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Visual Studio 2022

A complete development environment that will help you take your code from initial design to final deployment. Comes with support for many different languages, frameworks, and runtimes out of the box (such as .NET, Python, C++, Node.js, and TypeScript), with even more available as extensions. Add the GitHub Copilot extension to get a truly exceptional experience with code explanations and answers to docs in Github, among other features.

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