Title: Visual Studio
Course: CPS 120: Introduction to Computer Science ~ Master (Aug/2015) OLD > Section: Learning Units

Visual Studio is a comprehensive collection of tools and services to help you create a wide variety of apps, both for the Microsoft platform and beyond. Microsoft Visual Studio also connects all of your projects, and teams.  It is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE). It was released in November 2007.

Visual Studio enables us to create several types of applications including:

Type | User interacts with application via …
Console | Command line
Windows | Graphical user interface using WIMP (windows, icons, menus, a pointing device)
Web | Internet browser