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Microsoft Visual Studio
Microsoft Visual Studio is a powerful development environment that provides high quality code throughout the software development cycle, from design to deployment. Whatever applications you develop, for SharePoint, the Internet, Windows, Windows Phone, and other platforms, Visual Studio is a universal, comprehensive solution. All Visual Studio custom development tools are licensed per user. Each licensed user can install and use the software for the design, development, testing and demonstration of their applications on any number of devices. Learn more about Visual Studio products.
The product has several editions that are distributed with different levels of MSDN subscriptions (see the comparison on the Microsoft website).