About Visual Studio Product

Visual Studio is a tool provided by the Microsoft to develop .NET or(Microsoft based) application. Using this tool will easy for us to create, maintain, debug and to deploy a project like Web applications, XML Web Services, and traditional client applications. The single tool include all the Microsoft technologies like ASP.NET, Silverlight, AJAX, Windows application, etc for the developers.

For more information in detail refer this link http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa187919.aspx

Visual Studio Editions
1) Express Edition
2) Standard Edition
3) Professional Edition
4) Visual Studio Tools For office

The above different kinds of product are classified based on the features. To more in detail about the feature that are available on each product check this link http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/zcbsd3cz%28VS.80%29.aspx (This is for VS2005)

To see different kinds of product available in VS2008 use the below link
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/default.mspx

The below mentioned product are free for download and install it. The below product we call it as express edition.

In the express editions different kinds of product are available
1) Visual Basic 2008 Express with SP1
2) Visual C# 2008 Express with SP1
3) Visual C++ 2008 Express with SP1
4) Visual Web Developer 2008 Express with SP1

The above four application are for developing windows application and one specially for developing games

The another Express edition for developers is SQL Server 2008 Express

To know more about the Express Edition Products check the below links http://www.microsoft.com/express/product/ .In the same link the downloads are also available.

For developers the msdn Site is : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/default.aspx . This site keep you up-to-date with current information’s

Before going to install the Visual studio refer this link first http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/e2h7fzkw.aspx

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