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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.

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Visual Studio Code

Comes with built-in support for JavaScript, TypeScript, and Node.js and has a rich ecosystem of extensions for other languages (such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Go). Customize the editing, building, debugging experience with extensions to optimize for your unique needs.

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Visual Studio 2022 for Mac

Build web, iOS, Android, cloud apps and games in .NET and C#. You don’t need to switch back and forth between your editor and terminal or memorize commands for common tasks. First class support for code completion (IntelliSense), debugging, publishing, and more.

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