Product name
Codename
Internal version Supported .NET
Framework versions
Release date
Visual Studio
N/A
4.0
N/A
April 1995
Visual Studio 97
Boston
5.0
N/A
February 1997
Visual Studio 6.0
Aspen
6.0
N/A
June 1998
Visual Studio .NET (2002)
Rainier
7.0
1.0
February 13, 2002
Visual Studio .NET 2003
Everett
7.1
1.1
April 24, 2003
Visual Studio 2005
Whidbey
8.0
2.0, 3.0
November 7, 2005
Visual Studio 2008
Orcas
9.0
2.0, 3.0, 3.5
November 19, 2007
Visual Studio 2010
Dev10/Rosario
10.0
2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0
April 12, 2010
Visual Studio 2012
Dev11
11.0
2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5
September 12, 2012
Visual Studio 2013
Dev12
12.0
2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 4.5.1
October 17, 2013
Visual Studio 97
Microsoft first released Visual Studio (codenamed Boston for the city of the same name, thus beginning the VS codenames related to places) in 1997, bundling many of its programming tools together for the first time.
Two editions:
Visual Studio Professional (3 CDs)
Visual Studio Enterprise (4 CDs). It included Visual J++ 1.1 for Java programming and introduced Visual InterDev for creating dynamically generated web sites using Active Server Pages
Visual Studio 97 was Microsoft's first attempt at using the same development environment for multiple languages. Visual J++, InterDev, and the MSDN Library had all been using the same 'environment', called Developer Studio.
Visual Studio 6.0 (1998)
The next version, version 6.0 (codenamed Aspen, after the ski resort in Colorado), was released in June 1998 and is the last version to run on the Windows 9xplatform. Each version of each language in part also settled to v6.0, including Visual J++ which was prior v1.1, and Visual InterDev at the 1st release. The v6 edition of Microsoft was the core environment for the next four releases to provide programmers with an integrated look-alike platform. This led Microsoft to transition the development