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Microsoft Visual Studio Express was a set of integrated development environments (IDEs) that Microsoft developed and released free of charge. They are function-limited version of the non-free Visual Studio and require mandatory registration. [3] Express editions started with Visual Studio 2005.
Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 was released on March 30, 2016. [197] Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 was released on June 27, 2016. [197] Visual Studio 2015 is the first version to support Windows 10 and the last version to support Windows 8, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and Windows Server 2012; it's also the last version to support targeting Windows XP ...
Platform SDK is the successor of the original Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 3.1x and Microsoft Win32 SDK for Windows 9x.It was released in 1999 and is the oldest SDK. Platform SDK contains compilers, tools, documentations, header files, libraries and samples needed for software development on IA-32, x64 and IA-64 CPU architectures. .
Microsoft Visual C++ (MSVC) is a compiler for the C, C++, C++/CLI and C++/CX programming languages by Microsoft.MSVC is proprietary software; it was originally a standalone product but later became a part of Visual Studio and made available in both trialware and freeware forms.
Previously, the WDK was known as the Driver Development Kit (DDK) [4] and supported Windows Driver Model (WDM) development. It got its current name when Microsoft released Windows Vista and added the following previously separated tools to the kit: Installable File System Kit (IFS Kit), Driver Test Manager (DTM), though DTM was later renamed and removed from WDK again.
Microsoft Visual Studio support for C++/WinRT is provided by an officially-supported extension. [5] C++/WinRT was originally released in 2015 by Kenny Kerr, who shortly afterward joined Microsoft. [6] C++/WinRT is now Microsoft's recommended replacement for both the Windows Runtime C++ Template Library (WRL), and for C++/CX. [4]
Microsoft Blend for Visual Studio (formerly Microsoft Expression Blend) is a user interface design tool developed and sold by Microsoft for creating graphical interfaces for web and desktop applications that blend the features of these two types of applications.
Visual Basic (VB) before .NET, sometimes referred to as Classic Visual Basic, [1] [2] is a third-generation programming language, based on BASIC, and an integrated development environment (IDE), from Microsoft for Windows known for supporting rapid application development (RAD) of graphical user interface (GUI) applications, event-driven programming and both consumption and development of ...