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The professional edition includes a superset of the VSPackages in the standard edition, and the team suite includes a superset of the VSPackages in both other editions.

It is used to develop computer programs, as well as websites, web apps, web services and mobile apps.

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Visual Studio uses Microsoft software development platforms such as Windows API, Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Store and Microsoft Silverlight.

The integrated debugger works both as a source-level debugger and a machine-level debugger.

Other built-in tools include a code profiler, designer for building GUI applications, web designer, class designer, and database schema designer.

It accepts plug-ins that expand the functionality at almost every levelincluding adding support for source control systems (like Subversion and Git ) and adding new toolsets like editors and visual designers for domain-specific languages or toolsets for other aspects of the software development lifecycle (like the Azure DevOps client: Team Explorer).

Built-in languages include C, 7 C, CCLI, Visual Basic.NET, C, F, 8 JavaScript, TypeScript, XML, XSLT, HTML, and CSS.

Support for other languages such as Python, 9 Ruby, Node.js, and M among others is available via plug-ins.

The slogan for Visual Studio Community edition is Free, fully-featured IDE for students, open-source and individual developers.

When installed, the functionality is available as a Service.

The IDE provides three services: SVsSolution, which provides the ability to enumerate projects and solutions; SVsUIShell, which provides windowing and UI functionality (including tabs, toolbars, and tool windows); and SVsShell, which deals with registration of VSPackages.

In addition, the IDE is also responsible for coordinating and enabling communication between services.

All editors, designers, project types and other tools are implemented as VSPackages.

The Visual Studio SDK also includes the Managed Package Framework ( MPF ), which is a set of managed wrappers around the COM-interfaces that allow the Packages to be written in any CLI compliant language.

However, MPF does not provide all the functionality exposed by the Visual Studio COM interfaces.

The services can then be consumed for creation of other packages, which add functionality to the Visual Studio IDE.

A language service defines various interfaces which the VSPackage implementation can implement to add support for various functionalities.

Functionalities that can be added this way include syntax coloring, statement completion, brace matching, parameter information tooltips, member lists, and error markers for background compilation.

If the interface is implemented, the functionality will be available for the language.

The implementations can reuse code from the parser or the compiler for the language.

Language services can be implemented either in native code or managed code.

For native code, either the native COM interfaces or the Babel Framework (part of Visual Studio SDK) can be used.

For managed code, the MPF includes wrappers for writing managed language services.

In contrast, a source control plugin using the MSSCCI (Microsoft Source Code Control Interface) provides a set of functions that are used to implement various source control functionality, with a standard Visual Studio user interface.

MSSCCI was first used to integrate Visual SourceSafe with Visual Studio 6.0 but was later opened up via the Visual Studio SDK.

Visual Studio.NET 2002 used MSSCCI 1.1, and Visual Studio.NET 2003 used MSSCCI 1.2.

Visual Studio 2005, 2008, and 2010 use MSSCCI Version 1.3, which adds support for rename and delete propagation, as well as asynchronous opening.

The instances use different registry hives (see MSDN s definition of the term registry hive in the sense used here) to store their configuration state and are differentiated by their AppId (Application ID).

VSPackages registered for one AppId are integrated with other VSPackages for that AppId.

The various product editions of Visual Studio are created using the different AppIds.

The Visual Studio Express edition products are installed with their own AppIds, but the Standard, Professional, and Team Suite products share the same AppId.

Consequently, one can install the Express editions side-by-side with other editions, unlike the other editions which update the same installation.

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