Visual Studio is the technology that software developers use to write programs for Windows.

Visual Studio however does not support using different languages in one assembly.

Visual Studio 97 was Microsoft's first attempt at using the same development environment for multiple languages.

Visual Studio 2005 was upgraded to support all the new features introduced in .

The last version, shipping with Visual Studio 2005, will be supported until 2015.

Visual Studio 6.0 was the last release to include J++.

Visual Studio tries to semi-automate programming, which real hackers may hate.

Third party components that shipped with Visual Studio 6.0 are not included in this support statement.

Visual Studio can be extended in many ways.

Visual Studio 2008 comes with a few macro samples to get started.