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Screenshot of Visual Studio 2013, editing the source code of a C++ program
Developer(s) Microsoft
Stable release

2022 17.4[1] Edit this on Wikidata
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Written in
  • C#
  • C++

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Operating system
  • Windows 10 and later
  • Windows Server 2016 and later[3]
  • macOS
Available in 13 languages

List of languages

Chinese, Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish and Turkish[4]
Type Integrated development environment
License Freemium[5]
Website visualstudio.microsoft.com

Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft. It is used to develop computer programs including websites, web apps, web services and mobile apps. Visual Studio uses Microsoft software development platforms such as Windows API, Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Store and Microsoft Silverlight. It can produce both native code and managed code.

Visual Studio includes a code editor supporting IntelliSense (the code completion component) as well as code refactoring. The integrated debugger works as both a source-level debugger and as a machine-level debugger. Other built-in tools include a code profiler, designer for building GUI applications, web designer, class designer, and database schema designer. It accepts plug-ins that expand the functionality at almost every level—including adding support for source control systems (like Subversion and Git) and adding new toolsets like editors and visual designers for domain-specific languages or toolsets for other aspects of the software development lifecycle (like the Azure DevOps client: Team Explorer).

Visual Studio supports 36 different programming languages and allows the code editor and debugger to support (to varying degrees) nearly any programming language, provided a language-specific service exists. Built-in languages include C,[6] C++, C++/CLI, Visual Basic .NET, C#, F#,[7] JavaScript, TypeScript, XML, XSLT, HTML, and CSS. Support for other languages such as Python,[8] Ruby, Node.js, and M among others is available via plug-ins. Java (and J#) were supported in the past.

The most basic edition of Visual Studio, the Community edition, is available free of charge. The slogan for Visual Studio Community edition is «Free, fully-featured IDE for students, open-source and individual developers».

As of January 10, 2023, Visual Studio 2022 is a current production-ready version. Visual Studio 2013, 2015 and 2017 are on Extended Support, while 2019 is on Mainstream Support.[9]

Architecture[edit]

Visual Studio does not support any programming language, solution or tool intrinsically; instead, it allows the plugging of functionality coded as a VSPackage. When installed, the functionality is available as a Service. The IDE provides three services: SVsSolution, which provides the ability to enumerate projects and solutions; SVsUIShell, which provides windowing and UI functionality (including tabs, toolbars, and tool windows); and SVsShell, which deals with registration of VSPackages. In addition, the IDE is also responsible for coordinating and enabling communication between services.[10] All editors, designers, project types and other tools are implemented as VSPackages. Visual Studio uses COM to access the VSPackages. The Visual Studio SDK also includes the Managed Package Framework (MPF), which is a set of managed wrappers around the COM-interfaces that allow the Packages to be written in any CLI compliant language.[11] However, MPF does not provide all the functionality exposed by the Visual Studio COM interfaces.[12]
The services can then be consumed for creation of other packages, which add functionality to the Visual Studio IDE.

Support for programming languages is added by using a specific VSPackage called a Language Service. A language service defines various interfaces which the VSPackage implementation can implement to add support for various functionalities.[13] Functionalities that can be added this way include syntax coloring, statement completion, brace matching, parameter information tooltips, member lists, and error markers for background compilation.[13] If the interface is implemented, the functionality will be available for the language. Language services are implemented on a per-language basis. The implementations can reuse code from the parser or the compiler for the language.[13] Language services can be implemented either in native code or managed code. For native code, either the native COM interfaces or the Babel Framework (part of Visual Studio SDK) can be used.[14] For managed code, the MPF includes wrappers for writing managed language services.[15]

Visual Studio does not include any source control support built in but it defines two alternative ways for source control systems to integrate with the IDE.[16] A Source Control VSPackage can provide its own customised user interface. In contrast, a source control plugin using the MSSCCI (Microsoft Source Code Control Interface) provides a set of functions that are used to implement various source control functionality, with a standard Visual Studio user interface.[17][18] MSSCCI was first used to integrate Visual SourceSafe with Visual Studio 6.0 but was later opened up via the Visual Studio SDK. Visual Studio .NET 2002 used MSSCCI 1.1, and Visual Studio .NET 2003 used MSSCCI 1.2. Visual Studio 2005, 2008, and 2010 use MSSCCI Version 1.3, which adds support for rename and delete propagation, as well as asynchronous opening.[18]

Visual Studio supports running multiple instances of the environment (each with its own set of VSPackages). The instances use different registry hives (see MSDN’s definition of the term «registry hive» in the sense used here) to store their configuration state and are differentiated by their AppId (Application ID). The instances are launched by an AppId-specific .exe that selects the AppId, sets the root hive, and launches the IDE. VSPackages registered for one AppId are integrated with other VSPackages for that AppId. The various product editions of Visual Studio are created using the different AppIds. The Visual Studio Express edition products are installed with their own AppIds, but the Standard, Professional, and Team Suite products share the same AppId. Consequently, one can install the Express editions side-by-side with other editions, unlike the other editions which update the same installation. The professional edition includes a superset of the VSPackages in the standard edition, and the team suite includes a superset of the VSPackages in both other editions. The AppId system is leveraged by the Visual Studio Shell in Visual Studio 2008.[19]

Features[edit]

Code editor[edit]

Visual Studio includes a code editor that supports syntax highlighting and code completion using IntelliSense for variables, functions, methods, loops, and LINQ queries.[20] IntelliSense is supported for the included languages, as well as for XML, Cascading Style Sheets, and JavaScript when developing web sites and web applications.[21][22] Autocomplete suggestions appear in a modeless list box over the code editor window, in proximity of the editing cursor. In Visual Studio 2008 onwards, it can be made temporarily semi-transparent to see the code obstructed by it.[20] The code editor is used for all supported languages.

The Visual Studio Code Editor also supports setting bookmarks in code for quick navigation. Other navigational aids include collapsing code blocks and incremental search, in addition to normal text search and regex search.[23] The code editor also includes a multi-item clipboard and a task list.[23] The code editor supports code snippets, which are saved templates for repetitive code and can be inserted into code and customized for the project being worked on. A management tool for code snippets is built in as well. These tools are surfaced as floating windows which can be set to automatically hide when unused or docked to the side of the screen. The Visual Studio code editor also supports code refactoring including parameter reordering, variable and method renaming, interface extraction, and encapsulation of class members inside properties, among others. An online version of Visual Studio Code is available at Visual Studio Code

Debugger[edit]

Visual Studio includes a debugger that works both as a source-level debugger and as a machine-level debugger. It works with both managed code as well as native code and can be used for debugging applications written in any language supported by Visual Studio. In addition, it can also attach to running processes, monitor, and debug those processes.[24] If source code for the running process is available, it displays the code as it is being run. If source code is not available, it can show the disassembly. The Visual Studio debugger can also create memory dumps as well as load them later for debugging.[25] Multi-threaded programs are also supported. The debugger can be configured to be launched when an application running outside the Visual Studio environment crashes.

The Visual Studio Debugger allows setting breakpoints (which allow execution to be stopped temporarily at a certain position) and watches (which monitor the values of variables as the execution progresses).[26] Breakpoints can be conditional, meaning they get triggered when the condition is met. Code can be stepped over, i.e., run one line (of source code) at a time.[27] It can either step into functions to debug inside it, or step over it, i.e., the execution of the function body isn’t available for manual inspection.[27] The debugger supports Edit and Continue, i.e., it allows code to be edited as it is being debugged. When debugging, if the mouse pointer hovers over any variable, its current value is displayed in a tooltip («data tooltips»), where it can also be modified if desired. During coding, the Visual Studio debugger lets certain functions be invoked manually from the Immediate tool window. The parameters to the method are supplied at the Immediate window.[28]

Designer[edit]

Visual Studio includes a host of visual designers to aid in the development of applications. These tools include:

Windows Forms Designer
The Windows Forms designer is used to build GUI applications using Windows Forms. Layout can be controlled by housing the controls inside other containers or locking them to the side of the form. Controls that display data (like textbox, list box and grid view) can be bound to data sources like databases or queries. Data-bound controls can be created by dragging items from the Data Sources window onto a design surface.[29] The UI is linked with code using an event-driven programming model. The designer generates either C# or VB.NET code for the application.
WPF Designer
The WPF designer, codenamed Cider,[30] was introduced with Visual Studio 2008. Like the Windows Forms designer it supports the drag and drop metaphor. It is used to author user interfaces targeting Windows Presentation Foundation. It supports all WPF functionality including data binding and automatic layout management. It generates XAML code for the UI. The generated XAML file is compatible with Microsoft Expression Design, the designer-oriented product. The XAML code is linked with code using a code-behind model.
Web designer/development
Visual Studio also includes a web-site editor and designer that allows web pages to be authored by dragging and dropping widgets. It is used for developing ASP.NET applications and supports HTML, CSS and JavaScript. It uses a code-behind model to link with ASP.NET code. From Visual Studio 2008 onwards, the layout engine used by the web designer is shared with the discontinued Expression Web. There is also ASP.NET MVC support for MVC technology as a separate download[31] and ASP.NET Dynamic Data project available from Microsoft.[32]
Class designer
The Class Designer is used to author and edit the classes (including its members and their access) using UML modeling. The Class Designer can generate C# and VB.NET code outlines for the classes and methods. It can also generate class diagrams from hand-written classes.
Data designer
The data designer can be used to graphically edit database schemas, including typed tables, primary and foreign keys and constraints. It can also be used to design queries from the graphical view.
Mapping designer
From Visual Studio 2008 onwards, the mapping designer is used by LINQ to SQL to design the mapping between database schemas and the classes that encapsulate the data. The new solution from ORM approach, ADO.NET Entity Framework, replaces and improves the old technology.

Other tools[edit]

Properties Editor
The Properties Editor tool is used to edit properties in a GUI pane inside Visual Studio. It lists all available properties (both read-only and those which can be set) for all objects including classes, forms, web pages and other items.
Object Browser
The Object Browser is a namespace and class library browser for Microsoft .NET. It can be used to browse the namespaces (which are arranged hierarchically) in managed assemblies. The hierarchy may or may not reflect the organization in the file system.
Solution Explorer
In Visual Studio parlance, a solution is a set of code files and other resources that are used to build an application. The files in a solution are arranged hierarchically, which might or might not reflect the organization in the file system. The Solution Explorer is used to manage and browse the files in a solution.
Team Explorer
Team Explorer is used to integrate the capabilities of Azure DevOps (either Azure DevOps Services or Azure DevOps Server) into the IDE . In addition to version control integration it provides the ability to view and manage individual work items (including user stories, bugs, tasks and other documents). It is included as part of a Visual Studio installation and is also available as a standalone download.[33][34]
Data Explorer
Data Explorer is used to manage databases on Microsoft SQL Server instances. It allows creation and alteration of database tables (either by issuing T-SQL commands or by using the Data designer). It can also be used to create queries and stored procedures, with the latter in either T-SQL or in managed code via SQL CLR. Debugging and IntelliSense support is available as well.
Server Explorer
The Server Explorer tool is used to manage database connections on an accessible computer. It is also used to browse running Windows Services, performance counters, Windows Event Log and message queues and use them as a datasource.[35]
Dotfuscator Community Edition
Visual Studio includes a free ‘light’ version of Dotfuscator[36]
Text Generation Framework
Visual Studio includes a full text generation framework called T4 which enables Visual Studio to generate text files from templates either in the IDE or via code.
ASP.NET Web Site Administration Tool
The ASP.NET Web Site Administration Tool allows for the configuration of ASP.NET websites.
Visual Studio Tools for Office
Visual Studio Tools for Office is a SDK and an add-in for Visual Studio that includes tools for developing for the Microsoft Office suite. Previously (for Visual Studio .NET 2003 and Visual Studio 2005) it was a separate SKU that supported only Visual C# and Visual Basic languages or was included in the Team Suite. With Visual Studio 2008, it is no longer a separate SKU but is included with Professional and higher editions. A separate runtime is required when deploying VSTO solutions.

