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Visual Basic
legacy programming language by Microsoft
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software platform developed by Microsoft
Visual C++
compiler (and formerly a standalone IDE) by Microsoft
Visual FoxPro
programming language
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The .NET platform (pronounced as "dot net"; formerly named .NET Core) is a free and open-source, managed computer software framework for Windows, Linux, and macOS operating systems. It is a cross-platform successor to the .NET Framework. The project is mainly developed by Microsoft employees by way of the .NET Foundation and is today released under an MIT License.
Microsoft XNA
platform for video game development offered by Microsoft
Windows Insider
Microsoft Windows open software testing program
Microsoft BASIC
foundation product of the Microsoft company
Blazor
Blazor is a free and open-source web framework that enables developers to create web user interfaces (UI) based on components, using C# and HTML. It is being developed by Microsoft, as part of the ASP.NET Core web app framework.
Microsoft Macro Assembler
x86 assembler that uses the Intel syntax for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows

FoxPro
thumb|right|150px|Cover of the FoxPro 2.6 Developer's Guide
FoxPro is a text-based procedurally oriented programming language and database management system (DBMS), and it is also an object-oriented programming language, originally published by Fox Software and later by Microsoft, for MS-DOS, Windows, Macintosh, and UNIX. The final published release of FoxPro was 2.6. Development continued under the Visual FoxPro label, which in turn was discontinued in 2007.

Microsoft WebMatrix
HTML editor, website builder, IDE and source control system client for web development
Microsoft Web Platform Installer
WiX
Windows Installer XML Toolset (WiX, pronounced "wicks") is a free software toolset that builds Windows Installer packages from XML. It consists of a command-line environment that developers may integrate into their build processes to build MSI and MSM packages. WiX was the first Microsoft project to be released under an open-source license, the Common Public License. It was also the first Microsoft project to be hosted on an external website.
Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio
Microsoft Windows SDK
software development kit
FxCop
FxCop is a free static code analysis tool from Microsoft that checks .NET managed code assemblies for conformance to Microsoft's .NET Framework Design Guidelines.
Windows Driver Kit
software toolset from Microsoft that enables the development of device drivers for the Microsoft Windows platform
intelligent code completion
context-aware code completion feature in programming environments
CodeView
CodeView is a standalone debugger created by David Norris at Microsoft in 1985 as part of its development toolset. It originally shipped with Microsoft C 4.0 and later. It also shipped with Visual Basic for MS-DOS, Microsoft BASIC PDS, and a number of other Microsoft language products. It was one of the first debuggers for MS-DOS to be full-screen oriented, rather than line-oriented (as Microsoft's predecessors DEBUG and SYMDEB or Digital Research's SID).
Microsoft Power Platform
Family of business software products by Microsoft
Microsoft Solutions Framework
for delivering information technology solutions