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Visual Studio Express

Download Visual Studio Community for a fully-featured and extensible IDE; An updated alternative to Visual Studio Express.

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Customized installer

Develop for WPF, WinForms, ASP.NET, Universal Windows Platform, Win32, Android, iOS, and many more platforms all from one IDE with everything you need.

Get to coding faster

With faster project load times and performance improvements, you can get to working faster with your favorite languages such as C/C++, C#, Visual Basic, F#, Python, and more.

Improved productivity

Code editing, navigation, and debugging are made easier with features like XAML Edit & Continue, improved IntelliSense, enhanced code refactoring, live code analysis, and the ability to open any folder without needing projects or solutions.

Modern Web

Tap into modern web development with JavaScript, ASP.NET, Python, and more with powerful coding tools like rich IntelliSense completions, first class debugging, and performance profilers.

Build for Windows

Create apps and games for Windows using powerful new platform features like UI analysis and debugging, Windows 10 mobile emulators, DirectX graphics tools.

Vibrant ecosystem

Access to thousands of extensions that Express lacks, such as Resharper, Visual Assist, and Web Essentials.

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Choose from the options below to see what version of Visual Studio is right for you

Individual Developer

Visual Studio Community is designed with everything you need in one place to create your next application.

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Student or Teacher

Visual Studio Community provides the tools you need to build a game, design an app, launch a project, or teach a class.

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Open Source Contributor

Visual Studio Community includes a rich set of tools for open-source software development.

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Academic Researcher

Visual Studio Community is offered at no cost for you to advance your research.

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Small Organization

Visual Studio Community is best suited for you if you work in a small team of less than six developers. Learn more about the Visual Studio Community license terms here

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Large Business

Visual Studio Professional provides comprehensive tools and services for designing, building, and managing complex enterprise applications.

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Still want Visual Studio Express?

Express 2017 for Windows Desktop

Supports building managed and native desktop applications.*

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Express 2015 for Windows Desktop

Supports the creation of desktop applications for Windows.

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Express 2015 for Web

Create standards-based, responsive websites, web APIs, or real-time online experiences using ASP.NET.

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Express 2015 for Windows 10

Provides the core tools for building compelling, innovative apps for Universal Windows Platform. Windows is required.

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Team Foundation Server 2018 Express

Source-code-control, project management, and team-collaboration platform.

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*Visual Studio Express 2017 is available for Windows Desktop developers. This is the final version of Visual Studio Express, and there is not a UWP or Web offering for Visual Studio Express 2017 or later versions. We encourage all users to look at the free development options offered by Microsoft such as Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio Community for future development needs.

Visual Studio Community 2022

Free, fully-featured IDE for students, open-source and individual developers.

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Visual Studio Professional 2022

Powerful developer tools, services, and subscription benefits for efficient small-team collaboration.

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Free trial

Visual Studio Enterprise 2022

Advanced debugging, enterprise security, AI-assisted development—plus Azure Credits and Dev/Test pricing for the cloud.

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Free trial

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