Visual Micro is described as 'Arduino IDE for Visual Studio and Atmel Studio
Arduino developement plugin for Microsoft Visual Studio. A fully compatible alternative to Arduino IDE. The arduino plugin includes features such as:- arduino compiler, arduino upload to any board, full arduino library support, tutor' and is a IDE in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Visual Micro for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and Wine apps. The best Visual Micro alternative is Arduino IDE, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Visual Micro are PlatformIO, embedXcode, OneWare Studio and Atmel Studio.