What Does Visual Studio .NET Mean?

Visual Studio .NET is a Microsoft-integrated development environment (IDE) that can be used for developing consoles, graphical user interfaces (GUIs), Windows Forms, Web services and Web applications.

Techopedia Explains Visual Studio .NET

To improve functionality at many levels, plug-ins may be added to provide support for source-control systems, while domain-specific language editors and visual designers are examples of new tool sets that may be added via these plug-ins.