BASIC remains popular in numerous dialects and new languages influenced by BASIC such as Microsoft Visual Basic.

Software is usually designed and created ( coded / written / programmed ) in integrated development environments ( IDE ) like Eclipse, Emacs and Microsoft Visual Studio that can simplify the process and compile the program.

EiffelEnvision is a plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio that allows users to edit, compile, and debug Eiffel projects from within the Microsoft Visual Studio IDE.

Fortran 6 or Visual Fortran 2001 was licensed to Compaq by Microsoft.

* Visual DataFlex ( Microsoft Windows Only )

* http :// msdn. microsoft. com / en-us / library / aa289157 ( v = vs. 71 ). aspx " Microsoft Visual C ++ Floating-Point Optimization ", by Eric Fleegal, MSDN, 2004

Some IDEs contain compiler, interpreter, or both, such as Microsoft Visual Studio and Eclipse ; others do not, such as SharpDevelop and Lazarus.

However, there are some multiple-language IDEs, such as Eclipse, ActiveState Komodo, IntelliJ IDEA, Oracle JDeveloper, recent versions of NetBeans, Microsoft Visual Studio, Genuitec MyEclipse, WinDev, and Xcode.

Most major compiler vendors for Windows still provide free copies of their command-line tools, including Microsoft ( Visual C ++, Platform SDK,. NET Framework SDK, nmake utility ), Embarcadero Technologies ( bcc32 compiler, make utility ).

The official implementation, the Melbourne Mercury Compiler, is available for most Unix platforms, including Mac OS X, as well as for Microsoft Windows ( in Windows, it requires one of the Cygwin or MinGW toolsets, and can be compiled either with GCC or Microsoft Visual C ++).

Visual Basic for Applications ( VBA ) is a programming language included in Microsoft Office.

Zonnon is available as a plug-in language for the Microsoft Visual Studio for. NET development environment.

Microsoft Visual Studio 6. 0 Enterprise Edition contains a hidden Easter Egg, which is accessed using the words " Reggie " ( a reference to The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin ) and " Victor " ( a reference to One Foot In The Grave ).

Microsoft Visual Studio and Sun Java also provide programming tools for developing survey instruments on the handheld.

VBScript ( Visual Basic Scripting Edition ) is an Active Scripting language developed by Microsoft that is modeled on Visual Basic.

This relatively widespread use of VBScript is not because of many special merits of VBScript-several useful features of the full Visual Basic, such as strong typing, extended error trapping and the ability to pass a variable number of parameters to a subroutine have been removed-but mainly because, apart from being easy to learn, royalties need not be paid to Microsoft by implementers as long as the VBScript trade mark is acknowledged.

By contrast, when an organization licenses Visual Basic for Applications ( VBA ) from Microsoft-as companies such as Autodesk, StatSoft, Great Plains Accounting and Visio ( subsequently acquired by Microsoft ) have done-it is allowed to redistribute the full VBA code-writing and debugging environment with its product.

The WordStar Command Emulator is written in Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications, a macro programming language based on Visual Basic built into Microsoft Word to allow for a high level of customization.

One such program is ProSystem, written in C / C ++ for the Microsoft Windows operating system.

Its first product was Turbo Pascal in 1983, developed by Anders Hejlsberg ( who later developed. NET and C # for Microsoft ) and before Borland acquired the product sold in Scandinavia under the name of Compas Pascal.

Commonly used software tools and technologies in this field include Java, XML, Perl, C, C ++, Python, R, MySQL, SQL, CUDA, MATLAB, and Microsoft Excel.

The types of software include web pages developed in languages and frameworks like HTML, PHP, Perl, JSP, ASP. NET, XML, and desktop applications like OpenOffice. org, Microsoft Word developed in languages like C, C ++, Objective-C, Java, C #, or Smalltalk.

Toolsets like Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX ( SFU ), UWIN, MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers and Hamilton C shell also aim to provide a Unix-like user and development environment.