Testing Tools[edit]

Microsoft Visual Studio can write high-quality code with comprehensive testing tools to aid in the development of applications. These tools include:[37]

Unit testing, IntelliTset, Live Unit Testing, Test Explorer, CodeLens test indicators, Code coverage analysis, Fakes.[37]

Extensibility[edit]

Visual Studio allows developers to write extensions for Visual Studio to extend its capabilities. These extensions «plug into» Visual Studio and extend its functionality. Extensions come in the form of macros, add-ins, and packages. Macros represent repeatable tasks and actions that developers can record programmatically for saving, replaying, and distributing. Macros, however, cannot implement new commands or create tool windows. They are written using Visual Basic and are not compiled.[12] Add-Ins provide access to the Visual Studio object model and can interact with the IDE tools. Add-Ins can be used to implement new functionality and can add new tool windows. Add-Ins are plugged into the IDE via COM and can be created in any COM-compliant languages.[12] Packages are created using the Visual Studio SDK and provide the highest level of extensibility. They can create designers and other tools, as well as integrate other programming languages. The Visual Studio SDK provides unmanaged APIs as well as a managed API to accomplish these tasks. However, the managed API isn’t as comprehensive as the unmanaged one.[12] Extensions are supported in the Standard (and higher) versions of Visual Studio 2005. Express Editions do not support hosting extensions.

Visual Studio 2008 introduced the Visual Studio Shell that allows for development of a customized version of the IDE. The Visual Studio Shell defines a set of VSPackages that provide the functionality required in any IDE. On top of that, other packages can be added to customize the installation. The Isolated mode of the shell creates a new AppId where the packages are installed. These are to be started with a different executable. It is aimed for development of custom development environments, either for a specific language or a specific scenario. The Integrated mode installs the packages into the AppId of the Professional/Standard/Team System editions, so that the tools integrate into these editions.[19] The Visual Studio Shell is available as a free download.

After the release of Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft created the Visual Studio Gallery. It serves as the central location for posting information about extensions to Visual Studio. Community developers as well as commercial developers can upload information about their extensions to Visual Studio .NET 2002 through Visual Studio 2010. Users of the site can rate and review the extensions to help assess the quality of extensions being posted. An extension is stored in a VSIX file. Internally a VSIX file is a ZIP file that contains some XML files, and possibly one or more DLL’s. One of the main advantages of these extensions is that they do not require Administrator rights to be installed. RSS feeds to notify users on updates to the site and tagging features are also planned.[38]

Supported products[edit]

Microsoft Visual C++
Microsoft Visual C++ is Microsoft’s partial implementation of the C and full implementation C++ compiler and associated languages-services and specific tools for integration with the Visual Studio IDE. It can compile either in C mode or C++ mode. For C++, as of version 15.7 it conforms to C++17.[39] The C implementation of Visual Studio 2015 still doesn’t support the full standard; in particular, the complex number header complex.h introduced in C99 is unsupported.
Visual C++ supports the C++/CLI specification to write managed code, as well as mixed-mode code (a mix of native and managed code). Microsoft positions Visual C++ for development in native code or in code that contains both native as well as managed components. Visual C++ supports COM as well as the MFC library. For MFC development, it provides a set of wizards for creating and customizing MFC boilerplate code, and creating GUI applications using MFC. Visual C++ can also use the Visual Studio forms designer to design UI graphically. Visual C++ can also be used with the Windows API. It also supports the use of intrinsic functions,[40] which are functions recognized by the compiler itself and not implemented as a library. Intrinsic functions are used to expose the SSE instruction set of modern CPUs. Visual C++ also includes the OpenMP (version 2.0) specification.[41]
Microsoft Visual C#
Microsoft Visual C#, Microsoft’s implementation of the C# language, targets the .NET Framework, along with the language services that lets the Visual Studio IDE support C# projects. While the language services are a part of Visual Studio, the compiler is available separately as a part of the .NET Framework. The Visual C# 2008, 2010 and 2012 compilers support versions 3.0, 4.0 and 5.0 of the C# language specifications, respectively. Visual C# supports the Visual Studio Class designer, Forms designer, and Data designer among others.[42]
Microsoft Visual Basic
Microsoft Visual Basic is Microsoft’s implementation of the VB.NET language and associated tools and language services. It was introduced with Visual Studio .NET (2002). Microsoft has positioned Visual Basic for Rapid Application Development.[43][44] Visual Basic can be used to author both console applications as well as GUI applications. Like Visual C#, Visual Basic also supports the Visual Studio Class designer, Forms designer, and Data designer among others. Like C#, the VB.NET compiler is also available as a part of .NET Framework, but the language services that let VB.NET projects be developed with Visual Studio, are available as a part of the latter.
Microsoft Visual Web Developer
Microsoft Visual Web Developer is used to create web sites, web applications and web services using ASP.NET. Either C# or VB.NET languages can be used. Visual Web Developer can use the Visual Studio Web Designer to graphically design web page layouts.
Azure DevOps
Azure DevOps is intended for collaborative software development projects and provides version control, work planning and tracking, data collection, and reporting. It also includes the Team Explorer which is integrated inside Visual Studio. On September 10, 2018, Microsoft announced a rebranding of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to Azure DevOps Services and Team Foundation Server (TFS) to Azure DevOps Server.[45]

Previous products[edit]

Visual FoxPro
Visual FoxPro is a data-centric object-oriented and procedural programming language produced by Microsoft. It derives from FoxPro (originally known as FoxBASE) which was developed by Fox Software beginning in 1984. Visual FoxPro is tightly integrated with its own relational database engine, which extends FoxPro’s xBase capabilities to support SQL queries and data manipulation. Visual FoxPro is a full-featured,[46] dynamic programming language that does not require the use of an additional general-purpose programming environment. In 2007, Visual FoxPro was discontinued after version 9 Service Pack 2. It was supported until 2015.[47]
Visual SourceSafe
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe is a source control software package oriented towards small software-development projects. The SourceSafe database is a multi-user, multi-process file-system database, using the Windows file system database primitives to provide locking and sharing support. All versions are multi-user, using SMB (file server) networking.[48][49][50] However, with Visual SourceSafe 2005, other client–server modes were added, Lan Booster and VSS Internet (which used HTTP/HTTPS). Visual SourceSafe 6.0 was available as a stand-alone product[51] and was included with Visual Studio 6.0, and other products such as Office Developer Edition. Visual SourceSafe 2005 was available as a stand-alone product and included with the 2005 Team Suite. Azure DevOps has superseded VSS as Microsoft’s recommended platform for source control.
Microsoft Visual J++/Microsoft Visual J#
Microsoft Visual J++ was Microsoft’s implementation of the Java language (with Microsoft-specific extensions) and associated language services. It was discontinued as a result of litigation from Sun Microsystems, and the technology was recycled into Visual J#, Microsoft’s Java compiler for .NET Framework. J# was available with Visual Studio 2005 (supported until 2015) but was discontinued in Visual Studio 2008.
Visual InterDev
Visual InterDev was used to create web applications using Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) technologies. It supports code completion and includes database server management tools. It has been replaced with Microsoft Visual Web Developer.

Editions[edit]

Microsoft Visual Studio is available in the following editions or SKUs:[52]

[edit]

The Community edition was announced on November 12, 2014, as a new free version, with similar functionality to Visual Studio Professional. Prior to this date, the only free editions of Visual Studio were the feature-limited Express variants. Unlike the Express variants, Visual Studio Community supports multiple languages, and provides support for extensions. Individual developers have no restrictions on their use of the Community edition. The following uses also allow unlimited usage: contributing to Open Source projects, academic research, in a classroom learning environment and for developing and testing device drivers for the Windows operating system. All other use by an organization depends on its classification as an Enterprise (more than 250 employees or more than 1 million USD in annual revenue, per Microsoft).[53] Non-Enterprises may use up to 5 copies without restriction, user number 6 and higher require a commercial license; Enterprise organizations require a commercial license for use outside of the noted exceptions.[53][54] Visual Studio Community is oriented towards individual developers and small teams.

Professional[edit]

As of Visual Studio 2010, the Professional edition is the entry level commercial edition of Visual Studio. (Previously, a more feature restricted Standard edition was available.)[57] It provides an IDE for all supported development languages. MSDN support is available as MSDN Essentials or the full MSDN library depending on licensing. It supports XML and XSLT editing, and can create deployment packages that only use ClickOnce and MSI. It includes tools like Server Explorer and integration with Microsoft SQL Server also. Windows Mobile development support was included in Visual Studio 2005 Standard, however, with Visual Studio 2008, it is only available in Professional and higher editions. Windows Phone 7 development support was added to all editions in Visual Studio 2010. Development for Windows Mobile is no longer supported in Visual Studio 2010. It is superseded by Windows Phone 7.

Enterprise[edit]

In addition to the features provided by the Professional edition, the Enterprise edition provides a new set of software development, database development, collaboration, metrics, architecture, testing and reporting tools.

History[edit]

The first version of Visual Studio was Visual Studio 97.[58] Before that, Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual FoxPro and Visual SourceSafe were sold as separate products.

97[edit]

Microsoft first released Visual Studio (codenamed Boston,[59] for the city of the same name, thus beginning the VS codenames related to places)[59] in 1997, bundling many of its programming tools together for the first time. Visual Studio 97 came in two editions: Visual Studio Professional and Visual Studio Enterprise, the professional edition has three CDs, and the enterprise four CDs. It included Visual J++ 1.1 for Java programming and introduced Visual InterDev for creating dynamically generated web sites using Active Server Pages.[citation needed] There was a single companion CD that contained the Microsoft Developer Network library.

Visual Studio 97 was an attempt at using the same development environment for multiple languages. Visual J++, InterDev, and the MSDN Library had all been using the same ‘environment’, called Developer Studio.[120]

Visual Studio was also sold as a bundle with the separate IDEs used for Visual C++, Visual Basic and Visual FoxPro.[19]

6.0 (1998)[edit]

The next version, version 6.0 (codenamed Aspen, after the ski resort in Colorado),[citation needed] was released in June 1998 and is the last version to run on the Windows 9x platform.[121] Each version of each language in part also settled to v6.0, including Visual J++ which was prior v1.1, and Visual InterDev at the first release. The v6 edition of Microsoft was the core environment for the next four releases to provide programmers with an integrated look-alike platform. This led Microsoft to transition the development on the platform independent .NET Framework.

Visual Studio 6.0 was the last version to include Visual J++,[122][123] which Microsoft removed as part of a settlement with Sun Microsystems that required Microsoft Internet Explorer not to provide support for the Java Virtual Machine.

Visual Studio 6.0 came in two editions: Professional and Enterprise.[124] The Enterprise edition contained extra features not found in Professional edition, including:

  • Application Performance Explorer
  • Automation Manager
  • Microsoft Visual Modeler
  • RemAuto Connection Manager[citation needed]
  • Visual Studio Analyzer

Visual Studio was also sold as a bundle with the separate IDEs used for Visual C++, Visual Basic and Visual FoxPro.[19]

.NET 2002[edit]

The default start page of Visual Studio .NET 2002, running on Windows XP

Microsoft released Visual Studio .NET (VS.NET), codenamed Rainier (for Washington’s Mount Rainier),[citation needed] in February 2002 (the beta version was released via Microsoft Developer Network in 2001). The biggest change was the introduction of a managed code development environment using the .NET Framework. Programs developed using .NET are not compiled to machine language (like C++ is, for example) but instead to a format called Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL) or Common Intermediate Language (CIL). When a CIL application executes, it is compiled while being executed into the appropriate machine language for the platform it is being executed on, thereby making code portable across several platforms. Programs compiled into CIL can be executed only on platforms which have an implementation of Common Language Infrastructure. It is possible to run CIL programs in Linux or Mac OS X using non-Microsoft .NET implementations like Mono and DotGNU.

This was the first version of Visual Studio to require an NT-based Windows platform.[125] The installer enforces this requirement.

Visual Studio .NET 2002 shipped in four editions: Academic, Professional, Enterprise Developer, and Enterprise Architect. Microsoft introduced C# (C-sharp), a new programming language, that targets .NET. It also introduced the successor to Visual J++ called Visual J#. Visual J# programs use Java’s language-syntax. However, unlike Visual J++ programs, Visual J# programs can only target the .NET Framework, not the Java Virtual Machine that all other Java tools target.

Visual Basic changed drastically to fit the new framework, and the new version was called Visual Basic .NET. Microsoft also added extensions to C++, called Managed Extensions for C++, so .NET programs could be created in C++.

Visual Studio .NET can produce applications targeting Windows (using the Windows Forms part of the .NET Framework), the Web (using ASP.NET and Web Services) and, with an add-in, portable devices (using the .NET Compact Framework).

