification as an Enterprise more than 250 employees or more than 1 million USD in annual revenue per Microsoft 53 Non Enterprises may use up to 5 copies without restriction user number 6 and higher require a commercial license Enterprise organizations require a commercial license for use outside of the noted exceptions 53 54 Visual Studio Community is oriented towards individual developers and small teams 55 56 Professional edit As of Visual Studio 2010 the Professional edition is the entry level commercial edition of Visual Studio Previously a more feature restricted Standard edition was available 57 It provides an IDE for all supported development languages MSDN support is available as MSDN Essentials or the full MSDN library depending on licensing It supports XML and XSLT editing and can create deployment packages that only use ClickOnce and MSI It includes tools like Server Explorer and integration with Microsoft SQL Server also Windows Mobile development support was included in Visual Studio 2005 Standard however with Visual Studio 2008 it is only available in Professional and higher editions Windows Phone 7 development support was added to all editions in Visual Studio 2010 Development for Windows Mobile is no longer supported in Visual Studio 2010 It is superseded by Windows Phone 7 Enterprise edit In addition to the features provided by the Professional edition the Enterprise edition provides a new set of software development database development collaboration metrics architecture testing and reporting tools History editThe first version of Visual Studio was Visual Studio 97 58 Before that Visual Basic Visual C Visual FoxPro and Visual SourceSafe were sold as separate products Product name Code name Release date Versionnumber Latest update version Latest update date Support ends Supported NET Framework no add on Supported NET formerly NET Core no add on Visual Studio 97 Boston 59 March 19 1997 60 61 62 5 0 Service Pack 3 December 4 1997 Old version no longer maintained June 30 2003 63 64 Visual Studio 6 0 Aspen 65 September 2 1998 66 67 6 0 Service Pack 6 68 March 29 2004 Old version no longer maintained September 30 2005 69 70 Visual Studio NET 2002 Rainier 71 February 13 2002 72 7 0 Service Pack 1 73 March 8 2005 Old version no longer maintained July 14 2009 74 1 0 Visual Studio NET 2003 Everett 75 April 24 2003 76 7 1 Service Pack 1 77 August 15 2006 Old version no longer maintained October 8 2013 78 1 1 Visual Studio 2005 Whidbey 79 November 7 2005 80 81 8 0 Service Pack 1 82 December 15 2006 Old version no longer maintained April 12 2016 83 2 0 Visual Studio 2008 Orcas 84 November 19 2007 85 86 9 0 Service Pack 1 87 August 11 2008 Old version no longer maintained April 10 2018 88 2 0 3 0 3 5 Visual Studio 2010 Dev10 89 April 12 2010 90 91 92 10 0 Service Pack 1 93 94 March 10 2011 Old version no longer maintained July 14 2020 95 2 0 4 0 Visual Studio 2012 Dev11 September 12 2012 96 97 98 11 0 Update 5 99 August 24 2015 Old version no longer maintained January 10 2023 100 2 0 4 5 Visual Studio 2013 Dev12 October 17 2013 101 102 12 0 Update 5 103 July 20 2015 Older version yet still maintained April 9 2024 100 2 0 4 5 1 Visual Studio 2015 Dev14 July 20 2015 103 104 14 0 Update 3 105 June 27 2016 Older version yet still maintained October 14 2025 100 2 0 4 6 1 1 0Visual Studio 2017 Dev15 March 7 2017 106 15 0 15 9 55 107 June 13 2023 Older version yet still maintained April 13 2027 100 3 5 4 7 2 1 0 1 1 2 0 2 1Visual Studio 2019 Dev16 April 2 2019 108 16 0 16 11 32 109 110 November 14 2023 Older version yet still maintained April 10 2029 111 3 5 4 8 2 1 2 2 3 0 3 1 5 0 112 Visual Studio 2022 Dev17 November 8 2021 113 17 0 17 8 3 114 December 5 2023 Current stable version January 13 2032 115 3 5 4 6 4 8 1 2 1 3 1 5 0 8 0 116 117 97 edit Microsoft first released Visual Studio codenamed Boston 59 for the city of the same name thus beginning the VS codenames related to places 59 in 1997 bundling many of its programming tools together for the first time Visual Studio 97 came in two editions Visual Studio Professional and Visual Studio Enterprise the professional edition has three CDs and the enterprise four CDs It included Visual J 1 1 for Java programming and introduced Visual InterDev for creating dynamically generated web sites using Active Server Pages citation needed There was a single companion CD that contained the Microsoft Developer Network library Visual Studio 97 was an attempt at using the same development environment for multiple languages Visual J InterDev and the MSDN Library had all been using the same environment called Developer Studio 118 Visual Studio was also sold as a bundle with the separate IDEs used for Visual C Visual Basic and Visual FoxPro 19 6 0 1998 edit The next version version 6 0 codenamed Aspen after the ski resort in Colorado citation needed was released in June 1998 and is the last version to run on the Windows 9x platform 119 Each version of each language in part also settled to v6 0 including Visual J which was prior v1 1 