A brief history of VS and its flavors
VS 2022 is version 13 of this application created by Microsoft. VS has been consolidated among developers for having a friendly user experience, good support with regular updates, and powerful tools for writing clean and scalable code. VS has support for many technologies and platforms. For many developers, VS is the ultimate tool for the creation of web, mobile, and desktop projects, as we will see throughout this book.
To understand the evolution of VS, we must examine its history and timeline.
VS 6.0 was released in 1997, and it was the first version of this tool. This version was created to work with Visual Basic 6.0. Then, in 2002, a new version was released, which included compatibility with .NET and C# (a new programming language at that time). Since then, it’s been the favorite tool for .NET developers.
Since the 2012 version, the development team has implemented a new look and feel and introduced many improvements in the...