What can you do with Visual Studio?

With Visual Studio you can build any app, game, or extension using any language of your choice. Learn about the features that will boost your productivity, improve code quality, and add to team agility.

Features

Develop

Navigate, write, and fix your code fast

Debug

Debug, profile, and diagnose with ease

Test

Write high-quality code with comprehensive testing tools

Collaborate

Use version control, be agile, collaborate efficiently

Extend

Choose from thousands of extensions to customize your IDE

Solutions

Windows

Develop apps and games to reach every device running Windows

Mobile Apps

Create native or hybrid apps targeting Android, iOS, and Windows

Azure Apps

Build, manage, and deploy cloud scale apps to Azure with ease

Web Apps

Develop modern web apps with flexibility and powerful open tools

Office

Utilize powerful tools for all types of Office development

Games

Design, code, and debug games with cutting-edge graphics and scripting tools

Extensions

Write your own extensions for Visual Studio

Database

Develop and deploy SQL Server and Azure SQL databases with ease

Technologies

C++

Use C++ for speed, performance, and compatibility across a wide range of devices

Node.js

Leverage Node.js for building fast, scalable, cross-platform applications in JavaScript

Python

Leverage Python for cross-platform scripting, web services, IoT, and data science tasks

R

Turn Visual Studio into a powerful R development environment

.NET

Use .NET to create apps and services on any device and OS

JavaScript/TypeScript

Bring productivity, quality, and flexibility to your JavaScript apps

Visual Studio Community 2017

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

Free download

Visual Studio Professional 2017

Professional developer tools, services, and subscription benefits for small
teams

Free trial

Visual Studio Enterprise 2017

End-to-end solution to meet demanding quality and scale needs of teams of all
sizes

Free trial