Visual Studio

The product is an integrated development environment and code editor for building applications, games, and extensions across languages and platforms. It provides code completion, debugging, profiling, testing, version control, and deployment automation to support the full development lifecycle from writing to production. It is for individual developers and development teams in businesses of all sizes. It is delivered as a downloadable IDE with extensions and integrated cloud services including GitHub and Azure.

Key features

• IntelliSense context-aware code completion
• AI assistance via Copilot agent mode
• Debugger and performance profiler
• Integrated testing tools
• Git and CI/CD integration
• Support for .NET, C#, C++, Node.js
• Cloud-native development with Aspire and Azure
• Game development for Unity and Unreal
• Customizable IDE via thousands of extensions
• SQL Server and Azure SQL database tools