and Visual InterDev at the first release The v6 edition of Microsoft was the core environment for the next four releases to provide programmers with an integrated look alike platform This led Microsoft to transition the development on the platform independent NET Framework Visual Studio 6 0 was the last version to include Visual J 120 121 which Microsoft removed as part of a settlement with Sun Microsystems that required Microsoft Internet Explorer not to provide support for the Java Virtual Machine Visual Studio 6 0 came in two editions Professional and Enterprise 122 The Enterprise edition contained extra features not found in Professional edition including Application Performance Explorer Automation Manager Microsoft Visual Modeler RemAuto Connection Manager citation needed Visual Studio AnalyzerVisual Studio was also sold as a bundle with the separate IDEs used for Visual C Visual Basic and Visual FoxPro 19 NET 2002 edit nbsp The default start page of Visual Studio NET 2002 running on Windows XPMicrosoft released Visual Studio NET VS NET codenamed Rainier for Washington s Mount Rainier citation needed in February 2002 the beta version was released via Microsoft Developer Network in 2001 The biggest change was the introduction of a managed code development environment using the NET Framework Programs developed using NET are not compiled to machine language like C is for example but instead to a format called Microsoft Intermediate Language MSIL or Common Intermediate Language CIL When a CIL application executes it is compiled while being executed into the appropriate machine language for the platform it is being executed on thereby making code portable across several platforms Programs compiled into CIL can be executed only on platforms which have an implementation of Common Language Infrastructure It is possible to run CIL programs in Linux or Mac OS X using non Microsoft NET implementations like Mono and DotGNU This was the first version of Visual Studio to require an NT based Windows platform 123 The installer enforces this requirement and is the last version to support Windows NT 4 0 SP6a Visual Studio NET 2002 shipped in four editions Academic Professional Enterprise Developer and Enterprise Architect Microsoft introduced C C sharp a new programming language that targets NET It also introduced the successor to Visual J called Visual J Visual J programs use Java s language syntax However unlike Visual J programs Visual J programs can only target the NET Framework not the Java Virtual Machine that all other Java tools target Visual Basic changed drastically to fit the new framework and the new version was called Visual Basic NET Microsoft also added extensions to C called Managed Extensions for C so NET programs could be created in C Visual Studio NET can produce applications targeting Windows using the Windows Forms part of the NET Framework the Web using ASP NET and Web Services and with an add in portable devices using the NET Compact Framework The internal version number of Visual Studio NET 2002 is version 7 0 Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio NET 2002 in March 2005 124 NET 2003 edit nbsp Default start page of Visual Studio NET 2003 running on Windows XPIn April 2003 Microsoft introduced a minor upgrade to Visual Studio NET called Visual Studio NET 2003 codenamed Everett for the city of the same name citation needed It includes an upgrade to the NET Framework version 1 1 and is the first release to support developing programs for mobile devices using ASP NET or the NET Compact Framework The Visual C compiler s standards compliance improved especially in the area of partial template specialization Visual C Toolkit 2003 is a version of the same C compiler shipped with Visual Studio NET 2003 without the IDE that Microsoft made freely available As of 2010 update it is no longer available and the Express Editions have superseded it Visual Studio NET 2003 also supports Managed C which is the predecessor of C CLI The internal version number of Visual Studio NET 2003 is version 7 1 while the file format version is 8 0 125 Visual Studio NET 2003 drops support for Windows NT 4 0 and is the last version to support Windows 2000 versions below SP3 and Windows XP before SP2 Visual Studio NET 2003 shipped in five editions Academic Standard Professional Enterprise Developer and Enterprise Architect The Visual Studio NET 2003 Enterprise Architect edition includes an implementation of Microsoft Visio 2002 s modeling technologies including tools for creating Unified Modeling Language based visual representations of an application s architecture and an object role modeling ORM and logical database modeling solution Enterprise Templates were also introduced to help larger development teams standardize coding styles and enforce policies around component usage and property settings Service Pack 1 was released September 13 2006 126 2005 edit nbsp Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 Team Suite installation discVisual Studio 2005 codenamed