Visual Studio 2008 is having lot of advanced concepts like WPF,WCF,WWF,Linq etc. Entity Framework also an advanced approach introduced in .Net 3.5 SP
Microsoft Visual Studio Express was created in 2005.
Microsoft Visual Web Developer focuses on the tools required to develop Web applications and is fully incorporated into Microsoft Visual Studio itself. Microsoft Visual Web Developer Express edition is a separate product that makes use of the same integrated development environment as Microsoft Visual Studio itself, but has a more limited set of language features.
Microsoft Visual Studio has been written in Visual C++ and Visual C#
not that much. Just one is older
Visual Basic is more like a scripting language used to get additional functionality from Microsoft applications such as its Office Suite. On the other hand Visual Studio is a developement environment used to create full fledge Microsoft Applications. These applications when compiled and deployed can run independent of any other applications.
Firstly the UI at the start but also parallel computing and Azure services.
Microsoft has Visual Studio 2005, 2008, and (in beta) 2010. There are also older versions. There is no Visual Studio 2007. (Are you talking about Office 2007?)
The cost of Microsoft Visual Studio Ultimate can vary slightly depending on the year it was released. As of May 2014, the 2012 version can be purchased for between $4000 and $4200 the 2013 version costs between $12,000 and $13,000.
This program is located in the IDE directory of the Visual Studio directories and varies depending on the version of Visual Studio you have. One example is C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\vsta.exe
Visual Studio Express is a piece of software manufactured by Microsoft. It may be purchased from their online store featured on the Microsoft website.
The latest version is Microsoft Visual Studio 2012(.NET 4.5)Although, this is still in beta testing.It is available for free from Microsoft.Update: Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 is no longer is beta. Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Express is available for free (www.microsoft.com/express).
Visual Studio is a developement environment that can support many different languages like C++, j#, Basic, etc. "Visual" is added to the names because Microsoft has tweak the langauages a bit in order to integrate the .Net functionality and other features the would like to support. C++ is a stand alone languages that was incorperated into Visual Studio package.