Wow, Visual Studio is 20 years old?

Leng Vang

Time flies. It sure doesn't feel that long ago.

kmoorevs

It is still probably the best $189 I ever spent! (as far as roi) :)

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raddevus

Actually, I believe it is older than that. I used it for an app under Windows 95. (Visual C++ / MFC). Back when it was called Visual Studio 1.x, 2.x, etc. Only in 2000, I think did they start calling it Visual Studio 20xx. Just thought it was interesting. Edit I am wrong. I guess it was called something different than what I was thinking back then. Hmmm... Microsoft Visual Studio - Wikipedia[^] Edit 2 I guess this is what I'm thinking about... Visual C++ 2.0, which included MFC 3.0, was the first version to be 32-bit only. In many ways, this Visual C++ 2.x also supported Win32s development.... Visual C++ 2.1 and 2.2 were updates for 2.0 available through subscription. Visual C++ 4.0, released on 1995-12-11[12] introduced the Developer Studio IDE from Visual C++ - Wikipedia[^] I

Maximilien

"Visual Studio" was born in 1997. [Microsoft Visual Studio - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft\_Visual\_Studio#History) "Visual C++" was born in 1993 [Visual C++ - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual\_C%2B%2B) And before that, there were multiple revision of Microsoft C and Microsoft C/C++ (from 1983-ish)

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Richard Deeming

Not according to Wikipedia:

Microsoft Visual Studio - Wikipedia[^]:

Microsoft first released Visual Studio ... in 1997

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raddevus

Yeah, Microsoft C++ used that IDE all the way back in 1993-4-5 and I was thinking it was named Visual Studio but probably not. I think it was just called Visual C++. The old IDE been around a long time. I remember Visual Basic 1.x released and was a separate IDE you installed and used. Interesting.

raddevus

Yeah, it's interesting history. Do you remember Visual Interdev for IIS web extension development? It was yet another separated IDE. All those memories collapse together and it seems like I've been using Visual Studio all the way back. :)

Richard Deeming

raddevus wrote:

Do you remember Visual Interdev for IIS web extension development?

Oh yes. I think I even used it once or twice. (That's probably why I still prefer to do web stuff in Notepad++!) :)

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raddevus

haha, agree 100%

MarkTJohnson

First coding job was using the Microsoft C 5.1 compiler. You had to drop out of windows to build stuff. Had to have different autoexec.bat file for compiling, debugging, using windows. Our mantra was "Boot, boot, boot, boot, boot."

Pualee

I started with Visual Studio 6 doing C++ and MFC. Until now, I had NO IDEA that there was only 1 prior version! :laugh:

raddevus

Right. That's how I felt. Haha. I honestly remember installing Visual (whatever it was called ) 1.0. I'm not kidding. Oh, before that, the "old guys" had installed something like Microsoft C 7.0 for Windows API dev. :) I also remember installing version 1.0 of Visual Basic from three 3.5" floppies. Great stuff. :)

Mike Hankey

I remember the beta when it came out, the disk was available free with the purchase of some magazine, don't remember the mag. Kept the disk for yeas!

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YaakovF

I was programming in C with the Lattice compiler around 1984 when Microsoft bought that compiler and turned it into Microsoft C.

Leng Vang

:)

TonyManso

Same here. Lattice and another cross-compiler whose name I can't remember.

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