Visual Studio is the exploitation environment that Microsoft company debuts. It is the most popular Windows platform application develop environment at present. This platform already arrives at 8.0 editions –-‘Visual Studio 2005’ .Visual Studio can be used to establish Windows application and network application under Windows platform , It also can be used to establish network service , intelligence equipment application and Office plug in connector.

‘Visual Studio 97’ is the earliest Visual Studio edition. It contain ‘Visual Basic 5.0’ and ‘Visual C++ 5.0’ which face Windows. It also contains Java Visual J++ which faces Java and be geared to the needs of data base development ‘Visual FoxPro’. It inclusion ‘InterDev’ which needed by DHTML (Dynamic HTML). Among them, Visual Basic and Visual FoxPro use single-handed exploitation environment, other exploitation language uses unified exploitation environment.

In 1998 years, Microsoft Company announced Visual Studio6.0. All language exploitation environment edition rose to 6.0. This was also the final publish by Visual Basic, From the next edition --(7.0) began , ‘Microsoft Basic’ has evolved to one kind of new language --‘Microsoft Basic. NET’.

2002 years, with ‘NET slogan’ lodged and Windows XP/Office XP published, ‘Visual studio. NET (7.0 editions)’ was published by Microsoft. NET (civil edition is 7.0). In this the edition, Microsoft has peeled off Visual FoxPro and canceled Visual InterDev at the same time, as a single-handed exploitation environment.  Visual FoxPro7.0 came into the market. Meanwhile, Microsoft has led into trusteeship code mechanism which was build upon frame NET. (Edition 1.0's), and also a new language ‘C #’. ‘C #’ was a modern languages which was build upon C + + and the Java basis, It was a language using NET frame.

The aim of Net’s common Language Runtime (CLR) is supporting module developed by different language in the same project. All CLR support code changed the executable CLR machine code then working. Visual Basic, Visual C + + are all expanded the exploitation environment being to support trusteeship code. Visual J + + also becomes Visual J #. The latter grammar is just the same with JAVA in grammar, But it face NET Framework not Java Virtual Machine.

In 2003, Microsoft revised part on ‘Visual Studio 2002’ and published with name of ‘Visual studio 2003’ (civil edition number is 7.1). It was the procedure using the unification model language (UML) application frame, being led into at the same time includes Visio moving equipment support and the enterprise model printing plate.  The NET frame also escalates arrived at 1.1.

In 2005, Microsoft published Visual Studio 2005.  The word ‘NET’ was wiped away from various languages, but this edition Visual Studio was still facing on NET frame (edition 2.0). The edition Visual Studio contains a lot of other editions, is geared to the needs of diversity respectively. Provide the Visual Studio Express free at the same time forever.

With Windows Vista and Office 2007 will publish soon, Visual Studio 9 also gradually came to the top. At present, we can true that Visual Studio 9 holds the AJax technology that build on the basis of DHTML . The dynamic and asynchronous client server Web page technology which brought forward by Visual InterDev times not being popular for so like Microsoft expects on that year, On the contrary with the applying of GMail, It become a main network applications. Simultaneous Visual Studio 9 programming would hold strongly out database and new program model base on the work stream (Workflow). Estimate that for the unification keeping with Office series, Visual Studio 9's names is Visual Studio 2007.