visual basic and visual studio

Visual Studio is an integrated development environment. It consists of the compiler and debugger for visual c++, c#, vb.net, visual j++. It has a lot of features to help programmer develop applications. Visual Studio can be used to develop both Windows desktop and web applications.

Visual Basic is a programming language developed by Microsoft.

VB.net 2005 Express Edition is the integrated development environment for visual basic. It also has a compiler and debugger for vb.net. VB.net 2005 Express can be used to develop Windows desktop applications only.