Whidbey a reference to Whidbey Island in Puget Sound region citation needed was released online in October 2005 and to retail stores a few weeks later Microsoft removed the NET moniker from Visual Studio 2005 as well as every other product with NET in its name but it still primarily targets the NET Framework which was upgraded to version 2 0 It is the last version to run on Windows 2000 and also the last version able to target Windows 98 Windows Me and Windows Server 2003 RTM for C applications 127 128 Visual Studio 2005 s internal version number is 8 0 while the file format version is 9 0 125 Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2005 on December 14 2006 129 An additional update for Service Pack 1 that offers Windows Vista compatibility was made available on June 3 2007 130 Visual Studio 2005 was upgraded to support all the new features introduced in NET Framework 2 0 including generics and ASP NET 2 0 The IntelliSense feature in Visual Studio was upgraded for generics and new project types were added to support ASP NET web services Visual Studio 2005 additionally introduces support for a new task based build platform called Microsoft Build Engine MSBuild which employs a new XML based project file format 131 Visual Studio 2005 also includes a local web server separate from IIS that can host ASP NET applications during development and testing It also supports all SQL Server 2005 databases Database designers were upgraded to support the ADO NET 2 0 which is included with NET Framework 2 0 C also got a similar upgrade with the addition of C CLI which is slated to replace the use of Managed C 132 Other new features of Visual Studio 2005 include the Deployment Designer which allows application designs to be validated before deployments an improved environment for web publishing when combined with ASP NET 2 0 and load testing to see application performance under various sorts of user loads Starting with the 2005 edition Visual Studio also added extensive 64 bit support While the host development environment itself is only available as a 32 bit application Visual C 2005 supports compiling for x86 64 AMD64 and Intel 64 as well as IA 64 Itanium 133 The Platform SDK included 64 bit compilers and 64 bit versions of the libraries Microsoft also announced Visual Studio Tools for Applications as the successor to Visual Basic for Applications VBA and VSA Visual Studio for Applications VSTA 1 0 was released to manufacturing along with Office 2007 It is included with Office 2007 and is also part of the Visual Studio 2005 SDK VSTA consists of a customized IDE based on the Visual Studio 2005 IDE and a runtime that can be embedded in applications to expose its features via the NET object model Office 2007 applications continue to integrate with VBA except for InfoPath 2007 which integrates with VSTA Version 2 0 of VSTA based on Visual Studio 2008 was released in April 2008 134 It is significantly different from the first version including features such as dynamic programming and support for WPF WCF WF LINQ and NET 3 5 Framework 2008 edit Visual Studio 2008 135 and Visual Studio Team System 2008 136 137 codenamed Orcas a reference to Orcas Island also an island in Puget Sound region like Whidbey for the previous 2005 release were released to MSDN subscribers on November 19 2007 alongside NET Framework 3 5 The source code for the Visual Studio 2008 IDE is available under a shared source license to some of Microsoft s partners and ISVs 84 Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2008 on August 11 2008 138 The internal version number of Visual Studio 2008 is version 9 0 while the file format version is 10 0 Visual Studio 2008 is the last version able to target Windows XP SP2 Windows Server 2003 SP1 and Windows Vista RTM for C applications 139 Visual Studio 2008 is focused on development of Windows Vista 2007 Office system and Web applications For visual design a new Windows Presentation Foundation visual designer and a new HTML CSS editor influenced by Microsoft Expression Web are included J is not included Visual Studio 2008 requires NET 3 5 Framework and by default configures compiled assemblies to run on NET Framework 3 5 but it also supports multi targeting which lets the developers choose which version of the NET Framework out of 2 0 3 0 3 5 Silverlight CoreCLR or NET Compact Framework the assembly runs on Visual Studio 2008 also includes new code analysis tools including the new Code Metrics tool only in Team Edition and Team Suite Edition 140 For Visual C Visual Studio adds a new version of Microsoft Foundation Classes MFC 9 0 that adds support for the visual styles and UI controls introduced with Windows Vista 141 For native and managed code interoperability Visual C introduces the STL CLR which is a port of the C Standard Template Library STL containers and algorithms to managed code STL CLR defines STL like containers iterators and algorithms that work on C CLI managed objects 142 143 Visual Studio 2008 features include an XAML based designer codenamed