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The Visual Studio development system is a comprehensive suite of tools designed to help software developers create innovative, next-generation applications. It’s the perfect work environment for application developers.
With Visual Studio , you can easily use your development skills to target Windows, the world’s most widely used operating system. Integrate peripherals, local storage, and heterogeneous systems to deliver differentiated applications—and combine the performance of the rich client with the best of the Web.

Develop for multiple platforms

Develop applications for Windows, the cloud, phones, Microsoft Office, and Microsoft SharePoint with the same development environment. Plus, you can automatically adapt web applications to target mobile devices with enhanced ASP.NET support for mobile browsers.

Create modern web applications

Develop interactive web applications more easily and efficiently with new tools for JavaScript and jQuery. You can identify problems faster and make changes on-the-fly while interacting with your application with the new Page Inspector capability. You can also build data-driven web applications with new ASP.NET model binding, client-side validation, and HTML5 forms.

Powerful, design-centric tools

The updated Microsoft Blend for Visual Studio includes new, design centric tools for XAML and HTML5 applications. In addition, you can experience the application while you build it with the new interactive mode, significantly reducing the time it takes to create highly interactive applications.

Develop fast and fluid experiences

Build responsive user interfaces and scalable services using additions within Microsoft Visual C#, Visual Basic .NET, and Visual C++ for asynchronous programming that greatly simplify traditional thread-based code.

Go to the next level with html5

Take standard development to the next level with new editors that make HTML5 and CSS3 development more productive and enrich traditional HTML development.

Develop with the best business platforms for customers

Extend current applications to the cloud using Windows Azure™—building and deploying via project templates, a seamless debugging experience, and easy publishing.

Use the tools your users know

The capabilities for Microsoft Office and Microsoft SharePoint development make it perfect for creating custom solutions that integrate with the productivity tools.

Improve productivity with an integrated solution

Use a single tool for all of your development tasks including coding, debugging, and deploying to improve productivity and simplify the development process. Maintain and enhance legacy applications through compatibility with Visual Studio 2010, while you build for the latest platforms.

Speed and simplify efforts with a new ide

Perform everyday tasks faster with the new user interface that makes it easier for you to navigate through the code and provides quicker access to common tasks.
Quickly create quality desktop and web business applications

Build and deploy professional-quality desktop and web applications and services with Microsoft LightSwitch for Visual Studio, a flexible, rapid application-development tool.

Centralize your team collaboration

With Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Professional 2012, you and your team can use a centralized source code, work item, and bug tracking repository in the context of your tasks. This will help to bring your teams together to deliver value that exceeds your customers’ expectations.