I have used Microsoft Visual Studio at various companies over the years,
starting with Visual Basic 3 to create simple, stand-alone Windows
applications, then later using Visual Basic 5 and 6 for multitiered
development. More recently, I've used Visual C++ to create a commercial
application, and have recently been doing extensive .NET development using C#
for both WinForms and ASP.NET development.
In all of these development environments, I've used the Visual Studio IDE as
the primary tool for editing source code, testing, debugging, etc. Back with
VB3, it was fairly simple to build the application as well with the IDE,
because I was only building single executables (without even the need for an
installer). As I progressed into more complex projects using components, the... (more)