In the early 2000s, Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 was a popular integrated development environment (IDE) for Windows. Released in 1998, it was a major upgrade to the previous version, Visual Studio 97. The "a" in Visual Studio 6.0a indicates that it was a minor update to the original release. In this article, we'll take a look at what Visual Studio 6.0a has to offer, along with the MSDN Library on CD1 and CD2, which was a valuable resource for developers at the time.