IDEs for C# development
Whenever I work in a new or unfamiliar language, the first thing I want to know about is the tools used to work in that language. Good tools make learning and working with the language much easier. Microsoft realized this, and when they released the C# language and the accompanying .NET runtime, they also released Visual Studio – an IDE written specifically for use with C# and another very popular programming language called Visual Basic.
Visual Basic was Visual Studio’s predecessor. During the 1990s, Visual Basic was the most widely used development language product from Microsoft. The company also sold an IDE geared for C++ development called Visual C++, and briefly and ineffectively dabbled in Java with Visual J++. Of these toolkits, Visual Basic was by far the most important. At the time, Visual C++ was used by “serious” developers. Microsoft Windows is written in C and C++, so naturally, the tooling in Visual C++ was first...