The internal version number of Visual Studio .NET 2002 is version 7.0. Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio .NET 2002 in March 2005.[126]

.NET 2003[edit]

Default start page of Visual Studio .NET 2003 running on Windows XP

In April 2003, Microsoft introduced a minor upgrade to Visual Studio .NET called Visual Studio .NET 2003, codenamed Everett (for the city of the same name).[citation needed] It includes an upgrade to the .NET Framework, version 1.1, and is the first release to support developing programs for mobile devices, using ASP.NET or the .NET Compact Framework. The Visual C++ compiler’s standards-compliance improved, especially in the area of partial template specialization. Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 is a version of the same C++ compiler shipped with Visual Studio .NET 2003 without the IDE that Microsoft made freely available. As of 2010 it is no longer available and the Express Editions have superseded it. Visual Studio .NET 2003 also supports Managed C++, which is the predecessor of C++/CLI. The internal version number of Visual Studio .NET 2003 is version 7.1 while the file format version is 8.0.[127] Visual Studio .NET 2003 is the last version to support Windows NT 4.0 SP6a, Windows 2000 versions below SP3 and Windows XP before SP2.

Visual Studio .NET 2003 shipped in five editions: Academic, Standard, Professional, Enterprise Developer, and Enterprise Architect. The Visual Studio .NET 2003 Enterprise Architect edition includes an implementation of Microsoft Visio 2002’s modeling technologies, including tools for creating Unified Modeling Language-based visual representations of an application’s architecture, and an object-role modeling (ORM) and logical database-modeling solution. «Enterprise Templates» were also introduced, to help larger development teams standardize coding styles and enforce policies around component usage and property settings.

Service Pack 1 was released September 13, 2006.[128]

2005[edit]

Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 Team Suite installation disc

Visual Studio 2005, codenamed Whidbey (a reference to Whidbey Island in Puget Sound region),[citation needed] was released online in October 2005 and to retail stores a few weeks later. Microsoft removed the «.NET» moniker from Visual Studio 2005 (as well as every other product with .NET in its name), but it still primarily targets the .NET Framework, which was upgraded to version 2.0. It is the last version to support Windows Server 2003 below SP1, and thus the last version able to target Windows 98, Windows 2000 and Windows Me for C++ applications.[129][130]

Visual Studio 2005’s internal version number is 8.0 while the file format version is 9.0.[127] Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2005 on December 14, 2006.[131] An additional update for Service Pack 1 that offers Windows Vista compatibility was made available on June 3, 2007.[132]

Visual Studio 2005 was upgraded to support all the new features introduced in .NET Framework 2.0, including generics and ASP.NET 2.0. The IntelliSense feature in Visual Studio was upgraded for generics and new project types were added to support ASP.NET web services. Visual Studio 2005 additionally introduces support for a new task-based build platform called Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) which employs a new XML-based project file format.[133] Visual Studio 2005 also includes a local web server, separate from IIS, that can host ASP.NET applications during development and testing. It also supports all SQL Server 2005 databases. Database designers were upgraded to support the ADO.NET 2.0, which is included with .NET Framework 2.0. C++ also got a similar upgrade with the addition of C++/CLI which is slated to replace the use of Managed C++.[134] Other new features of Visual Studio 2005 include the «Deployment Designer» which allows application designs to be validated before deployments, an improved environment for web publishing when combined with ASP.NET 2.0 and load testing to see application performance under various sorts of user loads. Starting with the 2005 edition, Visual Studio also added extensive 64-bit support. While the host development environment itself is only available as a 32-bit application, Visual C++ 2005 supports compiling for x86-64 (AMD64 and Intel 64) as well as IA-64 (Itanium).[135] The Platform SDK included 64-bit compilers and 64-bit versions of the libraries.

Microsoft also announced Visual Studio Tools for Applications as the successor to Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and VSA (Visual Studio for Applications). VSTA 1.0 was released to manufacturing along with Office 2007. It is included with Office 2007 and is also part of the Visual Studio 2005 SDK. VSTA consists of a customized IDE, based on the Visual Studio 2005 IDE, and a runtime that can be embedded in applications to expose its features via the .NET object model. Office 2007 applications continue to integrate with VBA, except for InfoPath 2007 which integrates with VSTA. Version 2.0 of VSTA (based on Visual Studio 2008) was released in April 2008.[136] It is significantly different from the first version, including features such as dynamic programming and support for WPF, WCF, WF, LINQ, and .NET 3.5 Framework.

2008[edit]

Visual Studio 2008,[137] and Visual Studio Team System 2008[138][139] codenamed Orcas (a reference to Orcas Island, also an island in Puget Sound region, like Whidbey for the previous 2005 release), were released to MSDN subscribers on November 19, 2007, alongside .NET Framework 3.5. The source code for the Visual Studio 2008 IDE is available under a shared source license to some of Microsoft’s partners and ISVs.[84] Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2008 on August 11, 2008.[140] The internal version number of Visual Studio 2008 is version 9.0 while the file format version is 10.0. Visual Studio 2008 is the last version able to target Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP1 and Windows Vista RTM for C++ applications.[141]

Visual Studio 2008 is focused on development of Windows Vista, 2007 Office system, and Web applications. For visual design, a new Windows Presentation Foundation visual designer and a new HTML/CSS editor influenced by Microsoft Expression Web are included. J# is not included. Visual Studio 2008 requires .NET 3.5 Framework and by default configures compiled assemblies to run on .NET Framework 3.5, but it also supports multi-targeting which lets the developers choose which version of the .NET Framework (out of 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, Silverlight CoreCLR or .NET Compact Framework) the assembly runs on. Visual Studio 2008 also includes new code analysis tools, including the new Code Metrics tool (only in Team Edition and Team Suite Edition).[142] For Visual C++, Visual Studio adds a new version of Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC 9.0) that adds support for the visual styles and UI controls introduced with Windows Vista.[143] For native and managed code interoperability, Visual C++ introduces the STL/CLR, which is a port of the C++ Standard Template Library (STL) containers and algorithms to managed code. STL/CLR defines STL-like containers, iterators and algorithms that work on C++/CLI managed objects.[144][145]

Visual Studio 2008 features include an XAML-based designer (codenamed Cider), workflow designer, LINQ to SQL designer (for defining the type mappings and object encapsulation for SQL Server data), XSLT debugger, JavaScript Intellisense support, JavaScript Debugging support, support for UAC manifests, a concurrent build system, among others.[146] It ships with an enhanced set of UI widgets, both for Windows Forms and WPF. It also includes a multithreaded build engine (MSBuild) to compile multiple source files (and build the executable file) in a project across multiple threads simultaneously. It also includes support for compiling icon resources in PNG format, introduced in Windows Vista. An updated XML Schema designer was released separately some time after the release of Visual Studio 2008.[147]

Visual Studio Debugger includes features targeting easier debugging of multi-threaded applications. In debugging mode, in the Threads window, which lists all the threads, hovering over a thread displays the stack trace of that thread in tooltips.[148] The threads can directly be named and flagged for easier identification from that window itself.[149] In addition, in the code window, along with indicating the location of the currently executing instruction in the current thread, the currently executing instructions in other threads are also pointed out.[149][150] The Visual Studio debugger supports integrated debugging of the .NET 3.5 Framework Base Class Library (BCL) which can dynamically download the BCL source code and debug symbols and allow stepping into the BCL source during debugging.[151] As of 2010 a limited subset of the BCL source is available, with more library support planned for later.

2010[edit]

On April 12, 2010, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010, codenamed Dev10,[89] and .NET Framework 4.[152][153] It is the last version to support Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP1, Windows Server 2008 below SP2, Windows 7 before SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 before SP1.

The Visual Studio 2010 IDE was redesigned which, according to Microsoft, clears the UI organization and «reduces clutter and complexity.»[154] The new IDE better supports multiple document windows and floating tool windows,[154] while offering better multi-monitor support. The IDE shell has been rewritten using the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), whereas the internals have been redesigned using Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) that offers more extensibility points than previous versions of the IDE that enabled add-ins to modify the behavior of the IDE.[155]

The new multi-paradigm ML-variant F# forms part of Visual Studio 2010.[156]

Visual Studio 2010 comes with .NET Framework 4 and supports developing applications targeting Windows 7.[154] It supports IBM Db2 and Oracle databases, in addition to Microsoft SQL Server.[154] It has integrated support for developing Microsoft Silverlight applications, including an interactive designer.[154] Visual Studio 2010 offers several tools to make parallel programming simpler: in addition to the Parallel Extensions for the .NET Framework and the Parallel Patterns Library for native code, Visual Studio 2010 includes tools for debugging parallel applications. The new tools allow the visualization of parallel Tasks and their runtime stacks.[157] Tools for profiling parallel applications can be used for visualization of thread wait-times and thread migrations across processor cores.[158] Intel and Microsoft have jointly pledged support for a new Concurrency Runtime in Visual Studio 2010[159]
and Intel has launched parallelism support in Parallel Studio as an add-on for Visual Studio.[160]

The Visual Studio 2010 code editor now highlights references; whenever a symbol is selected, all other usages of the symbol are highlighted.[161] It also offers a Quick Search feature to incrementally search across all symbols in C++, C# and VB.NET projects. Quick Search supports substring matches and camelCase searches.[161] The Call Hierarchy feature allows the developer to see all the methods that are called from a current method as well as the methods that call the current one.[161] IntelliSense in Visual Studio supports a consume-first mode which developers can opt into. In this mode, IntelliSense does not auto-complete identifiers; this allows the developer to use undefined identifiers (like variable or method names) and define those later. Visual Studio 2010 can also help in this by automatically defining them, if it can infer their types from usage.[161] Current versions of Visual Studio have a known bug which makes IntelliSense unusable for projects using pure C (not C++).[162]

Visual Studio 2010 features a new Help System replacing the MSDN Library viewer. The Help System is no longer based on Microsoft Help 2 and does not use Microsoft Document Explorer. Dynamic help containing links to help items based on what the developer was doing at the time was removed in the final release,[163] but can be added back using a download from Microsoft.[164]

Visual Studio 2010 no longer supports development for Windows Mobile prior to Windows Phone 7. Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 was released in March 2011.[165]

Ultimate 2010[edit]

Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 replaces Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite.[166] It includes new modeling tools,[167] such as the Architecture Explorer, which graphically displays projects and classes and the relationships between them.[168]
It supports UML activity diagram, component diagram, (logical) class diagram, sequence diagram, and use case diagram.[168] Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 also includes Test Impact Analysis which provides hints on which test cases are impacted by modifications to the source code, without actually running the test cases.[169] This speeds up testing by avoiding running unnecessary test cases.

Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 also includes a historical debugger for managed code called IntelliTrace. Unlike a traditional debugger that records only the currently active stack, IntelliTrace records all events, such as prior function calls, method parameters, events and exceptions. This allows the code execution to be rewound in case a breakpoint was not set where the error occurred.[170] Debugging with IntelliTrace causes the application to run more slowly than debugging without it, and uses more memory as additional data needs to be recorded. Microsoft allows configuration of how much data should be recorded, in effect, allowing developers to balance the speed of execution and resource usage. The Lab Management component of Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 uses virtualization to create a similar execution environment for testers and developers. The virtual machines are tagged with checkpoints which can later be investigated for issues, as well as to reproduce the issue.[171] Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 also includes the capability to record test runs that capture the specific state of the operating environment as well as the precise steps used to run the test. These steps can then be played back to reproduce issues.[172]

2012[edit]

Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 logo

The final build of Visual Studio 2012 was announced on August 1, 2012, and the official launch event was held on September 12, 2012.[173]

Unlike prior versions, Visual Studio 2012 cannot record and play macros and the macro editor has been removed.[174]

New features include support for WinRT and C++/CX (Component Extensions) and C++ AMP (GPGPU programming) Semantic Colorization.[175]

On September 16, 2011, a complete ‘Developer Preview’ of Visual Studio 11 was published on Microsoft’s website. Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview requires Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8, or later operating systems.[176] Versions of Microsoft Foundation Class Library (MFC) and C runtime (CRT) included with this release cannot produce software that is compatible with Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 except by using native multi-targeting and foregoing the newest libraries, compilers, and headers.[177] However, on June 15, 2012, a blog post on the VC++ Team blog announced that based on customer feedback, Microsoft would re-introduce native support for Windows XP targets (though not for XP as a development platform) in a version of Visual C++ to be released later in the fall of 2012.[178] «Visual Studio 2012 Update 1» (Visual Studio 2012.1) was released in November 2012. This update added support for Windows XP targets and also added other new tools and features (e.g. improved diagnostics and testing support for Windows Store apps).[179]

