Visual Studio .NET. Definition - What does Visual Studio .NET mean? Visual Studio .NET is a Microsoft-integrated development environment (IDE) that can be used for developing consoles, graphical user interfaces (GUIs), Windows Forms, Web services and Web applications.
Decision theory can be broken into two branches: normative decision theory, which gives advice on how to make the best decisions, given a set of uncertain beliefs and a set of values; and descriptive decision theory, which analyzes how existing, possibly irrational agents actually make decisions.
Tarde (1903) defined the innovation-decision process as a series of steps that includes: 1  First knowledge. 2  Forming an attitude. 3  A decision to adopt or reject. 4  Implementation and use. 5  Confirmation of the decision.