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Wow, Visual Studio is 20 years old?

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  • R 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

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    "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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    • R 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

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      Richard Deeming
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      Not according to Wikipedia:

      Microsoft Visual Studio - Wikipedia[^]:

      Microsoft first released Visual Studio ... in 1997


      "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

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      • M 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)

        I'd rather be phishing!

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        raddevus
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        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.

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        • R Richard Deeming

          Not according to Wikipedia:

          Microsoft Visual Studio - Wikipedia[^]:

          Microsoft first released Visual Studio ... in 1997


          "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

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          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. :)

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            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. :)

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            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++!) :)


            "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

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            • R 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++!) :)


              "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

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              raddevus
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              haha, agree 100%

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              • M 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)

                I'd rather be phishing!

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                MarkTJohnson
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                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."

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                • R 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

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

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

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                    raddevus
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                    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. :)

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                    • L Leng Vang

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

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                      Mike Hankey
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                      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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                      • L Leng Vang

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

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                        Time's fun when you're having flies!

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                        • M 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)

                          I'd rather be phishing!

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

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                            Time's fun when you're having flies!

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                            Leng Vang
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                            :)

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                            • Y YaakovF

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

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

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