| Microsoft Specialist in Visual Studio | 
| Program Overview: | The Microsoft Specialist certification in Visual Studio validates an individual's knowledge and skills in application development using their choice of programming approaches. | 
| Target Audience: | Developers with at least one year of experience programming the essential business/application logic for a variety of application types and hardware/software platforms using C# or JavaScript and developing with HTML in an object-oriented, event-driven programming model. | 
| Vendor Prerequisites: | There are no formal prerequisites. | 
| (Must Pass All Exams) | 
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| Pass one of the following two exams to attain a Microsoft Specialist in Visual Studio certification: 70-480: Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3 or 70-483: Programming in C# |