On August 24, 2011, a blog post by Sumit Kumar, a Program Manager on the Visual C++ team, listed some of the features of the upcoming version of the Visual Studio C++ IDE:[180]

  • Semantic colorization: Improved syntax coloring, various user-defined or default colors for C++ syntax such as macros, enumerations, typenames and functions.[180]
  • Reference highlighting: Selection of a symbol highlights all of the references to that symbol within scope.[180]
  • New Solution Explorer: The new Solution Explorer allows for visualization of class and file hierarchies within a solution/project. It can search for calls to functions and uses of classes.[180]
  • Automatic display of IntelliSense list: IntelliSense is automatically displayed whilst typing code, as opposed to previous versions where it had to be explicitly invoked through use of certain operators (i.e. the scope operator (::)) or shortcut keys (Ctrl-Space or Ctrl-J).[180]
  • Member list filtering: IntelliSense uses fuzzy logic to determine which functions/variables/types to display in the list.[180]
  • Code snippets: Code snippets are included in IntelliSense to automatically generate relevant code based on the user’s parameters, custom code snippets can be created.[180]

The source code of Visual Studio 2012 consists of approximately 50 million lines of code.[181]

Interface backlash[edit]

During Visual Studio 11 beta, Microsoft eliminated the use of color within tools except in cases where color is used for notification or status change purposes. However, the use of color was returned after feedback demanding more contrast, differentiation, clarity and «energy» in the user interface.[182][183]

In the Visual Studio 2012 release candidate (RC), a major change to the interface is the use of all-caps menu bar, as part of the campaign to keep Visual Studio consistent with the direction of other Microsoft user interfaces, and to provide added structure to the top menu bar area.[184] The redesign was criticized for being hard to read, and going against the trends started by developers to use CamelCase to make words stand out better.[185] Some speculated that the root cause of the redesign was to incorporate the simplistic look and feel of Metro programs.[186] However, there exists a Windows Registry option to allow users to disable the all-caps interface.[187]

2013[edit]

The preview for Visual Studio 2013 was announced at the Build 2013 conference and made available on June 26, 2013.[188] The Visual Studio 2013 RC (Release Candidate) was made available to developers on MSDN on September 9, 2013.[189]

The final release of Visual Studio 2013 became available for download on October 17, 2013, along with .NET 4.5.1.[190] Visual Studio 2013 officially launched on November 13, 2013, at a virtual launch event keynoted by S. Somasegar and hosted on events.visualstudio.com.[191] «Visual Studio 2013 Update 1» (Visual Studio 2013.1) was released on January 20, 2014.[192]
Visual Studio 2013.1 is a targeted update that addresses some key areas of customer feedback.[193]
«Visual Studio 2013 Update 2» (Visual Studio 2013.2) was released on May 12, 2014.[194]
Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 was released on August 4, 2014. With this update, Visual Studio provides an option to disable the all-caps menus, which was introduced in VS2012.[195]
«Visual Studio 2013 Update 4» (Visual Studio 2013.4) was released on November 12, 2014.[196]
«Visual Studio 2013 Update 5» (Visual Studio 2013.5) was released on July 20, 2015.[197]

2015[edit]

Initially referred to as Visual Studio «14», the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) was released on June 3, 2014[198] and the Release Candidate was released on April 29, 2015; Visual Studio 2015 was officially announced as the final name on November 12, 2014.[199]

Visual Studio 2015 RTM was released on July 20, 2015.[197] Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 was released on November 30, 2015.[197] Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 was released on March 30, 2016.[197] Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 was released on June 27, 2016.[197] Visual Studio 2015 is the last version to support Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows 8.

2017[edit]

Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Logo

Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 logo

Initially referred to as Visual Studio «15», it was released on March 7, 2017.[200] The first Preview was released on March 30, 2016.[201] Visual Studio «15» Preview 2 was released May 10, 2016.[202][203] Visual Studio «15» Preview 3 was released on July 7, 2016.[204][205] Visual Studio «15» Preview 4 was released on August 22, 2016.[206][207] Visual Studio «15» Preview 5 was released on October 5, 2016.[208]

On November 14, 2016, for a brief period of time, Microsoft released a blog post revealing Visual Studio 2017 product name version alongside upcoming features.[209]

On November 16, 2016, «Visual Studio 2017» was announced as the final name,[210] and Visual Studio 2017 RC was released.[211]

On March 7, 2017, Visual Studio 2017 was released for general availability.[211]

On March 14, 2017, first fix was released for Visual Studio 2017 due to failures during installation or opening solutions in the first release.[211]

On April 5, 2017, Visual Studio 2017 15.1 was released and added support for targeting the .NET Framework 4.7.

On May 10, 2017, Visual Studio 2017 15.2 was released and added a new workload, «Data Science and Analytical Applications Workload». An update to fix the dark color theme was released on May 12, 2017.

On August 14, 2017, Visual Studio 2017 15.3 was released and added support for targeting .NET Core 2.0. An update (15.3.1) was released four days later to address a Git vulnerability with submodules (CVE 2017-1000117).

On October 10, 2017, Visual Studio 15.4 was released.[212]

On December 4, 2017, Visual Studio 15.5 was released. This update contained major performance improvements, new features, as well as bug fixes.[213]

On March 6, 2018, Visual Studio 15.6 was released. It includes updates to unit testing and performance.[214]

On May 7, 2018, Visual Studio 15.7 was released. It included updates across the board including, the installer, editor, debugger among others. Almost all point releases, the latest of which is 15.7.6 released August 2, 2018, include security updates. With the release of Visual Studio 2017 15.7, Visual C++ now conforms to the C++17 standard.[39]

On September 20, 2018, Visual Studio 15.8.5 was released. Tools for Xamarin now supports Xcode 10.[215]

Visual Studio 2017 offers new features like support for EditorConfig (a coding style enforcement framework), NGen support, .NET Core and Docker toolset (Preview), and Xamarin 4.3 (Preview).[211] It also has a XAML Editor, improved IntelliSense, live unit testing, debugging enhancement and better IDE experience and productivity.[216] Additionally, it is the last version of Visual Studio to support maintaining Windows 10 Mobile projects.[217]

2019[edit]

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Visual Studio 2019 Icon

On June 6, 2018, Microsoft announced Visual Studio 2019 (version 16).[218]

On December 4, 2018, Visual Studio 2019 Preview 1 was released.[219]

On January 24, 2019, Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2 was released.[220]

On February 13, 2019, Visual Studio 2019 Preview 3 was released.[221]

On February 27, 2019, Visual Studio 2019 RC was released.[222]

It is generally available (GA) since April 2, 2019 and available for download.[223]

2022[edit]

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On April 19, 2021, Microsoft announced Visual Studio 2022 (version 17).[224][225] It is the first version to run as a 64-bit process allowing Visual Studio main process to access more than 4 GB of memory, preventing out-of-memory exceptions which could occur with large projects.

On June 17, 2021, Visual Studio 2022 Preview 1 was released.[226]

On July 14, 2021, Visual Studio 2022 Preview 2 was released.[227]

On August 10, 2021, Visual Studio 2022 Preview 3 was released.[228]

On September 14, 2021, Visual Studio 2022 Preview 4 was released.[229]

On October 12, 2021, Visual Studio 2022 RC and Preview 5 was released while setting November 8, 2021 for its general availability.[230]

It is generally available (GA) since November 8, 2021 and available for download.[231]

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Azure DevOps Services[edit]

On November 13, 2013, Microsoft announced the release of a software as a service offering of Visual Studio on Microsoft Azure platform; at the time, Microsoft called it Visual Studio Online. Previously announced as Team Foundation Services, it expanded over the on-premises Team Foundation Server (TFS; now known as Azure DevOps Server) by making it available on the Internet and implementing a rolling release model.[232][233] Customers could use Azure portal to subscribe to Visual Studio Online. Subscribers receive a hosted Git-compatible version control system, a load-testing service, a telemetry service and an in-browser code editor codenamed «Monaco».[234] During the Connect(); 2015 developer event on November 18, 2015, Microsoft announced that the service was rebranded as «Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)».[235] On September 10, 2018, Microsoft announced another rebranding of the service, this time to «Azure DevOps Services».[45]

Microsoft offers Stakeholder, Basic, and Visual Studio subscriber access levels for Azure DevOps Services. The Basic plan is free of charge for up to five users. Users with a Visual Studio subscription can be added to a plan with no additional charge.[236]

Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management[edit]


Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is a collection of integrated software development tools developed by Microsoft. These tools currently consist of the IDE (Visual Studio 2015 Community and greater editions), server (Team Foundation Server), and cloud services (Visual Studio Team Services).[237] Visual Studio ALM supports team-based development and collaboration, Agile project management, DevOps, source control, packaging, continuous development, automated testing, release management, continuous delivery, and reporting tools for apps and services.[238]

In Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008, the brand was known as Microsoft Visual Studio Team System (VSTS). In October 2009, the Team System brand was renamed[167][239] Visual Studio ALM with the Visual Studio 2010 (codenamed ‘Rosario’) release.[240]

Visual Studio Team Services debuted as Visual Studio Online in 2013 and was renamed in 2015.[241]

Visual Studio Lab Management[edit]

Visual Studio Lab Management is a software development tool developed by Microsoft for software testers to create and manage virtual environments. Lab Management extends the existing Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management platform to enable an integrated Hyper-V based test lab. Since Visual Studio 2012, it is already shipped as a part of it; and, can be set up after Azure DevOps and SCVMM are integrated.[242]

Visual Studio LightSwitch[edit]

Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch is an extension and framework specifically tailored for creating line-of-business applications built on existing .NET technologies and Microsoft platforms. The applications produced are architecturally 3-tier: the user interface runs on either Microsoft Silverlight or HTML 5 client,[243] or as a SharePoint 2013 app;[244] the logic and data-access tier is built on WCF Data Services and exposed as an OData feed hosted[245] in ASP.NET; and the primary data storage supports Microsoft SQL Server Express, Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft SQL Azure. LightSwitch also supports other data sources including Microsoft SharePoint, OData and WCF RIA Services.

LightSwitch includes graphical designers for designing entities and entity relationships, entity queries, and UI screens. Business logic may be written in either Visual Basic or Visual C#. LightSwitch is included with Visual Studio 2012 Professional and higher. Visual Studio 2015 is the last release of Visual Studio that includes the LightSwitch tooling.[246]

The user interface layer is now an optional component when deploying a LightSwitch solution, allowing a service-only deployment.[247]

The first version of Visual Studio LightSwitch, released July 26, 2011,[248] had many differences from the current[when?] release of LightSwitch. Notably the tool was purchased and installed as a stand-alone product. If Visual Studio 2010 Professional or higher was already installed on the machine, LightSwitch would integrate into that.[249] The second major difference was the middle tier was built and exposed using WCF RIA Services.

As of October 14, 2016, Microsoft no longer recommends LightSwitch for new application development.[250]

Visual Studio Code[edit]

Visual Studio Code is a freeware source code editor, along with other features, for Linux, Mac OS, and Windows.[251] It also includes support for debugging and embedded Git Control. It is built on open-source,[252] and on April 14, 2016, version 1.0 was released.[253]

Visual Studio Team System Profiler[edit]

Visual Studio Team System Profiler (VSTS Profiler) is a tool to analyze the performance of .NET projects that analyzes the space and time complexity of the program.[254] It analyzes the code and prepares a report that includes CPU sampling, instrumentation, .NET memory allocation and resource contention.[255]

See also[edit]

  • Comparison of integrated development environments
  • GitHub Copilot
  • Microsoft Small Basic
  • Microsoft Visual Studio Express
  • Visual Studio Code

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Visual Studio

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Screenshot of Visual Studio 2013, editing the source code of a C++ program
Developer(s) Microsoft
Stable release

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Written in
  • C#
  • C++

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Operating system
  • Windows 10 and later
  • Windows Server 2016 and later[3]
  • macOS
Available in 13 languages

List of languages

Chinese, Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish and Turkish[4]
Type Integrated development environment
License Freemium[5]
Website visualstudio.microsoft.com

Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft. It is used to develop computer programs including websites, web apps, web services and mobile apps. Visual Studio uses Microsoft software development platforms such as Windows API, Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Store and Microsoft Silverlight. It can produce both native code and managed code.

