Visual Studio
The Visual Studio is an IDE (integrated development environment) from Microsoft, which is used to develop web apps, webservices, websites and mobile apps. It uses Microsoft software development platforms like windows api, windows forms, windows presentation foundation (wpf), windows store and Microsoft silverlight. Visual Studio contains a code editor supporting intelliense as well as code refactoring. Integrated debugger in the visual studio works as a source-level debugger and a machine-level debugger. Built-in tools used in Visual Studio are a code profiler, designer for building GUI applications, web designer, class designer and database schema designer. Visual Studio accepts plug-ins, which improve the functionality at almost every level-including adding support for source control systems (like subversion, git etc) and adding new tool sets like editors and visual designers for domain specific languages or tool sets for other aspects of the software development life cycle.
Visual studio supports 36 different programming languages. Built-in languages that supported in Visual Studio are c#, f#, visual basic .net, javascript, xml, html, css etc. It supportS other languages also such as python ruby etc. Microsoft Visual Studio is available in following editions.
Community
Community edition is the basic edition of visual studio ,is available free of charge. The slogan for community edition is “free, fully-featured IDE for students, open-source and individual developers”.
Professional
As of visual studio 2010, the professional edition is the entry level commercial edition of visual studio. It provides an IDE for all supported development languages. MSDN support is available as MSDN essentials or the full MSDN library depending on licensing. It supports xml and xslt editing and can create deployment packages.It includes tools like server explorer and integration with Microsoft SQL server also.
Enterprise
In addition to the features provided by the Professional edition the enterprise edition provides a new set of software development, database development collaboration metrics architecture testing and reporting tools. The currently supported visual studio version is 2019.
