(classic) The final release was VB6 in 1998.Īt some point, the Visual Basic IDE was renamed Visual Studio, and other languages were introduced besides the Visual Basic language.
Before Visual Studio existed, there was a thing called Visual Basic which was both an IDE, and a programming language. I have no idea why nobody is pointing this out. (Express isn't shown in this comparison.) Or you can look at Microsoft's Visual Studio Products page for a comparison chart of the commercial versions. You can look at the Wikipedia article Microsoft Visual Studio for a description of the different editions and a comparison chart. There are several different editions of Visual Studio, starting with the free Express editions and then continuing with the Professional, Premium, and Ultimate editions that cost money and have additional features. So in that sense, your question may really be "What's the difference between Visual Basic Express (Visual Studio Express) and Visual Studio?"
It's called Visual Basic Express in the Start menu and the title bar, even though it's really Visual Studio Express underneath. However, when you download Visual Basic Express, you are really downloading Visual Studio Express with appropriate components to make Visual Basic programs. So in that sense, it doesn't quite make sense to compare the IDE to the programming language: Visual Studio is like the text editor, Visual Basic is like the language you are writing in. Visual Studio is the integrated development environment (IDE) used to create programs in Visual Basic or the other 'Visual' named languages.
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