Visual Studio includes a code editor supporting IntelliSense (the code completion component) as well as code refactoring. The integrated debugger works as both a source-level debugger and as a machine-level debugger. Other built-in tools include a code profiler, designer for building GUI applications, web designer, class designer, and database schema designer. It accepts plug-ins that expand the functionality at almost every level—including adding support for source control systems (like Subversion and Git) and adding new toolsets like editors and visual designers for domain-specific languages or toolsets for other aspects of the software development lifecycle (like the Azure DevOps client: Team Explorer).

Visual Studio supports 36 different programming languages and allows the code editor and debugger to support (to varying degrees) nearly any programming language, provided a language-specific service exists. Built-in languages include C,[6] C++, C++/CLI, Visual Basic .NET, C#, F#,[7] JavaScript, TypeScript, XML, XSLT, HTML, and CSS. Support for other languages such as Python,[8] Ruby, Node.js, and M among others is available via plug-ins. Java (and J#) were supported in the past.

The most basic edition of Visual Studio, the Community edition, is available free of charge. The slogan for Visual Studio Community edition is «Free, fully-featured IDE for students, open-source and individual developers».

As of January 10, 2023, Visual Studio 2022 is a current production-ready version. Visual Studio 2013, 2015 and 2017 are on Extended Support, while 2019 is on Mainstream Support.[9]

Architecture[edit]

Visual Studio does not support any programming language, solution or tool intrinsically; instead, it allows the plugging of functionality coded as a VSPackage. When installed, the functionality is available as a Service. The IDE provides three services: SVsSolution, which provides the ability to enumerate projects and solutions; SVsUIShell, which provides windowing and UI functionality (including tabs, toolbars, and tool windows); and SVsShell, which deals with registration of VSPackages. In addition, the IDE is also responsible for coordinating and enabling communication between services.[10] All editors, designers, project types and other tools are implemented as VSPackages. Visual Studio uses COM to access the VSPackages. The Visual Studio SDK also includes the Managed Package Framework (MPF), which is a set of managed wrappers around the COM-interfaces that allow the Packages to be written in any CLI compliant language.[11] However, MPF does not provide all the functionality exposed by the Visual Studio COM interfaces.[12]
The services can then be consumed for creation of other packages, which add functionality to the Visual Studio IDE.

Support for programming languages is added by using a specific VSPackage called a Language Service. A language service defines various interfaces which the VSPackage implementation can implement to add support for various functionalities.[13] Functionalities that can be added this way include syntax coloring, statement completion, brace matching, parameter information tooltips, member lists, and error markers for background compilation.[13] If the interface is implemented, the functionality will be available for the language. Language services are implemented on a per-language basis. The implementations can reuse code from the parser or the compiler for the language.[13] Language services can be implemented either in native code or managed code. For native code, either the native COM interfaces or the Babel Framework (part of Visual Studio SDK) can be used.[14] For managed code, the MPF includes wrappers for writing managed language services.[15]

Visual Studio does not include any source control support built in but it defines two alternative ways for source control systems to integrate with the IDE.[16] A Source Control VSPackage can provide its own customised user interface. In contrast, a source control plugin using the MSSCCI (Microsoft Source Code Control Interface) provides a set of functions that are used to implement various source control functionality, with a standard Visual Studio user interface.[17][18] MSSCCI was first used to integrate Visual SourceSafe with Visual Studio 6.0 but was later opened up via the Visual Studio SDK. Visual Studio .NET 2002 used MSSCCI 1.1, and Visual Studio .NET 2003 used MSSCCI 1.2. Visual Studio 2005, 2008, and 2010 use MSSCCI Version 1.3, which adds support for rename and delete propagation, as well as asynchronous opening.[18]

Visual Studio supports running multiple instances of the environment (each with its own set of VSPackages). The instances use different registry hives (see MSDN’s definition of the term «registry hive» in the sense used here) to store their configuration state and are differentiated by their AppId (Application ID). The instances are launched by an AppId-specific .exe that selects the AppId, sets the root hive, and launches the IDE. VSPackages registered for one AppId are integrated with other VSPackages for that AppId. The various product editions of Visual Studio are created using the different AppIds. The Visual Studio Express edition products are installed with their own AppIds, but the Standard, Professional, and Team Suite products share the same AppId. Consequently, one can install the Express editions side-by-side with other editions, unlike the other editions which update the same installation. The professional edition includes a superset of the VSPackages in the standard edition, and the team suite includes a superset of the VSPackages in both other editions. The AppId system is leveraged by the Visual Studio Shell in Visual Studio 2008.[19]

Features[edit]

Code editor[edit]

Visual Studio includes a code editor that supports syntax highlighting and code completion using IntelliSense for variables, functions, methods, loops, and LINQ queries.[20] IntelliSense is supported for the included languages, as well as for XML, Cascading Style Sheets, and JavaScript when developing web sites and web applications.[21][22] Autocomplete suggestions appear in a modeless list box over the code editor window, in proximity of the editing cursor. In Visual Studio 2008 onwards, it can be made temporarily semi-transparent to see the code obstructed by it.[20] The code editor is used for all supported languages.

The Visual Studio Code Editor also supports setting bookmarks in code for quick navigation. Other navigational aids include collapsing code blocks and incremental search, in addition to normal text search and regex search.[23] The code editor also includes a multi-item clipboard and a task list.[23] The code editor supports code snippets, which are saved templates for repetitive code and can be inserted into code and customized for the project being worked on. A management tool for code snippets is built in as well. These tools are surfaced as floating windows which can be set to automatically hide when unused or docked to the side of the screen. The Visual Studio code editor also supports code refactoring including parameter reordering, variable and method renaming, interface extraction, and encapsulation of class members inside properties, among others. An online version of Visual Studio Code is available at Visual Studio Code

Debugger[edit]

Visual Studio includes a debugger that works both as a source-level debugger and as a machine-level debugger. It works with both managed code as well as native code and can be used for debugging applications written in any language supported by Visual Studio. In addition, it can also attach to running processes, monitor, and debug those processes.[24] If source code for the running process is available, it displays the code as it is being run. If source code is not available, it can show the disassembly. The Visual Studio debugger can also create memory dumps as well as load them later for debugging.[25] Multi-threaded programs are also supported. The debugger can be configured to be launched when an application running outside the Visual Studio environment crashes.

The Visual Studio Debugger allows setting breakpoints (which allow execution to be stopped temporarily at a certain position) and watches (which monitor the values of variables as the execution progresses).[26] Breakpoints can be conditional, meaning they get triggered when the condition is met. Code can be stepped over, i.e., run one line (of source code) at a time.[27] It can either step into functions to debug inside it, or step over it, i.e., the execution of the function body isn’t available for manual inspection.[27] The debugger supports Edit and Continue, i.e., it allows code to be edited as it is being debugged. When debugging, if the mouse pointer hovers over any variable, its current value is displayed in a tooltip («data tooltips»), where it can also be modified if desired. During coding, the Visual Studio debugger lets certain functions be invoked manually from the Immediate tool window. The parameters to the method are supplied at the Immediate window.[28]

Designer[edit]

Visual Studio includes a host of visual designers to aid in the development of applications. These tools include:

Windows Forms Designer
The Windows Forms designer is used to build GUI applications using Windows Forms. Layout can be controlled by housing the controls inside other containers or locking them to the side of the form. Controls that display data (like textbox, list box and grid view) can be bound to data sources like databases or queries. Data-bound controls can be created by dragging items from the Data Sources window onto a design surface.[29] The UI is linked with code using an event-driven programming model. The designer generates either C# or VB.NET code for the application.
WPF Designer
The WPF designer, codenamed Cider,[30] was introduced with Visual Studio 2008. Like the Windows Forms designer it supports the drag and drop metaphor. It is used to author user interfaces targeting Windows Presentation Foundation. It supports all WPF functionality including data binding and automatic layout management. It generates XAML code for the UI. The generated XAML file is compatible with Microsoft Expression Design, the designer-oriented product. The XAML code is linked with code using a code-behind model.
Web designer/development
Visual Studio also includes a web-site editor and designer that allows web pages to be authored by dragging and dropping widgets. It is used for developing ASP.NET applications and supports HTML, CSS and JavaScript. It uses a code-behind model to link with ASP.NET code. From Visual Studio 2008 onwards, the layout engine used by the web designer is shared with the discontinued Expression Web. There is also ASP.NET MVC support for MVC technology as a separate download[31] and ASP.NET Dynamic Data project available from Microsoft.[32]
Class designer
The Class Designer is used to author and edit the classes (including its members and their access) using UML modeling. The Class Designer can generate C# and VB.NET code outlines for the classes and methods. It can also generate class diagrams from hand-written classes.
Data designer
The data designer can be used to graphically edit database schemas, including typed tables, primary and foreign keys and constraints. It can also be used to design queries from the graphical view.
Mapping designer
From Visual Studio 2008 onwards, the mapping designer is used by LINQ to SQL to design the mapping between database schemas and the classes that encapsulate the data. The new solution from ORM approach, ADO.NET Entity Framework, replaces and improves the old technology.

Other tools[edit]

Properties Editor
The Properties Editor tool is used to edit properties in a GUI pane inside Visual Studio. It lists all available properties (both read-only and those which can be set) for all objects including classes, forms, web pages and other items.
Object Browser
The Object Browser is a namespace and class library browser for Microsoft .NET. It can be used to browse the namespaces (which are arranged hierarchically) in managed assemblies. The hierarchy may or may not reflect the organization in the file system.
Solution Explorer
In Visual Studio parlance, a solution is a set of code files and other resources that are used to build an application. The files in a solution are arranged hierarchically, which might or might not reflect the organization in the file system. The Solution Explorer is used to manage and browse the files in a solution.
Team Explorer
Team Explorer is used to integrate the capabilities of Azure DevOps (either Azure DevOps Services or Azure DevOps Server) into the IDE . In addition to version control integration it provides the ability to view and manage individual work items (including user stories, bugs, tasks and other documents). It is included as part of a Visual Studio installation and is also available as a standalone download.[33][34]
Data Explorer
Data Explorer is used to manage databases on Microsoft SQL Server instances. It allows creation and alteration of database tables (either by issuing T-SQL commands or by using the Data designer). It can also be used to create queries and stored procedures, with the latter in either T-SQL or in managed code via SQL CLR. Debugging and IntelliSense support is available as well.
Server Explorer
The Server Explorer tool is used to manage database connections on an accessible computer. It is also used to browse running Windows Services, performance counters, Windows Event Log and message queues and use them as a datasource.[35]
Dotfuscator Community Edition
Visual Studio includes a free ‘light’ version of Dotfuscator[36]
Text Generation Framework
Visual Studio includes a full text generation framework called T4 which enables Visual Studio to generate text files from templates either in the IDE or via code.
ASP.NET Web Site Administration Tool
The ASP.NET Web Site Administration Tool allows for the configuration of ASP.NET websites.
Visual Studio Tools for Office
Visual Studio Tools for Office is a SDK and an add-in for Visual Studio that includes tools for developing for the Microsoft Office suite. Previously (for Visual Studio .NET 2003 and Visual Studio 2005) it was a separate SKU that supported only Visual C# and Visual Basic languages or was included in the Team Suite. With Visual Studio 2008, it is no longer a separate SKU but is included with Professional and higher editions. A separate runtime is required when deploying VSTO solutions.

Testing Tools[edit]

Microsoft Visual Studio can write high-quality code with comprehensive testing tools to aid in the development of applications. These tools include:[37]

Unit testing, IntelliTset, Live Unit Testing, Test Explorer, CodeLens test indicators, Code coverage analysis, Fakes.[37]

Extensibility[edit]

Visual Studio allows developers to write extensions for Visual Studio to extend its capabilities. These extensions «plug into» Visual Studio and extend its functionality. Extensions come in the form of macros, add-ins, and packages. Macros represent repeatable tasks and actions that developers can record programmatically for saving, replaying, and distributing. Macros, however, cannot implement new commands or create tool windows. They are written using Visual Basic and are not compiled.[12] Add-Ins provide access to the Visual Studio object model and can interact with the IDE tools. Add-Ins can be used to implement new functionality and can add new tool windows. Add-Ins are plugged into the IDE via COM and can be created in any COM-compliant languages.[12] Packages are created using the Visual Studio SDK and provide the highest level of extensibility. They can create designers and other tools, as well as integrate other programming languages. The Visual Studio SDK provides unmanaged APIs as well as a managed API to accomplish these tasks. However, the managed API isn’t as comprehensive as the unmanaged one.[12] Extensions are supported in the Standard (and higher) versions of Visual Studio 2005. Express Editions do not support hosting extensions.

