Sharepoint

SharePoint is a document management and collaboration tool developed by Microsoft. It's basically an intranet and content management system that is used for internal purposes to assist with bringing an organization together.

The many features of the platform make it much easier for people to work together on ad-hoc projects and establish standard business processes for information sharing, document publishing, and recording data.

Features like security controls, co-authoring, versioning, and integration with Exchange (Outlook Email Applications) give business users the capability to do more in less time and maintain the integrity of the work they produce. SharePoint includes the ability to:

• Require an approval on documents before they are visible
• "Check out" documents to prevent any other authoring or editing on them
• Get notifications when documents are uploaded or changes are made
• Make workflows using if/then logic to automate actions such as moving or emailing documents, and recording information

Visual Studio

Visual Studio uses Microsoft software development platforms such as Windows API, Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Store and Microsoft Silverlight. It can produce both native code and managed code.