Cider workflow designer LINQ to SQL designer for defining the type mappings and object encapsulation for SQL Server data XSLT debugger JavaScript Intellisense support JavaScript Debugging support support for UAC manifests a concurrent build system among others 144 It ships with an enhanced set of UI widgets both for Windows Forms and WPF It also includes a multithreaded build engine MSBuild to compile multiple source files and build the executable file in a project across multiple threads simultaneously It also includes support for compiling icon resources in PNG format introduced in Windows Vista An updated XML Schema designer was released separately some time after the release of Visual Studio 2008 145 Visual Studio Debugger includes features targeting easier debugging of multi threaded applications In debugging mode in the Threads window which lists all the threads hovering over a thread displays the stack trace of that thread in tooltips 146 The threads can directly be named and flagged for easier identification from that window itself 147 In addition in the code window along with indicating the location of the currently executing instruction in the current thread the currently executing instructions in other threads are also pointed out 147 148 The Visual Studio debugger supports integrated debugging of the NET 3 5 Framework Base Class Library BCL which can dynamically download the BCL source code and debug symbols and allow stepping into the BCL source during debugging 149 As of 2010 update a limited subset of the BCL source is available with more library support planned for later 2010 edit On April 12 2010 Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 codenamed Dev10 89 and NET Framework 4 150 151 It is the last version to support Windows XP SP3 Windows Server 2003 SP2 Windows Vista SP1 Windows Server 2008 below SP2 Windows 7 before SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 before SP1 The Visual Studio 2010 IDE was redesigned which according to Microsoft clears the UI organization and reduces clutter and complexity 152 The new IDE better supports multiple document windows and floating tool windows 152 while offering better multi monitor support The IDE shell has been rewritten using the Windows Presentation Foundation WPF whereas the internals have been redesigned using Managed Extensibility Framework MEF that offers more extensibility points than previous versions of the IDE that enabled add ins to modify the behavior of the IDE 153 The new multi paradigm ML variant F forms part of Visual Studio 2010 154 Visual Studio 2010 comes with NET Framework 4 and supports developing applications targeting Windows 7 152 It supports IBM Db2 and Oracle databases in addition to Microsoft SQL Server 152 It has integrated support for developing Microsoft Silverlight applications including an interactive designer 152 Visual Studio 2010 offers several tools to make parallel programming simpler in addition to the Parallel Extensions for the NET Framework and the Parallel Patterns Library for native code Visual Studio 2010 includes tools for debugging parallel applications The new tools allow the visualization of parallel Tasks and their runtime stacks 155 Tools for profiling parallel applications can be used for visualization of thread wait times and thread migrations across processor cores 156 Intel and Microsoft have jointly pledged support for a new Concurrency Runtime in Visual Studio 2010 157 and Intel has launched parallelism support in Parallel Studio as an add on for Visual Studio 158 The Visual Studio 2010 code editor now highlights references whenever a symbol is selected all other usages of the symbol are highlighted 159 It also offers a Quick Search feature to incrementally search across all symbols in C C and VB NET projects Quick Search supports substring matches and camelCase searches 159 The Call Hierarchy feature allows the developer to see all the methods that are called from a current method as well as the methods that call the current one 159 IntelliSense in Visual Studio supports a consume first mode which developers can opt into In this mode IntelliSense does not auto complete identifiers this allows the developer to use undefined identifiers like variable or method names and define those later Visual Studio 2010 can also help in this by automatically defining them if it can infer their types from usage 159 Current versions of Visual Studio have a known bug which makes IntelliSense unusable for projects using pure C not C 160 Visual Studio 2010 features a new Help System replacing the MSDN Library viewer The Help System is no longer based on Microsoft Help 2 and does not use Microsoft Document Explorer Dynamic help containing links to help items based on what the developer was doing at the time was removed in the final release 161 but can be added back using a download from Microsoft 162 Visual Studio 2010 no longer supports development for Windows Mobile prior to Windows Phone 7 Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 