Microsoft Visual Studio
Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for building diverse digital solutions. It supports over 36 programming languages, includes a code editor with IntelliSense, a debugger, and designers for GUI, web, and databases. The Community edition is free and integrates with GitHub Copilot.
Cost / License
- Free Personal
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Windows
- Online
- .NET Framework
Features
- Code Completion
- Embedded debugger
- NET Support
- Nuget
- VB.NET support
- NET Framework
- C-sharp
- Exe Compiler
- Syntax Highlighting
- Color coding
- NETCore Support
- C support
- Support for MS SQL Server
- F# Support
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- No registration required
- Autocompletion
- Works Offline
- Ad-free
- C# Scripting
- Form designer
Azure integration- Refactoring
- Automatic content formatting
- Built-in AI Assistant
- Vim Key Mapping
Tags
- Python
- development-environments
- Development Environment
- integrated-development
- Software developer
- windows-phone-development
- ASP.NET
- c-development
- -net
- ai-code-assistant
- integrated-debugger
- development-suite
- Developer Tools
- development-tools
- developers
- development
- Mobile Development
- Web Development
- development-enviroments
- ides
Microsoft Visual Studio News & Activities
Recent News
- POX published news article about Microsoft Visual Studio
Visual Studio 2026 launches with AI integration, major performance boost and redesigned UIMicrosoft has launched Visual Studio 2026, making the latest version of its integrated development ...
- Fla published news article about Microsoft Visual Studio
Visual Studio launches Model Context Protocol for secure AI integrationMicrosoft Visual Studio has officially launched Model Context Protocol (MCP), now generally availab...
- Fla published news article about GitHub Copilot
GitHub Copilot now free for Microsoft Visual Studio usersGitHub Copilot for Visual Studio is now available for free, offering developers up to 2,000 complet...
Recent activities
POX added Microsoft Visual Studio as alternative to Notepad.exe
Maksa added Microsoft Visual Studio as alternative to DecSoft App Builder
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What is Microsoft Visual Studio?
Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft. It is used for creating various digital solutions such as computer programs, mobile apps, websites, and web services. The IDE is based on several Microsoft software development frameworks. It can generate both native and managed code.
Visual Studio features a code editor with IntelliSense, code completion, and code refactoring. It also includes an integrated debugger, a GUI application forms designer, web designer, class designer, and database schema designer. The IDE supports plug-ins for additional functionality, including source-control system support and new toolsets.
Visual Studio is compatible with 36 programming languages, provided a language-specific service is available. The built-in languages include C, C++, C++/CLI, Visual Basic .NET, C#, F#, JavaScript, TypeScript, XML, XSLT, HTML, and CSS. Plug-ins offer support for other languages like Python, Ruby, Node.js, and M. The Community edition of Visual Studio is free. It also integrates with GitHub Copilot's code completion and chat.
Microsoft Visual Studio information
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One time purchase (perpetual license) that costs $0.Rating
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Comments and Reviews
I have been using Visual Studio for 4 years and it hasn't let me down not even once. Most reliable, easy to use and powerful IDE I've ever tried.
Bloated in a sense of being obese. It hogs my SSD and RAM memory because it's such a poor piece of software. Did I mention that it's almost impossible to have custom color themes or code macros. I don't want to be working like in the 80s.
On a side note, it's not actually free, when your team surpasses 5 members you gotta pay an unreasonable amount to Micro$oft. I'd rather not be a part of that "community", as in community edition.
Bloated, slow, and awful to use. When trying to load a dotNET Core MAUI XAML project, this piece of crap crashes. Furthermore, the built-in XAML preview for said project does not even work.
If you want a better alternative IDE for dotNET that is way more streamlined, faster, and reliable, use JetBrains Rider instead.
Powerful, but extremely bloated and slow.
Non-free software
Every time I have touched Visual Studio it has made me want to slam my head into the desk. It's a bloated mess (both in terms of resource usage, and in terms of trying to do too many things at once) and it's incredible how unstable it is. Files just... disappear, nowhere to be found. A resx file I haven't touched in weeks will suddenly become corrupt and then nothing works. Feels like I spend more time trying to undo VS's f*ckups than I do actually developing my project. It's gotten to the point that I have some catastrophic problem grind everything to a halt on an almost literally daily basis.
I like VS because it covers all my needs from SQL over ASP.NET to web apps.