“If you create software development tools, you’ll want to consider building on the Visual Studio 2008 Shell. A streamlined Visual Studio development environment, the Visual Studio Shell ...

Visual Studio Shell is intended to allow developers to build Visual Studio functionality atop their own vertical tools, as well as integrating various languages such as Fortran, Cobol, Ruby and PHP.

On Jan. 17, 2018, Microsoft's Scott Hanselman asked Visual Studio developers if they would like a PowerShell prompt with pre-set PATH and Environment variables baked right into the IDE. They said yes.

Developers can use CShell alongside Visual Studio. Buhler said that it’s more lightweight, so users don’t need to start up Visual Studio every time they wish to test something, but CShell is ...

Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code’s PowerShell tooling is designed primarily to work with the PowerShell 7.2 long-term support release, though the older PowerShell 5.1 is still supported for ...

A feature called "multitargeting" enables Visual Studio 2008 to be used for development on any .Net Framework 2.0 platform or higher, up through the .Net Framework 3.5 version that will ship ...

Microsoft's Bing Developer Assistant for Visual Studio lets developers find and reuse millions of code snippets and samples from within the IDE.

Visual Studio Shell is intended to allow developers to build Visual Studio functionality atop their own vertical tools, as well as integrating various languages such as Fortran, Cobol, Ruby and PHP.

Visual Studio Shell is intended to allow developers to build Visual Studio functionality atop their own vertical tools, as well as integrating various languages such as Fortran, Cobol, Ruby and PHP.

Microsoft launched Visual Studio Shell at its TechEd conference in Orlando, Fla. Visual Studio Shell is intended to allow developers to build Visual Studio functionality atop their own vertical tools, ...