I'm not a professional or anything, just doing this for fun. Is there a free software suite for web development that would be better to use rather than using notepad++?
For example, I'm learning android development and I use android studio for it.
Thanks
One option for you to consider is Microsoft's new offering, Visual Studio Code.
It's basically a free version of Visual Studio designed to be cross platform (Mac, Linux, Windows) that currently best serves ASP.NET and NodeJS.
I'd consider giving it a shot. I haven't tried it because I use Visual Studio Professional 2013 for work, which is very fully featured. But VS Code will do syntax highlighting for these:
Batch
C++
Clojure
Coffee Script
DockerFile
F#
Go
Jade
Java
HandleBars
Ini
Lua
Makefile
Markdown
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Python
R
Razor
Ruby
Rust
SQL
Visual Basic
XML
As well as Intellisense (like autocomplete, I believe) for these:
CSS
HTML
JavaScript
JSON
Less
Sass
It looks like it also has some sort of built in Git support, which would be really handy. Probably worth at least considering.
https://code.visualstudio.com/
When I press Alt+F11 I get the *'Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications'* and I can start a module. This module seems to be in Visual Basic 6.0. How can I instead write Visual Basic .NET ? Can I do it from the same window?
You are looking at VBA not VB6, though the syntactic differences are small.
VBA is a scripting language for Microsoft applications.
As the comment to your question states, you would need to write a .NET assembly separately and interface with it via VBA.
Difference between Visual Basic 6.0 and VBA
Visual Studio offers the ability to extend the Intellisense support when editing XML documents by specifying an XSD that will be used to validate the XML.
Does Visual Studio offer any such support for the Razor Editor, such that I can specify an XSD and Intellisense will offer autocomplete suggestions for these new types?
This will probably work. Visual Studio uses html_5.xsd file to provide autocomplete. you can provide your xsd by placing it next to html_5.xsd (which is probably in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\Packages\schemas\html) and then editing html_5.xsd to include your file. A Visual Studio restart is required.
<xsd:include schemaLocation="MyAwesomeTypes.xsd" />
Can anyone give the steps for integrating the html5 language in visual studio 2008?
Thank you..
The web standards update for Visual Studio 2010 is what gives you the syntax highlighting for both HTML5 and CSS3. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like it is available for vs2008, sorry. There may be a user supported extension out there, but not one from Microsoft.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdevtools/archive/2011/06/15/web-standards-update-for-visual-studio-2010-sp1.aspx
Just would like to make clear, I cannot find straight answer. C# is general specification of this language done by MS, while Visual C# is implementation of this language, again done by MS?
So if we say we develop in C# (in visual studio e.g.) we develop in Visual C# actually.
Is that correct?
Yes, you've pretty much got it. Most of us just refer to it as C# though, since it is after all a Microsoft thing, and their implementation of the language is what most coders use (in Visual Studio).
An example of a C# compiler that is not Visual C# is the Mono compiler. The IDE that uses that compiler is MonoDevelop. Both are not Microsoft products, but do implement the C# programming language (as well as the CLR).
I don't think that "Visual C#" is a particularly commonly used term - C# is the language, so I would probably say that "Visual C#" refers just generally to C# development using the Visual Studio suite of products.
Like I said though it's not a commonly used term any more (and as you have pointed it out it is also a somewhat confusing term).
You can say that Visual C# is the tool that is part of Visual Studio, provided my Microsoft used to create programs in the C# language.
There is the ECMA-334 C# Language specification, that defines the language.
There are other tools to create programs in C#, like SharpDevelop or MonoDevelop.
This whole "visual C#" has caused me much unnecessary grief (including one during an interview , given I had never heard of the term 'visual C#' and apparently the interviewer didn't even know what it was and was just trying to put checkmark beside qualifications). To sum, Visual C# doesn't exist. It's just C#, we should file a petition to remove that stupid qualifier.
Visual C# is the name of compiler (and IDE). C# is the language. It is the same as Borland C++ and C++ (first is the specific compiler). Or MySQL and SQL.
For all the answers that "Visual C# is C# developed in Visual Studio" - I would point out that the C# Compiler (CSC.EXE) is not part of Visual Studio but is delivered as part of the Microsoft .net Framework - which is completely independent of the Microsoft Visual Studio line of development tools.
In that it has any meaning at all (beyond the initial marketing idea that it would appeal to Visual Basic developers, who were the majority of Windows developers on launch day) I'd say it refers to C# compiled by the Microsoft implementation of the .net Framework.
Whether or not Roslyn compiles "Visual C#" or "C#" is anyones guess.
C# is a kind of programming lang, something like Java, Ruby, Python.
Visual C# means Microsoft Visual Studio/C#， it's IDE for programming C#.
u also can write C# code in notepad.