Microsoft applied C # and CLI under the Community Promise, so anyone can safely implement those standards without fearing a patent lawsuit.

Multiplan was released first for computers running CP / M ; it was developed using a Microsoft proprietary p-code C compiler as part of a portability strategy that facilitated ports to systems such as MS-DOS, Xenix, Commodore 64, Texas Instruments TI-99 / 4A, Radio Shack TRS-80 Model II, TRS-80 Model 100 ( on ROM ), Apple II, and Burroughs B-20 series.

Similarly, Microsoft announced Language Integrated Query ( LINQ ) and DLINQ, an implementation of LINQ, in September 2005, to provide close, language-integrated database query capabilities with its programming languages C # and VB. NET 9.

Around the same time a number of concepts were imported from C to let Pascal programmers use the C-based API of Microsoft Windows directly.

* June 7 – A computer user known as " _eci " publishes his Microsoft C source code on a Windows 95 and Windows NT exploit, which later becomes WinNuke.

* C # ( and other. NET languages ), via Code Contracts ( a Microsoft Research project integrated into the. NET Framework 4. 0 )

In a 2008 article in InfoWorld, Randall C. Kennedy, formerly of Intel, introduces this term using successive versions of Microsoft Office between the year 2000 and 2007 as his premise.

While Hungarian notation can be applied to any programming language and environment, it was widely adopted by Microsoft for use with the C language, in particular for Microsoft Windows, and its use remains largely confined to that area.

Gecko is written in C ++ and is cross-platform, and runs on various operating systems including BSDs, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, OS / 2, AIX, OpenVMS, and Microsoft Windows.

He was the original author of Turbo Pascal, the chief architect of Delphi, and currently works for Microsoft as the lead architect of C #.< ref name =" MTF ">

PagePlus is primarily written in C ++ using Visual Studio 2008, with a heavy dependence on the Microsoft MFC framework.

Microsoft Foundation Class Library ( MFC ) wrapped Windows API functionality in C ++ classes, and thus allows a more object oriented way of interacting with the API.

The Microsoft / Borland C ++ compilers had the ability to use this system as soon as it was introduced in Windows 95 and NT, however the actual implementation was undocumented and had to be reverse engineered for the Wine project and free compilers.

The European Commission, in its March 24, 2004 decision on Microsoft's business practices, quotes, in paragraph 463, Microsoft general manager for C ++ development Aaron Contorer as stating in a February 21, 1997 internal Microsoft memo drafted for Bill Gates:

The latest incarnation of Microsoft BASIC is Visual Basic. NET which incorporates some features from C ++ and C # and can be used to develop web forms, Windows forms, console applications and server-based applications.

Microsoft Visual C ++ ( often abbreviated as MSVC or VC ++) is a commercial ( free version available ), integrated development environment ( IDE ) product from Microsoft for the C, C ++, and C ++/ CLI programming languages.

It has tools for developing and debugging C ++ code, especially code written for the Microsoft Windows API, the DirectX API, and the Microsoft. NET Framework.

The predecessor to Visual C ++ was called Microsoft C / C ++.

Microsoft included and updated Visual C ++ 1. 5 as part of the 2. x releases up to 2. 1, which included Visual C ++ 1. 52, and both 16-bit and 32-bit version of the Control Development Kit ( CDK ) were included.

Updates available through subscription included Visual C ++ 4. 1, which came with the Microsoft Game SDK ( later released separately as the DirectX SDK ), and Visual C ++ 4. 2.

Initially it replaced a development environment consisting of tools added onto Visual C ++ 6. 0. eMbedded Visual C ++ was replaced as a separate development environment by Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.

With Visual C ++ 2005, Microsoft also introduced Team Foundation Server.

Programmers who wanted the 64-bit versions of the Visual C ++. NET 2003 libraries ( which are no longer available ) had to contact Microsoft through a certain e-mail address.

* Legacy Microsoft Visual C ++ 2008 Express Edition

* Microsoft Visual C ++ 2010 Express Edition ( available as a free download at the MSDN site )