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What is Visual Studio?

I downloaded unity and they installed visual studio with it. Is it like something to create apps with like android studio?

28th Sep 2017, 6:12 PM
Farhan Raza
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That's right Farhan. VS is an IDE like Android Studio and Eclipse and many others which enables you to write, debug and publish your programs easily without involving you with low-level mechanisms. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_Studio]
28th Sep 2017, 6:18 PM
Babak
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Of course. Without any doubt.
29th Sep 2017, 9:46 AM
Babak
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Thank God! ;) Good luck, my friend
29th Sep 2017, 9:48 AM
Babak
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100% Quickly and easily!
29th Sep 2017, 9:40 AM
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29th Sep 2017, 9:42 AM
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Absolutely you can, my friend.
29th Sep 2017, 9:25 AM
Babak
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Clearly YES!
29th Sep 2017, 9:34 AM
Babak
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Visual Studio Code Blocks Dev c++ etc...
29th Sep 2017, 9:36 AM
Babak
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Both convey the same meaning.
29th Sep 2017, 9:43 AM
Babak
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Can I go?! ;D
29th Sep 2017, 9:45 AM
Babak
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Yes it is. with support of a variety of compilers like MSVS gcc g++ clang etc
29th Sep 2017, 9:21 AM
Babak
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Is there any question?! ;)
29th Sep 2017, 9:26 AM
Babak
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It facilitates your hard work a great deal. Without IDE you are going to experience an enormously hard time, especially for large projects. (I don't dare to work without it!)
29th Sep 2017, 9:29 AM
Babak
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Of course my friend. you can use notepad and command -line compilers to do so. (If you want to kill yourself!)
29th Sep 2017, 9:32 AM
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29th Sep 2017, 9:38 AM
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Android studio is used specifically to create apps for your android devices. But VS is a multipurpose environment and many other IDE's (like Unity and UE4) plug their coding/scripting terminals to VS. In addition to that, you can absolutely make your stand alone apps for different platforms using VS.
29th Sep 2017, 9:01 AM
Babak
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Another non-programming example is 3D modeling for games. in this case you have a pipeline like this: Build your model in Maya(E.G.) -> export it with .fbx format -> import it into your engine.
29th Sep 2017, 9:13 AM
Babak
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Exactly. In fact that's a new facility that has been added to VS since 2013 version.
29th Sep 2017, 9:16 AM
Babak
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Yes you can. But I as far as I know you can make stand-alone apps for Windows (either console, or GUI) x86 x64 and ARM
29th Sep 2017, 9:20 AM
Babak
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C C++ C# VB.net etc
29th Sep 2017, 9:23 AM
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