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9 unusual facts about Microsoft Visual Studio


CodeView

Today, the debugger is considered an integrated and essential part of the Microsoft Visual Studio family of products, and owes its true roots to CodeView, and the enhancements seen in version 4.x specifically.

Fault Simulator

DevPartner Fault Simulator works with applications written for Microsoft Windows and .NET platforms and is integrated with the Microsoft Visual Studio development environment.

Game development tool

While many COTS packages are used in the production of games—such as 3D packages like Maya and 3D Studio Max, graphic editors like Photoshop and IDEs like Microsoft Visual Studio—they are not considered solely game development tools since they have uses beyond game development.

Hot swapping

Microsoft Visual Studio supports a kind of hot swapping called Edit and Continue, which is supported by C#, VB.NET and C/C++ when running under a debugger.

Koders

In addition to their web-based search engine, Koders provided a plug-in for the IDE Eclipse and an add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio.

MetaEdit+

MetaEdit+ 5.0 was released in December 2012, with Eclipse and Visual Studio integration, dynamic symbols, enhanced graphics, and graphical viewing of changes.

TracExplorer

TracExplorer is a Trac client, implemented as an addin for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, 2008 and 2010.

WebSharper

WebSharper can also be used with Visual Studio 2008/2010/2012 templates with full ASP.NET integration and with MonoDevelop.

Who Is To Blame?

Who Is To Blame is a utility that processes the warnings/errors from Microsoft Visual Studio and then uses the Subversion (SVN) Blame tool to generate a report of which software developer added/amended the line causing the warning/error.


TypeScript

Early after the creation of the language, Miguel de Icaza praised the language itself, and criticized the lack of mature IDE support apart from Microsoft Visual Studio, which is not available on Linux and OSX.

VI Technology

The enterprise test solution consists of a server module built on Microsoft SQL Server database with extensions for SQL Server Reporting Services and interfaces to standard automated test software including National Instruments LabVIEW, TestStand, LabWindows/CVI, and Microsoft Visual Studio .


see also

Quiesce

Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server supports quiesce functionality by using the TFS Service Control command-line utility.