An integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft for coding Windows applications. Visual Studio is Microsoft's flagship language product, which enables any programming language to be included when constructed as a VSPackage. For example, Visual Studio is used to code programs in C#, C++, Visual Basic, F#, Python and Java.
Discontinued languages are Visual FoxPro, Visual SourceSafe source control language and Visual J++/J#. Visual InterDev, which used Active Server Pages (ASPs) was replaced with Visual Web Designer. See
ASP.
The Community Edition is a version of Visual Studio freely available to everyone, whereas Visual Studio is a paid product. See
Visual Studio .NET and
integrated development environment.