Editing Visual J Sharp (section)

==History of J#==
In January 2007, Microsoft announced:<ref>Microsoft Developer Network, [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vjsharp/ Visual J# Product Announcement], 10 January 2007</ref>

* That Microsoft would produce an updated version of Visual J# 2.0, including a [[64-bit computing|64-bit]] [[freely redistributable software|redistributable]] version, called J# 2.0 Second Edition to meet customer demand for 64-bit runtime support. Microsoft released Visual J# 2.0 Second Edition in May 2007.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=42C46554-5313-4348-BF81-9BB133518945&displaylang=en |title=Visual J# 2.0 Second Edition Redistributable Download |website=[[Microsoft]] |access-date=2010-04-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070523221606/http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=42C46554-5313-4348-BF81-9BB133518945&displaylang=en |archive-date=2007-05-23 |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>
* Retirement of the J# language and Java Language Conversion Assistant from future versions of ''[[Visual Studio]]''. The last version, shipping with Visual Studio 2005, was supported until 2015.
* Calling J# code from .NET 4.0 code would fail unless vjsnativ.dll was pre-loaded.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.windwardreports.com/davidt/2011/02/calling-j-code-from-net-40.html|title=Calling J# code from .NET 4.0 - Windward Wrocks|access-date=6 March 2017}}</ref>

The download of Visual J# 2005 Express Edition is no longer available from Microsoft's website.

Visual J# is out of support including the Visual J# 2.0 Redistributable Second Edition released in 2007, that was supported through to 2017 "(5 years mainstream and 5 years extended support) on EN-US locales."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/bb188593|title=Visual J# Home|access-date=6 March 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2017/04/10/end-of-support-for-visual-studio-2008-in-one-year/|title=End of Support for Visual Studio 2008 – in One Year|access-date=2017-04-11|language=en-US}}</ref>