was released in March 2011 163 Ultimate 2010 edit Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 replaces Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite 164 It includes new modeling tools 165 such as the Architecture Explorer which graphically displays projects and classes and the relationships between them 166 167 It supports UML activity diagram component diagram logical class diagram sequence diagram and use case diagram 167 Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 also includes Test Impact Analysis which provides hints on which test cases are impacted by modifications to the source code without actually running the test cases 168 This speeds up testing by avoiding running unnecessary test cases Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 also includes a historical debugger for managed code called IntelliTrace Unlike a traditional debugger that records only the currently active stack IntelliTrace records all events such as prior function calls method parameters events and exceptions This allows the code execution to be rewound in case a breakpoint was not set where the error occurred 169 Debugging with IntelliTrace causes the application to run more slowly than debugging without it and uses more memory as additional data needs to be recorded Microsoft allows configuration of how much data should be recorded in effect allowing developers to balance the speed of execution and resource usage The Lab Management component of Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 uses virtualization to create a similar execution environment for testers and developers The virtual machines are tagged with checkpoints which can later be investigated for issues as well as to reproduce the issue 170 Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 also includes the capability to record test runs that capture the specific state of the operating environment as well as the precise steps used to run the test These steps can then be played back to reproduce issues 171 2012 edit nbsp Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 logoThe final build of Visual Studio 2012 was announced on August 1 2012 and the official launch event was held on September 12 2012 172 Unlike prior versions Visual Studio 2012 cannot record and play macros and the macro editor has been removed 173 New features include support for WinRT and C CX Component Extensions and C AMP GPGPU programming Semantic Colorization 174 On September 16 2011 a complete Developer Preview of Visual Studio 11 was published on Microsoft s website Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview requires Windows 7 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows 8 or later operating systems 175 Versions of Microsoft Foundation Class Library MFC and C runtime CRT included with this release cannot produce software that is compatible with Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 except by using native multi targeting and foregoing the newest libraries compilers and headers 176 However on June 15 2012 a blog post on the VC Team blog announced that based on customer feedback Microsoft would re introduce native support for Windows XP targets though not for XP as a development platform in a version of Visual C to be released later in the fall of 2012 177 Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 Visual Studio 2012 1 was released in November 2012 This update added support for Windows XP targets and also added other new tools and features e g improved diagnostics and testing support for Windows Store apps 178 On August 24 2011 a blog post by Sumit Kumar a Program Manager on the Visual C team listed some of the features of the upcoming version of the Visual Studio C IDE 179 Semantic colorization Improved syntax coloring various user defined or default colors for C syntax such as macros enumerations typenames and functions 179 Reference highlighting Selection of a symbol highlights all of the references to that symbol within scope 179 New Solution Explorer The new Solution Explorer allows for visualization of class and file hierarchies within a solution project It can search for calls to functions and uses of classes 179 Automatic display of IntelliSense list IntelliSense is automatically displayed whilst typing code as opposed to previous versions where it had to be explicitly invoked through use of certain operators i e the scope operator or shortcut keys Ctrl Space or Ctrl J 179 Member list filtering IntelliSense uses fuzzy logic to determine which functions variables types to display in the list 179 Code snippets Code snippets are included in IntelliSense to automatically generate relevant code based on the user s parameters custom code snippets can be created 179 The source code of Visual Studio 2012 consists of approximately 50 million lines of code 180 Interface backlash edit During Visual Studio 11 beta Microsoft eliminated the use of color within tools except in cases where color is used for notification or status change purposes However the