Linea De Tiempo Visual Studio By carloslopezmazo 1987 BCE Microsoft QuickBASIC 2.01, 3.00, 4.00 1975 BCE Bill Gates and Paul Allen write a version of Basic for Altair 8080 Dec 24, 1982 IBM releases BASCOM 1.0 (developed by Microsoft) Dec 24, 1983 Microsoft Basic Compiler System v5.35 for MS-DOS release Dec 24, 1984 Microsoft Basic Compiler System v5.36 release Dec 24, 1985 Microsoft QuickBASIC 1.0 Dec 24, 1986 Microsoft QuickBASIC 1.01, 1.02, 2.00 Dec 24, 1987 Microsoft BASIC 6.0 Dec 24, 1988 Microsoft QuickBASIC 4.00, 4.00b, 4.50 Dec 24, 1989 Microsoft BASIC Professional Development System 7.0 Dec 24, 1990 Microsoft BASIC Professional Development System 7.1 Dec 24, 1991 Microsoft Visual Basic released May 20-Windows World Convention –Atlanta Dec 24, 1992 Microsoft Visual Basic 2.0 Dec 24, 1993 Microsoft Visual Basic 3.0 in Standard and Professional versions Dec 24, 1995 Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 released, supported the new Windows 95 Dec 24, 1997 Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 – introduction of IntelliSense Dec 24, 1998 Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 that included Visual Basic 6.0 released (first VS) Dec 24, 2002 Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 7.0 Dec 24, 2002 Visual Studio .NET Dec 24, 2003 Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 7.1 Dec 24, 2003 Microsoft Visual Studio w/Intellisense Dec 24, 2003 Visual Studio .NET Dec 24, 2004 Announce Visual Studios 2005 – Code name Whidbey Dec 24, 2005 Visual Studio 2005 release w/Extensibility Dec 24, 2005 Visual Studio Express released Dec 24, 2006 Expression Tool Set released – devs and designers work together Dec 24, 2006 Visual Studio Team release – November 30th Dec 24, 2007 Visual Studio 2008 (code name Orcas) ships November = Video Studio Shell Dec 24, 2010 Visual Studios (code name Rosario)