Visual Studio 2008 introduced the Visual Studio Shell that allows for development of a customized version of the IDE. The Visual Studio Shell defines a set of VSPackages that provide the functionality required in any IDE. On top of that, other packages can be added to customize the installation. The Isolated mode of the shell creates a new AppId where the packages are installed. These are to be started with a different executable. It is aimed for development of custom development environments, either for a specific language or a specific scenario. The Integrated mode installs the packages into the AppId of the Professional/Standard/Team System editions, so that the tools integrate into these editions.[19] The Visual Studio Shell is available as a free download.

After the release of Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft created the Visual Studio Gallery. It serves as the central location for posting information about extensions to Visual Studio. Community developers as well as commercial developers can upload information about their extensions to Visual Studio .NET 2002 through Visual Studio 2010. Users of the site can rate and review the extensions to help assess the quality of extensions being posted. An extension is stored in a VSIX file. Internally a VSIX file is a ZIP file that contains some XML files, and possibly one or more DLL’s. One of the main advantages of these extensions is that they do not require Administrator rights to be installed. RSS feeds to notify users on updates to the site and tagging features are also planned.[38]

Supported products[edit]

Microsoft Visual C++
Microsoft Visual C++ is Microsoft’s partial implementation of the C and full implementation C++ compiler and associated languages-services and specific tools for integration with the Visual Studio IDE. It can compile either in C mode or C++ mode. For C++, as of version 15.7 it conforms to C++17.[39] The C implementation of Visual Studio 2015 still doesn’t support the full standard; in particular, the complex number header complex.h introduced in C99 is unsupported.
Visual C++ supports the C++/CLI specification to write managed code, as well as mixed-mode code (a mix of native and managed code). Microsoft positions Visual C++ for development in native code or in code that contains both native as well as managed components. Visual C++ supports COM as well as the MFC library. For MFC development, it provides a set of wizards for creating and customizing MFC boilerplate code, and creating GUI applications using MFC. Visual C++ can also use the Visual Studio forms designer to design UI graphically. Visual C++ can also be used with the Windows API. It also supports the use of intrinsic functions,[40] which are functions recognized by the compiler itself and not implemented as a library. Intrinsic functions are used to expose the SSE instruction set of modern CPUs. Visual C++ also includes the OpenMP (version 2.0) specification.[41]
Microsoft Visual C#
Microsoft Visual C#, Microsoft’s implementation of the C# language, targets the .NET Framework, along with the language services that lets the Visual Studio IDE support C# projects. While the language services are a part of Visual Studio, the compiler is available separately as a part of the .NET Framework. The Visual C# 2008, 2010 and 2012 compilers support versions 3.0, 4.0 and 5.0 of the C# language specifications, respectively. Visual C# supports the Visual Studio Class designer, Forms designer, and Data designer among others.[42]
Microsoft Visual Basic
Microsoft Visual Basic is Microsoft’s implementation of the VB.NET language and associated tools and language services. It was introduced with Visual Studio .NET (2002). Microsoft has positioned Visual Basic for Rapid Application Development.[43][44] Visual Basic can be used to author both console applications as well as GUI applications. Like Visual C#, Visual Basic also supports the Visual Studio Class designer, Forms designer, and Data designer among others. Like C#, the VB.NET compiler is also available as a part of .NET Framework, but the language services that let VB.NET projects be developed with Visual Studio, are available as a part of the latter.
Microsoft Visual Web Developer
Microsoft Visual Web Developer is used to create web sites, web applications and web services using ASP.NET. Either C# or VB.NET languages can be used. Visual Web Developer can use the Visual Studio Web Designer to graphically design web page layouts.
Azure DevOps
Azure DevOps is intended for collaborative software development projects and provides version control, work planning and tracking, data collection, and reporting. It also includes the Team Explorer which is integrated inside Visual Studio. On September 10, 2018, Microsoft announced a rebranding of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to Azure DevOps Services and Team Foundation Server (TFS) to Azure DevOps Server.[45]

Previous products[edit]

Visual FoxPro
Visual FoxPro is a data-centric object-oriented and procedural programming language produced by Microsoft. It derives from FoxPro (originally known as FoxBASE) which was developed by Fox Software beginning in 1984. Visual FoxPro is tightly integrated with its own relational database engine, which extends FoxPro’s xBase capabilities to support SQL queries and data manipulation. Visual FoxPro is a full-featured,[46] dynamic programming language that does not require the use of an additional general-purpose programming environment. In 2007, Visual FoxPro was discontinued after version 9 Service Pack 2. It was supported until 2015.[47]
Visual SourceSafe
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe is a source control software package oriented towards small software-development projects. The SourceSafe database is a multi-user, multi-process file-system database, using the Windows file system database primitives to provide locking and sharing support. All versions are multi-user, using SMB (file server) networking.[48][49][50] However, with Visual SourceSafe 2005, other client–server modes were added, Lan Booster and VSS Internet (which used HTTP/HTTPS). Visual SourceSafe 6.0 was available as a stand-alone product[51] and was included with Visual Studio 6.0, and other products such as Office Developer Edition. Visual SourceSafe 2005 was available as a stand-alone product and included with the 2005 Team Suite. Azure DevOps has superseded VSS as Microsoft’s recommended platform for source control.
Microsoft Visual J++/Microsoft Visual J#
Microsoft Visual J++ was Microsoft’s implementation of the Java language (with Microsoft-specific extensions) and associated language services. It was discontinued as a result of litigation from Sun Microsystems, and the technology was recycled into Visual J#, Microsoft’s Java compiler for .NET Framework. J# was available with Visual Studio 2005 (supported until 2015) but was discontinued in Visual Studio 2008.
Visual InterDev
Visual InterDev was used to create web applications using Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) technologies. It supports code completion and includes database server management tools. It has been replaced with Microsoft Visual Web Developer.

Editions[edit]

Microsoft Visual Studio is available in the following editions or SKUs:[52]

[edit]

The Community edition was announced on November 12, 2014, as a new free version, with similar functionality to Visual Studio Professional. Prior to this date, the only free editions of Visual Studio were the feature-limited Express variants. Unlike the Express variants, Visual Studio Community supports multiple languages, and provides support for extensions. Individual developers have no restrictions on their use of the Community edition. The following uses also allow unlimited usage: contributing to Open Source projects, academic research, in a classroom learning environment and for developing and testing device drivers for the Windows operating system. All other use by an organization depends on its classification as an Enterprise (more than 250 employees or more than 1 million USD in annual revenue, per Microsoft).[53] Non-Enterprises may use up to 5 copies without restriction, user number 6 and higher require a commercial license; Enterprise organizations require a commercial license for use outside of the noted exceptions.[53][54] Visual Studio Community is oriented towards individual developers and small teams.

Professional[edit]

As of Visual Studio 2010, the Professional edition is the entry level commercial edition of Visual Studio. (Previously, a more feature restricted Standard edition was available.)[57] It provides an IDE for all supported development languages. MSDN support is available as MSDN Essentials or the full MSDN library depending on licensing. It supports XML and XSLT editing, and can create deployment packages that only use ClickOnce and MSI. It includes tools like Server Explorer and integration with Microsoft SQL Server also. Windows Mobile development support was included in Visual Studio 2005 Standard, however, with Visual Studio 2008, it is only available in Professional and higher editions. Windows Phone 7 development support was added to all editions in Visual Studio 2010. Development for Windows Mobile is no longer supported in Visual Studio 2010. It is superseded by Windows Phone 7.

Enterprise[edit]

In addition to the features provided by the Professional edition, the Enterprise edition provides a new set of software development, database development, collaboration, metrics, architecture, testing and reporting tools.

History[edit]

The first version of Visual Studio was Visual Studio 97.[58] Before that, Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual FoxPro and Visual SourceSafe were sold as separate products.

97[edit]

Microsoft first released Visual Studio (codenamed Boston,[59] for the city of the same name, thus beginning the VS codenames related to places)[59] in 1997, bundling many of its programming tools together for the first time. Visual Studio 97 came in two editions: Visual Studio Professional and Visual Studio Enterprise, the professional edition has three CDs, and the enterprise four CDs. It included Visual J++ 1.1 for Java programming and introduced Visual InterDev for creating dynamically generated web sites using Active Server Pages.[citation needed] There was a single companion CD that contained the Microsoft Developer Network library.

Visual Studio 97 was an attempt at using the same development environment for multiple languages. Visual J++, InterDev, and the MSDN Library had all been using the same ‘environment’, called Developer Studio.[120]

Visual Studio was also sold as a bundle with the separate IDEs used for Visual C++, Visual Basic and Visual FoxPro.[19]

6.0 (1998)[edit]

The next version, version 6.0 (codenamed Aspen, after the ski resort in Colorado),[citation needed] was released in June 1998 and is the last version to run on the Windows 9x platform.[121] Each version of each language in part also settled to v6.0, including Visual J++ which was prior v1.1, and Visual InterDev at the first release. The v6 edition of Microsoft was the core environment for the next four releases to provide programmers with an integrated look-alike platform. This led Microsoft to transition the development on the platform independent .NET Framework.

Visual Studio 6.0 was the last version to include Visual J++,[122][123] which Microsoft removed as part of a settlement with Sun Microsystems that required Microsoft Internet Explorer not to provide support for the Java Virtual Machine.

Visual Studio 6.0 came in two editions: Professional and Enterprise.[124] The Enterprise edition contained extra features not found in Professional edition, including:

  • Application Performance Explorer
  • Automation Manager
  • Microsoft Visual Modeler
  • RemAuto Connection Manager[citation needed]
  • Visual Studio Analyzer

Visual Studio was also sold as a bundle with the separate IDEs used for Visual C++, Visual Basic and Visual FoxPro.[19]

.NET 2002[edit]

The default start page of Visual Studio .NET 2002, running on Windows XP

Microsoft released Visual Studio .NET (VS.NET), codenamed Rainier (for Washington’s Mount Rainier),[citation needed] in February 2002 (the beta version was released via Microsoft Developer Network in 2001). The biggest change was the introduction of a managed code development environment using the .NET Framework. Programs developed using .NET are not compiled to machine language (like C++ is, for example) but instead to a format called Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL) or Common Intermediate Language (CIL). When a CIL application executes, it is compiled while being executed into the appropriate machine language for the platform it is being executed on, thereby making code portable across several platforms. Programs compiled into CIL can be executed only on platforms which have an implementation of Common Language Infrastructure. It is possible to run CIL programs in Linux or Mac OS X using non-Microsoft .NET implementations like Mono and DotGNU.

This was the first version of Visual Studio to require an NT-based Windows platform.[125] The installer enforces this requirement.

Visual Studio .NET 2002 shipped in four editions: Academic, Professional, Enterprise Developer, and Enterprise Architect. Microsoft introduced C# (C-sharp), a new programming language, that targets .NET. It also introduced the successor to Visual J++ called Visual J#. Visual J# programs use Java’s language-syntax. However, unlike Visual J++ programs, Visual J# programs can only target the .NET Framework, not the Java Virtual Machine that all other Java tools target.

Visual Basic changed drastically to fit the new framework, and the new version was called Visual Basic .NET. Microsoft also added extensions to C++, called Managed Extensions for C++, so .NET programs could be created in C++.

Visual Studio .NET can produce applications targeting Windows (using the Windows Forms part of the .NET Framework), the Web (using ASP.NET and Web Services) and, with an add-in, portable devices (using the .NET Compact Framework).

The internal version number of Visual Studio .NET 2002 is version 7.0. Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio .NET 2002 in March 2005.[126]

.NET 2003[edit]

Default start page of Visual Studio .NET 2003 running on Windows XP

In April 2003, Microsoft introduced a minor upgrade to Visual Studio .NET called Visual Studio .NET 2003, codenamed Everett (for the city of the same name).[citation needed] It includes an upgrade to the .NET Framework, version 1.1, and is the first release to support developing programs for mobile devices, using ASP.NET or the .NET Compact Framework. The Visual C++ compiler’s standards-compliance improved, especially in the area of partial template specialization. Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 is a version of the same C++ compiler shipped with Visual Studio .NET 2003 without the IDE that Microsoft made freely available. As of 2010 it is no longer available and the Express Editions have superseded it. Visual Studio .NET 2003 also supports Managed C++, which is the predecessor of C++/CLI. The internal version number of Visual Studio .NET 2003 is version 7.1 while the file format version is 8.0.[127] Visual Studio .NET 2003 is the last version to support Windows NT 4.0 SP6a, Windows 2000 versions below SP3 and Windows XP before SP2.

