Visual Studio is a Microsoft’s development IDE (Integrated Development Environment).
Now in this days all software companies using this tool for making their websites and giving to there customer, In previous days we uses visual studio 2005 but day by day they implementing thier IDE versions so that result visual studio 2008, 10, 12 are also available for making software in a higher version IDE.
Java is also well known high level programing platforms but they are fully independent and typical to programing, but if we move on to visual studio they are microsoft supportive programing platforms as well as object oriented also .So Microsoft visual studio is a good option for developing softwares and websites.