use of color was returned after feedback demanding more contrast differentiation clarity and energy in the user interface 181 182 In the Visual Studio 2012 release candidate RC a major change to the interface is the use of all caps menu bar as part of the campaign to keep Visual Studio consistent with the direction of other Microsoft user interfaces and to provide added structure to the top menu bar area 183 The redesign was criticized for being hard to read and going against the trends started by developers to use CamelCase to make words stand out better 184 Some speculated that the root cause of the redesign was to incorporate the simplistic look and feel of Metro programs 185 However there exists a Windows Registry option to allow users to disable the all caps interface 186 2013 edit The preview for Visual Studio 2013 was announced at the Build 2013 conference and made available on June 26 2013 187 The Visual Studio 2013 RC Release Candidate was made available to developers on MSDN on September 9 2013 188 The final release of Visual Studio 2013 became available for download on October 17 2013 along with NET 4 5 1 189 Visual Studio 2013 officially launched on November 13 2013 at a virtual launch event keynoted by S Somasegar and hosted on events wbr visualstudio wbr com 190 Visual Studio 2013 Update 1 Visual Studio 2013 1 was released on January 20 2014 191 Visual Studio 2013 1 is a targeted update that addresses some key areas of customer feedback 192 Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 Visual Studio 2013 2 was released on May 12 2014 193 Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 was released on August 4 2014 With this update Visual Studio provides an option to disable the all caps menus which was introduced in VS2012 194 Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 Visual Studio 2013 4 was released on November 12 2014 195 Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 Visual Studio 2013 5 was released on July 20 2015 196 2015 edit Initially referred to as Visual Studio 14 the first Community Technology Preview CTP was released on June 3 2014 197 and the Release Candidate was released on April 29 2015 Visual Studio 2015 was officially announced as the final name on November 12 2014 198 Visual Studio 2015 RTM was released on July 20 2015 196 Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 was released on November 30 2015 196 Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 was released on March 30 2016 196 Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 was released on June 27 2016 196 Visual Studio 2015 is the last version to support Windows Vista SP2 Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows 8 2017 edit nbsp Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 logoInitially referred to as Visual Studio 15 it was released on March 7 2017 199 The first Preview was released on March 30 2016 200 Visual Studio 15 Preview 2 was released May 10 2016 201 202 Visual Studio 15 Preview 3 was released on July 7 2016 203 204 Visual Studio 15 Preview 4 was released on August 22 2016 205 206 Visual Studio 15 Preview 5 was released on October 5 2016 207 On November 14 2016 for a brief period of time Microsoft released a blog post revealing Visual Studio 2017 product name version alongside upcoming features 208 On November 16 2016 Visual Studio 2017 was announced as the final name 209 and Visual Studio 2017 RC was released 210 On March 7 2017 Visual Studio 2017 was released for general availability 210 On March 14 2017 first fix was released for Visual Studio 2017 due to failures during installation or opening solutions in the first release 210 On April 5 2017 Visual Studio 2017 15 1 was released and added support for targeting the NET Framework 4 7 On May 10 2017 Visual Studio 2017 15 2 was released and added a new workload Data Science and Analytical Applications Workload An update to fix the dark color theme was released on May 12 2017 On August 14 2017 Visual Studio 2017 15 3 was released and added support for targeting NET Core 2 0 An update 15 3 1 was released four days later to address a Git vulnerability with submodules CVE 2017 1000117 On October 10 2017 Visual Studio 15 4 was released 211 On December 4 2017 Visual Studio 15 5 was released This update contained major performance improvements new features as well as bug fixes 212 On March 6 2018 Visual Studio 15 6 was released It includes updates to unit testing and performance 213 On May 7 2018 Visual Studio 15 7 was released It included updates across the board including the installer editor debugger among others Almost all point releases the latest of which is 15 7 6 released August 2 2018 include security updates With the release of Visual Studio 2017 15 7 Visual C now conforms to the C 17 standard 39 On September 20 2018 Visual Studio 15 8 5 was released Tools for Xamarin now supports Xcode 10 214 Visual Studio 2017 offers new features like support for EditorConfig a coding style enforcement framework NGen support NET Core and Docker toolset