About Microsoft Visual Studio Overview "The Microsoft Visual Studio development system is a suite of development tools designed to aid software developers - whether they are novices or seasoned ...

With Visual Studio, you can create many different types of projects, such as .NET applications programmed with the Visual Basic language and standalone Windows and mobile Visual Basic programs.

Launch Microsoft Visual Studio and open one of your Visual Basic projects. Double-click that project's start-up form. Visual Studio displays the form in the Design window.

With the release of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4, it's time for Visual Basic developers to start leveraging the new capabilities of Visual Basic 2010.

A survey of programmers using Microsoft's Visual Basic language finds that many are considering a move to more modern languages, like Java and C#.