Description
Working on .NET, C++ or cross-platform projects, you want the heavy lifting — breakpoint debugging, profiling, a visual UI designer — that a light editor cannot carry, while a commercial IDE costs money. Visual Studio Community is Microsoft's full-featured IDE, completely free for individual developers, open-source projects and small teams.
Made by Microsoft, on Windows and macOS, the mainstay environment for .NET, C# and C++.
Powerful debugger: breakpoints, stepping, conditional breakpoints and data visualizers together let you trace even complex bugs to their root.
IntelliSense and refactoring: deep completion, navigation and refactoring tools keep renaming, extracting methods and finding references reliable in large projects.
Visual designers: drag-and-drop WYSIWYG design for WinForms, WPF and more, with backend logic bound in a click.
Performance and diagnostics: built-in CPU and memory profilers and diagnostic tools locate stalls and leaks without a separate tool.
Integrated Git and testing: source control, unit testing and CI/CD are wired in, so writing, committing and testing all happen in one IDE.
Made by Microsoft, on Windows and macOS, the mainstay environment for .NET, C# and C++.
Features
Powerful debugger: breakpoints, stepping, conditional breakpoints and data visualizers together let you trace even complex bugs to their root.
IntelliSense and refactoring: deep completion, navigation and refactoring tools keep renaming, extracting methods and finding references reliable in large projects.
Visual designers: drag-and-drop WYSIWYG design for WinForms, WPF and more, with backend logic bound in a click.
Performance and diagnostics: built-in CPU and memory profilers and diagnostic tools locate stalls and leaks without a separate tool.
Integrated Git and testing: source control, unit testing and CI/CD are wired in, so writing, committing and testing all happen in one IDE.
