

The first Visual Studio to integrate C++ and Visual Basic (in. Visual Studio itself was introduced in 1997, though it was more of a bundle of different Windows development tools initially. Perhaps inspired by VB, Microsoft delivered Visual C++ 1.0 in 1993, replacing the little-used PWB. The company also came up Visual Basic (VB, first released 1991), which unlike Microsoft C++ had a Windows IDE. In the early days, Windows applications were coded and compiled using MS-DOS, and there was a MS-DOS IDE called Programmer's Workbench (PWB, first released 1989). The Visual Studio idea came from two main sources. Microsoft always had its own programming languages and tools, beginning with Microsoft Basic in 1975 and Microsoft C 1.0 in 1983.

You can filter by using the Platform list and the Project type list, too.

You can also filter your search for a specific programming language by using the Language drop-down list. To see different templates, choose different workloads. The list of templates depends on the workloads that you chose during installation. In the template search box, enter the type of app you want to create to see a list of available templates. On the start window, choose Create a new project. After your Visual Studio installation is complete, select the Launch button to get started developing with Visual Studio.
