session 1: MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO

Microsoft visual studio is an integrated devleopment environment(IDE) developed by microsoft. It can be used to develop console/graphical interface applications, websites, web services and other web applications. Apart from supporting all the platforms of Microsoft Windows,Windows Mobile, Windows CE, .NET Framework, .NET Compact Framework and Microsoft Silverlight, it admits a code editor that supports Intellisense(implementation of autocompletion) and code refactoring(enables code alteration of a program inorder to simplify its structure,improve its readibility while preserving its functionality).The integrated debugger provided can be utilized as a source-level debugger and a machine-level debugger. Built-in languages include C/C++ (via Visual C++), VB.NET (via Visual Basic .NET), and C# (via Visual C#). Support for other languages such as Chrome, F#, Python, and Ruby among others has been made available via language services which are to be installed separately. It also supports XML/XSLT, HTML/XHTML, JavaScript and CSS.
version history
1. visual studio 97 ----> 1997
2. visual studio 6.0----> 1998
3. visual studio .NET(2002)----> 2002
4. visual studio .NET(2003)----> 2003
5. visual studio 2005
6. visual studio 2008
7. visual studio 2010 (being developed)