Preview and Xamarin 4 3 Preview 210 It also has a XAML Editor improved IntelliSense live unit testing debugging enhancement and better IDE experience and productivity Additionally it is the last version of Visual Studio to support maintaining Windows 10 Mobile projects 215 2019 edit This section needs expansion You can help by adding to it June 2018 nbsp Visual Studio 2019 iconOn June 6 2018 Microsoft announced Visual Studio 2019 version 16 216 On December 4 2018 Visual Studio 2019 Preview 1 was released 217 On January 24 2019 Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2 was released 218 On February 13 2019 Visual Studio 2019 Preview 3 was released 219 On February 27 2019 Visual Studio 2019 RC was released 220 It is generally available GA since April 2 2019 and available for download 108 2022 edit This section needs expansion You can help by adding to it December 2022 On April 19 2021 Microsoft announced Visual Studio 2022 version 17 221 222 It is the first version to run as a 64 bit process allowing Visual Studio main process to access more than 4 GB of memory preventing out of memory exceptions which could occur with large projects On June 17 2021 Visual Studio 2022 Preview 1 was released 223 On July 14 2021 Visual Studio 2022 Preview 2 was released 224 On August 10 2021 Visual Studio 2022 Preview 3 was released 225 On September 14 2021 Visual Studio 2022 Preview 4 was released 226 On October 12 2021 Visual Studio 2022 RC and Preview 5 was released while setting November 8 2021 for its general availability 227 It is generally available GA since November 8 2021 and available for download 228 Related products editAzure DevOps Services edit See also Azure DevOps Server On November 13 2013 Microsoft announced the release of a software as a service offering of Visual Studio on Microsoft Azure platform at the time Microsoft called it Visual Studio Online Previously announced as Team Foundation Services it expanded over the on premises Team Foundation Server TFS now known as Azure DevOps Server by making it available on the Internet and implementing a rolling release model 229 230 Customers could use Azure portal to subscribe to Visual Studio Online Subscribers receive a hosted Git compatible version control system a load testing service a telemetry service and an in browser code editor codenamed Monaco 231 During the Connect 2015 developer event on November 18 2015 Microsoft announced that the service was rebranded as Visual Studio Team Services VSTS 232 On September 10 2018 Microsoft announced another rebranding of the service this time to Azure DevOps Services 45 Microsoft offers Stakeholder Basic and Visual Studio subscriber access levels for Azure DevOps Services The Basic plan is free of charge for up to five users Users with a Visual Studio subscription can be added to a plan with no additional charge 233 Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management edit Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management ALM is a collection of integrated software development tools developed by Microsoft These tools currently consist of the IDE Visual Studio 2015 Community and greater editions server Team Foundation Server and cloud services Visual Studio Team Services 234 Visual Studio ALM supports team based development and collaboration Agile project management DevOps source control packaging continuous development automated testing release management continuous delivery and reporting tools for apps and services 235 In Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008 the brand was known as Microsoft Visual Studio Team System VSTS In October 2009 the Team System brand was renamed 165 236 Visual Studio ALM with the Visual Studio 2010 codenamed Rosario release 237 Visual Studio Team Services debuted as Visual Studio Online in 2013 and was renamed in 2015 238 Visual Studio Lab Management edit Visual Studio Lab Management is a software development tool developed by Microsoft for software testers to create and manage virtual environments Lab Management extends the existing Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management platform to enable an integrated Hyper V based test lab Since Visual Studio 2012 it is already shipped as a part of it and can be set up after Azure DevOps and SCVMM are integrated 239 Visual Studio LightSwitch edit Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch is an extension and framework specifically tailored for creating line of business applications built on existing NET technologies and Microsoft platforms The applications produced are architecturally 3 tier the user interface runs on either Microsoft Silverlight or HTML 5 client 240 or as a SharePoint 2013 app 241 the logic and data access tier is built on WCF Data Services and exposed as an OData feed hosted 242 in ASP NET and the primary data storage supports Microsoft SQL Server Express Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft SQL Azure LightSwitch also supports other 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