Visual Studio is an integrated development environment from Microsoft, in which programmers can write, test and debug software in one application. The first version brought together several of the company's separate language tools, among them Visual Basic, Visual C++ and Visual J++, into a suite. In the early 2000s it became the main tool for the .NET Framework and for languages such as C#. It has been updated many times since, adding support for web, mobile and cloud development, and Microsoft later released a separate, lighter editor called Visual Studio Code that became extremely popular. Visual Studio remains one of the most widely used environments for Windows software.
Before and after
- 7 November 1996Launch of Mars Global Surveyor
- 4 December 1996Launch of Mars Pathfinder
- 17 December 1996Creation of Cascading Style Sheets
- 20 December 1996Death of Carl Sagan
- 1997Release of Visual Studio
- from 1997 to 2014Founding of G8
- 1997Establishment of Talampaya National Park
- 1997Establishment of Lorentz National Park
- 1997Founding of United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
More in Science & technology
- 1949Discovery of berkelium
- 1952Discovery of einsteinium
- December 1952Discovery of fermium
- 1958Discovery of nobelium
- c. 1980sInvention of laptop
- 9 November 1994Discovery of darmstadtium
The era
This moment belongs to the Contemporary world (1945 CE to today), the world since 1945. You can also browse everything in the 20th century.