Microsoft Visual Studio

legacy programming language by Microsoft

integrated development environment

ASP.NET is a server-side web-application framework designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. It was developed by Microsoft to allow programmers to build dynamic web sites, applications and services. The name stands for Active Server Pages Network Enabled Technologies.

programming language for .NET

source code editor developed by Microsoft

compiler (and formerly a standalone IDE) by Microsoft

programming language

Microsoft's discontinued implementation of Java

software for version control

C++/CLI is a variant of the C++ programming language, modified for Common Language Infrastructure. It has been part of Visual Studio 2005 and later, and provides interoperability with other .NET languages such as C#. Microsoft created C++/CLI to supersede Managed Extensions for C++. In December 2005, Ecma International published C++/CLI specifications as the ECMA-372 standard.

source code management software

thumb|387px|Installation of a ClickOnce application ClickOnce is a component of Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 and later, and supports deploying applications made with Windows Forms or Windows Presentation Foundation. It is similar to Java Web Start for the Java Platform or Zero Install for Linux.

integrated development environment

Microsoft Build Engine, or MSBuild, is a set of free and open-source build tools for managed code under the Common Language Infrastructure as well as native C and C++ code. It was first released in 2003 and was a part of .NET Framework. MSBuild is included with Visual Studio, but can also be run independently through MSBuild's command-line interface.

Programming syntax for ASP.NET

development tools for Microsoft Office

context-aware code completion feature in programming environments

now-deprecated set of language extensions for C++