Visual Studio .NET 2003 shipped in five editions: Academic, Standard, Professional, Enterprise Developer, and Enterprise Architect. The Visual Studio .NET 2003 Enterprise Architect edition includes an implementation of Microsoft Visio 2002’s modeling technologies, including tools for creating Unified Modeling Language-based visual representations of an application’s architecture, and an object-role modeling (ORM) and logical database-modeling solution. «Enterprise Templates» were also introduced, to help larger development teams standardize coding styles and enforce policies around component usage and property settings.

Service Pack 1 was released September 13, 2006.[128]

2005[edit]

Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 Team Suite installation disc

Visual Studio 2005, codenamed Whidbey (a reference to Whidbey Island in Puget Sound region),[citation needed] was released online in October 2005 and to retail stores a few weeks later. Microsoft removed the «.NET» moniker from Visual Studio 2005 (as well as every other product with .NET in its name), but it still primarily targets the .NET Framework, which was upgraded to version 2.0. It is the last version to support Windows Server 2003 below SP1, and thus the last version able to target Windows 98, Windows 2000 and Windows Me for C++ applications.[129][130]

Visual Studio 2005’s internal version number is 8.0 while the file format version is 9.0.[127] Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2005 on December 14, 2006.[131] An additional update for Service Pack 1 that offers Windows Vista compatibility was made available on June 3, 2007.[132]

Visual Studio 2005 was upgraded to support all the new features introduced in .NET Framework 2.0, including generics and ASP.NET 2.0. The IntelliSense feature in Visual Studio was upgraded for generics and new project types were added to support ASP.NET web services. Visual Studio 2005 additionally introduces support for a new task-based build platform called Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) which employs a new XML-based project file format.[133] Visual Studio 2005 also includes a local web server, separate from IIS, that can host ASP.NET applications during development and testing. It also supports all SQL Server 2005 databases. Database designers were upgraded to support the ADO.NET 2.0, which is included with .NET Framework 2.0. C++ also got a similar upgrade with the addition of C++/CLI which is slated to replace the use of Managed C++.[134] Other new features of Visual Studio 2005 include the «Deployment Designer» which allows application designs to be validated before deployments, an improved environment for web publishing when combined with ASP.NET 2.0 and load testing to see application performance under various sorts of user loads. Starting with the 2005 edition, Visual Studio also added extensive 64-bit support. While the host development environment itself is only available as a 32-bit application, Visual C++ 2005 supports compiling for x86-64 (AMD64 and Intel 64) as well as IA-64 (Itanium).[135] The Platform SDK included 64-bit compilers and 64-bit versions of the libraries.

Microsoft also announced Visual Studio Tools for Applications as the successor to Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and VSA (Visual Studio for Applications). VSTA 1.0 was released to manufacturing along with Office 2007. It is included with Office 2007 and is also part of the Visual Studio 2005 SDK. VSTA consists of a customized IDE, based on the Visual Studio 2005 IDE, and a runtime that can be embedded in applications to expose its features via the .NET object model. Office 2007 applications continue to integrate with VBA, except for InfoPath 2007 which integrates with VSTA. Version 2.0 of VSTA (based on Visual Studio 2008) was released in April 2008.[136] It is significantly different from the first version, including features such as dynamic programming and support for WPF, WCF, WF, LINQ, and .NET 3.5 Framework.

2008[edit]

Visual Studio 2008,[137] and Visual Studio Team System 2008[138][139] codenamed Orcas (a reference to Orcas Island, also an island in Puget Sound region, like Whidbey for the previous 2005 release), were released to MSDN subscribers on November 19, 2007, alongside .NET Framework 3.5. The source code for the Visual Studio 2008 IDE is available under a shared source license to some of Microsoft’s partners and ISVs.[84] Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2008 on August 11, 2008.[140] The internal version number of Visual Studio 2008 is version 9.0 while the file format version is 10.0. Visual Studio 2008 is the last version able to target Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP1 and Windows Vista RTM for C++ applications.[141]

Visual Studio 2008 is focused on development of Windows Vista, 2007 Office system, and Web applications. For visual design, a new Windows Presentation Foundation visual designer and a new HTML/CSS editor influenced by Microsoft Expression Web are included. J# is not included. Visual Studio 2008 requires .NET 3.5 Framework and by default configures compiled assemblies to run on .NET Framework 3.5, but it also supports multi-targeting which lets the developers choose which version of the .NET Framework (out of 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, Silverlight CoreCLR or .NET Compact Framework) the assembly runs on. Visual Studio 2008 also includes new code analysis tools, including the new Code Metrics tool (only in Team Edition and Team Suite Edition).[142] For Visual C++, Visual Studio adds a new version of Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC 9.0) that adds support for the visual styles and UI controls introduced with Windows Vista.[143] For native and managed code interoperability, Visual C++ introduces the STL/CLR, which is a port of the C++ Standard Template Library (STL) containers and algorithms to managed code. STL/CLR defines STL-like containers, iterators and algorithms that work on C++/CLI managed objects.[144][145]

Visual Studio 2008 features include an XAML-based designer (codenamed Cider), workflow designer, LINQ to SQL designer (for defining the type mappings and object encapsulation for SQL Server data), XSLT debugger, JavaScript Intellisense support, JavaScript Debugging support, support for UAC manifests, a concurrent build system, among others.[146] It ships with an enhanced set of UI widgets, both for Windows Forms and WPF. It also includes a multithreaded build engine (MSBuild) to compile multiple source files (and build the executable file) in a project across multiple threads simultaneously. It also includes support for compiling icon resources in PNG format, introduced in Windows Vista. An updated XML Schema designer was released separately some time after the release of Visual Studio 2008.[147]

Visual Studio Debugger includes features targeting easier debugging of multi-threaded applications. In debugging mode, in the Threads window, which lists all the threads, hovering over a thread displays the stack trace of that thread in tooltips.[148] The threads can directly be named and flagged for easier identification from that window itself.[149] In addition, in the code window, along with indicating the location of the currently executing instruction in the current thread, the currently executing instructions in other threads are also pointed out.[149][150] The Visual Studio debugger supports integrated debugging of the .NET 3.5 Framework Base Class Library (BCL) which can dynamically download the BCL source code and debug symbols and allow stepping into the BCL source during debugging.[151] As of 2010 a limited subset of the BCL source is available, with more library support planned for later.

2010[edit]

On April 12, 2010, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010, codenamed Dev10,[89] and .NET Framework 4.[152][153] It is the last version to support Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP1, Windows Server 2008 below SP2, Windows 7 before SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 before SP1.

The Visual Studio 2010 IDE was redesigned which, according to Microsoft, clears the UI organization and «reduces clutter and complexity.»[154] The new IDE better supports multiple document windows and floating tool windows,[154] while offering better multi-monitor support. The IDE shell has been rewritten using the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), whereas the internals have been redesigned using Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) that offers more extensibility points than previous versions of the IDE that enabled add-ins to modify the behavior of the IDE.[155]

The new multi-paradigm ML-variant F# forms part of Visual Studio 2010.[156]

Visual Studio 2010 comes with .NET Framework 4 and supports developing applications targeting Windows 7.[154] It supports IBM Db2 and Oracle databases, in addition to Microsoft SQL Server.[154] It has integrated support for developing Microsoft Silverlight applications, including an interactive designer.[154] Visual Studio 2010 offers several tools to make parallel programming simpler: in addition to the Parallel Extensions for the .NET Framework and the Parallel Patterns Library for native code, Visual Studio 2010 includes tools for debugging parallel applications. The new tools allow the visualization of parallel Tasks and their runtime stacks.[157] Tools for profiling parallel applications can be used for visualization of thread wait-times and thread migrations across processor cores.[158] Intel and Microsoft have jointly pledged support for a new Concurrency Runtime in Visual Studio 2010[159]
and Intel has launched parallelism support in Parallel Studio as an add-on for Visual Studio.[160]

The Visual Studio 2010 code editor now highlights references; whenever a symbol is selected, all other usages of the symbol are highlighted.[161] It also offers a Quick Search feature to incrementally search across all symbols in C++, C# and VB.NET projects. Quick Search supports substring matches and camelCase searches.[161] The Call Hierarchy feature allows the developer to see all the methods that are called from a current method as well as the methods that call the current one.[161] IntelliSense in Visual Studio supports a consume-first mode which developers can opt into. In this mode, IntelliSense does not auto-complete identifiers; this allows the developer to use undefined identifiers (like variable or method names) and define those later. Visual Studio 2010 can also help in this by automatically defining them, if it can infer their types from usage.[161] Current versions of Visual Studio have a known bug which makes IntelliSense unusable for projects using pure C (not C++).[162]

Visual Studio 2010 features a new Help System replacing the MSDN Library viewer. The Help System is no longer based on Microsoft Help 2 and does not use Microsoft Document Explorer. Dynamic help containing links to help items based on what the developer was doing at the time was removed in the final release,[163] but can be added back using a download from Microsoft.[164]

Visual Studio 2010 no longer supports development for Windows Mobile prior to Windows Phone 7. Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 was released in March 2011.[165]

Ultimate 2010[edit]

Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 replaces Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite.[166] It includes new modeling tools,[167] such as the Architecture Explorer, which graphically displays projects and classes and the relationships between them.[168]
It supports UML activity diagram, component diagram, (logical) class diagram, sequence diagram, and use case diagram.[168] Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 also includes Test Impact Analysis which provides hints on which test cases are impacted by modifications to the source code, without actually running the test cases.[169] This speeds up testing by avoiding running unnecessary test cases.

Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 also includes a historical debugger for managed code called IntelliTrace. Unlike a traditional debugger that records only the currently active stack, IntelliTrace records all events, such as prior function calls, method parameters, events and exceptions. This allows the code execution to be rewound in case a breakpoint was not set where the error occurred.[170] Debugging with IntelliTrace causes the application to run more slowly than debugging without it, and uses more memory as additional data needs to be recorded. Microsoft allows configuration of how much data should be recorded, in effect, allowing developers to balance the speed of execution and resource usage. The Lab Management component of Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 uses virtualization to create a similar execution environment for testers and developers. The virtual machines are tagged with checkpoints which can later be investigated for issues, as well as to reproduce the issue.[171] Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 also includes the capability to record test runs that capture the specific state of the operating environment as well as the precise steps used to run the test. These steps can then be played back to reproduce issues.[172]

2012[edit]

Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 logo

The final build of Visual Studio 2012 was announced on August 1, 2012, and the official launch event was held on September 12, 2012.[173]

Unlike prior versions, Visual Studio 2012 cannot record and play macros and the macro editor has been removed.[174]

New features include support for WinRT and C++/CX (Component Extensions) and C++ AMP (GPGPU programming) Semantic Colorization.[175]

On September 16, 2011, a complete ‘Developer Preview’ of Visual Studio 11 was published on Microsoft’s website. Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview requires Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8, or later operating systems.[176] Versions of Microsoft Foundation Class Library (MFC) and C runtime (CRT) included with this release cannot produce software that is compatible with Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 except by using native multi-targeting and foregoing the newest libraries, compilers, and headers.[177] However, on June 15, 2012, a blog post on the VC++ Team blog announced that based on customer feedback, Microsoft would re-introduce native support for Windows XP targets (though not for XP as a development platform) in a version of Visual C++ to be released later in the fall of 2012.[178] «Visual Studio 2012 Update 1» (Visual Studio 2012.1) was released in November 2012. This update added support for Windows XP targets and also added other new tools and features (e.g. improved diagnostics and testing support for Windows Store apps).[179]

On August 24, 2011, a blog post by Sumit Kumar, a Program Manager on the Visual C++ team, listed some of the features of the upcoming version of the Visual Studio C++ IDE:[180]

  • Semantic colorization: Improved syntax coloring, various user-defined or default colors for C++ syntax such as macros, enumerations, typenames and functions.[180]
  • Reference highlighting: Selection of a symbol highlights all of the references to that symbol within scope.[180]
  • New Solution Explorer: The new Solution Explorer allows for visualization of class and file hierarchies within a solution/project. It can search for calls to functions and uses of classes.[180]
  • Automatic display of IntelliSense list: IntelliSense is automatically displayed whilst typing code, as opposed to previous versions where it had to be explicitly invoked through use of certain operators (i.e. the scope operator (::)) or shortcut keys (Ctrl-Space or Ctrl-J).[180]
  • Member list filtering: IntelliSense uses fuzzy logic to determine which functions/variables/types to display in the list.[180]
  • Code snippets: Code snippets are included in IntelliSense to automatically generate relevant code based on the user’s parameters, custom code snippets can be created.[180]

The source code of Visual Studio 2012 consists of approximately 50 million lines of code.[181]

Interface backlash[edit]

During Visual Studio 11 beta, Microsoft eliminated the use of color within tools except in cases where color is used for notification or status change purposes. However, the use of color was returned after feedback demanding more contrast, differentiation, clarity and «energy» in the user interface.[182][183]

In the Visual Studio 2012 release candidate (RC), a major change to the interface is the use of all-caps menu bar, as part of the campaign to keep Visual Studio consistent with the direction of other Microsoft user interfaces, and to provide added structure to the top menu bar area.[184] The redesign was criticized for being hard to read, and going against the trends started by developers to use CamelCase to make words stand out better.[185] Some speculated that the root cause of the redesign was to incorporate the simplistic look and feel of Metro programs.[186] However, there exists a Windows Registry option to allow users to disable the all-caps interface.[187]

2013[edit]

The preview for Visual Studio 2013 was announced at the Build 2013 conference and made available on June 26, 2013.[188] The Visual Studio 2013 RC (Release Candidate) was made available to developers on MSDN on September 9, 2013.[189]

The final release of Visual Studio 2013 became available for download on October 17, 2013, along with .NET 4.5.1.[190] Visual Studio 2013 officially launched on November 13, 2013, at a virtual launch event keynoted by S. Somasegar and hosted on events.visualstudio.com.[191] «Visual Studio 2013 Update 1» (Visual Studio 2013.1) was released on January 20, 2014.[192]
Visual Studio 2013.1 is a targeted update that addresses some key areas of customer feedback.[193]
«Visual Studio 2013 Update 2» (Visual Studio 2013.2) was released on May 12, 2014.[194]
Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 was released on August 4, 2014. With this update, Visual Studio provides an option to disable the all-caps menus, which was introduced in VS2012.[195]
«Visual Studio 2013 Update 4» (Visual Studio 2013.4) was released on November 12, 2014.[196]
«Visual Studio 2013 Update 5» (Visual Studio 2013.5) was released on July 20, 2015.[197]

2015[edit]

Initially referred to as Visual Studio «14», the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) was released on June 3, 2014[198] and the Release Candidate was released on April 29, 2015; Visual Studio 2015 was officially announced as the final name on November 12, 2014.[199]

Visual Studio 2015 RTM was released on July 20, 2015.[197] Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 was released on November 30, 2015.[197] Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 was released on March 30, 2016.[197] Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 was released on June 27, 2016.[197] Visual Studio 2015 is the last version to support Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows 8.

2017[edit]

Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Logo

Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 logo

Initially referred to as Visual Studio «15», it was released on March 7, 2017.[200] The first Preview was released on March 30, 2016.[201] Visual Studio «15» Preview 2 was released May 10, 2016.[202][203] Visual Studio «15» Preview 3 was released on July 7, 2016.[204][205] Visual Studio «15» Preview 4 was released on August 22, 2016.[206][207] Visual Studio «15» Preview 5 was released on October 5, 2016.[208]

On November 14, 2016, for a brief period of time, Microsoft released a blog post revealing Visual Studio 2017 product name version alongside upcoming features.[209]

On November 16, 2016, «Visual Studio 2017» was announced as the final name,[210] and Visual Studio 2017 RC was released.[211]

On March 7, 2017, Visual Studio 2017 was released for general availability.[211]

On March 14, 2017, first fix was released for Visual Studio 2017 due to failures during installation or opening solutions in the first release.[211]

On April 5, 2017, Visual Studio 2017 15.1 was released and added support for targeting the .NET Framework 4.7.

On May 10, 2017, Visual Studio 2017 15.2 was released and added a new workload, «Data Science and Analytical Applications Workload». An update to fix the dark color theme was released on May 12, 2017.

On August 14, 2017, Visual Studio 2017 15.3 was released and added support for targeting .NET Core 2.0. An update (15.3.1) was released four days later to address a Git vulnerability with submodules (CVE 2017-1000117).

On October 10, 2017, Visual Studio 15.4 was released.[212]

On December 4, 2017, Visual Studio 15.5 was released. This update contained major performance improvements, new features, as well as bug fixes.[213]

On March 6, 2018, Visual Studio 15.6 was released. It includes updates to unit testing and performance.[214]

On May 7, 2018, Visual Studio 15.7 was released. It included updates across the board including, the installer, editor, debugger among others. Almost all point releases, the latest of which is 15.7.6 released August 2, 2018, include security updates. With the release of Visual Studio 2017 15.7, Visual C++ now conforms to the C++17 standard.[39]

On September 20, 2018, Visual Studio 15.8.5 was released. Tools for Xamarin now supports Xcode 10.[215]

Visual Studio 2017 offers new features like support for EditorConfig (a coding style enforcement framework), NGen support, .NET Core and Docker toolset (Preview), and Xamarin 4.3 (Preview).[211] It also has a XAML Editor, improved IntelliSense, live unit testing, debugging enhancement and better IDE experience and productivity.[216] Additionally, it is the last version of Visual Studio to support maintaining Windows 10 Mobile projects.[217]

2019[edit]

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Visual Studio 2019 Icon

On June 6, 2018, Microsoft announced Visual Studio 2019 (version 16).[218]

On December 4, 2018, Visual Studio 2019 Preview 1 was released.[219]

On January 24, 2019, Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2 was released.[220]

On February 13, 2019, Visual Studio 2019 Preview 3 was released.[221]

On February 27, 2019, Visual Studio 2019 RC was released.[222]

It is generally available (GA) since April 2, 2019 and available for download.[223]

2022[edit]

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On April 19, 2021, Microsoft announced Visual Studio 2022 (version 17).[224][225] It is the first version to run as a 64-bit process allowing Visual Studio main process to access more than 4 GB of memory, preventing out-of-memory exceptions which could occur with large projects.

On June 17, 2021, Visual Studio 2022 Preview 1 was released.[226]

On July 14, 2021, Visual Studio 2022 Preview 2 was released.[227]

On August 10, 2021, Visual Studio 2022 Preview 3 was released.[228]

On September 14, 2021, Visual Studio 2022 Preview 4 was released.[229]

On October 12, 2021, Visual Studio 2022 RC and Preview 5 was released while setting November 8, 2021 for its general availability.[230]

It is generally available (GA) since November 8, 2021 and available for download.[231]

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Azure DevOps Services[edit]

On November 13, 2013, Microsoft announced the release of a software as a service offering of Visual Studio on Microsoft Azure platform; at the time, Microsoft called it Visual Studio Online. Previously announced as Team Foundation Services, it expanded over the on-premises Team Foundation Server (TFS; now known as Azure DevOps Server) by making it available on the Internet and implementing a rolling release model.[232][233] Customers could use Azure portal to subscribe to Visual Studio Online. Subscribers receive a hosted Git-compatible version control system, a load-testing service, a telemetry service and an in-browser code editor codenamed «Monaco».[234] During the Connect(); 2015 developer event on November 18, 2015, Microsoft announced that the service was rebranded as «Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)».[235] On September 10, 2018, Microsoft announced another rebranding of the service, this time to «Azure DevOps Services».[45]

Microsoft offers Stakeholder, Basic, and Visual Studio subscriber access levels for Azure DevOps Services. The Basic plan is free of charge for up to five users. Users with a Visual Studio subscription can be added to a plan with no additional charge.[236]

Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management[edit]


Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is a collection of integrated software development tools developed by Microsoft. These tools currently consist of the IDE (Visual Studio 2015 Community and greater editions), server (Team Foundation Server), and cloud services (Visual Studio Team Services).[237] Visual Studio ALM supports team-based development and collaboration, Agile project management, DevOps, source control, packaging, continuous development, automated testing, release management, continuous delivery, and reporting tools for apps and services.[238]

In Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008, the brand was known as Microsoft Visual Studio Team System (VSTS). In October 2009, the Team System brand was renamed[167][239] Visual Studio ALM with the Visual Studio 2010 (codenamed ‘Rosario’) release.[240]

Visual Studio Team Services debuted as Visual Studio Online in 2013 and was renamed in 2015.[241]

Visual Studio Lab Management[edit]

Visual Studio Lab Management is a software development tool developed by Microsoft for software testers to create and manage virtual environments. Lab Management extends the existing Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management platform to enable an integrated Hyper-V based test lab. Since Visual Studio 2012, it is already shipped as a part of it; and, can be set up after Azure DevOps and SCVMM are integrated.[242]

Visual Studio LightSwitch[edit]

Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch is an extension and framework specifically tailored for creating line-of-business applications built on existing .NET technologies and Microsoft platforms. The applications produced are architecturally 3-tier: the user interface runs on either Microsoft Silverlight or HTML 5 client,[243] or as a SharePoint 2013 app;[244] the logic and data-access tier is built on WCF Data Services and exposed as an OData feed hosted[245] in ASP.NET; and the primary data storage supports Microsoft SQL Server Express, Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft SQL Azure. LightSwitch also supports other data sources including Microsoft SharePoint, OData and WCF RIA Services.

LightSwitch includes graphical designers for designing entities and entity relationships, entity queries, and UI screens. Business logic may be written in either Visual Basic or Visual C#. LightSwitch is included with Visual Studio 2012 Professional and higher. Visual Studio 2015 is the last release of Visual Studio that includes the LightSwitch tooling.[246]

The user interface layer is now an optional component when deploying a LightSwitch solution, allowing a service-only deployment.[247]

The first version of Visual Studio LightSwitch, released July 26, 2011,[248] had many differences from the current[when?] release of LightSwitch. Notably the tool was purchased and installed as a stand-alone product. If Visual Studio 2010 Professional or higher was already installed on the machine, LightSwitch would integrate into that.[249] The second major difference was the middle tier was built and exposed using WCF RIA Services.

As of October 14, 2016, Microsoft no longer recommends LightSwitch for new application development.[250]

Visual Studio Code[edit]

Visual Studio Code is a freeware source code editor, along with other features, for Linux, Mac OS, and Windows.[251] It also includes support for debugging and embedded Git Control. It is built on open-source,[252] and on April 14, 2016, version 1.0 was released.[253]

Visual Studio Team System Profiler[edit]

Visual Studio Team System Profiler (VSTS Profiler) is a tool to analyze the performance of .NET projects that analyzes the space and time complexity of the program.[254] It analyzes the code and prepares a report that includes CPU sampling, instrumentation, .NET memory allocation and resource contention.[255]

See also[edit]

  • Comparison of integrated development environments
  • GitHub Copilot
  • Microsoft Small Basic
  • Microsoft Visual Studio Express
  • Visual Studio Code

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Microsoft Visual Studio

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Внешний вид Visual Studio 2008 SP1 с программой на языке C# в Windows Vista
Тип интегрированная среда разработки
Разработчики Microsoft
Написана на C++[1] и C#[1]
Операционная система Windows
Языки интерфейса китайский язык, английский язык, французский язык,португальский язык,немецкий язык, итальянский язык, японский язык,корейский язык и испанский язык
Последняя версия Visual Studio 2015(20 июля 2015)[2]
Лицензия Пользовательское соглашение
Сайт visualstudio.com

Microsoft Visual Studio — линейка продуктов компании Microsoft, включающих интегрированную среду разработки программного обеспечения и ряд других инструментальных средств. Данные продукты позволяют разрабатывать как консольные приложения, так и приложения с графическим интерфейсом, в том числе с поддержкой технологии Windows Forms, а также веб-сайты, веб-приложения, веб-службы как в родном, так и в управляемом кодах для всех платформ, поддерживаемых Windows, Windows Mobile, Windows CE, .NET Framework, Xbox, Windows Phone .NET Compact Framework и Silverlight.

Visual Studio включает в себя редактор исходного кода с поддержкой технологии IntelliSense и возможностью простейшего рефакторинга кода. Встроенный отладчик может работать как отладчик уровня исходного кода, так и как отладчик машинного уровня. Остальные встраиваемые инструменты включают в себя редактор форм для упрощения создания графического интерфейса приложения, веб-редактор, дизайнер классов и дизайнерсхемы базы данных. Visual Studio позволяет создавать и подключать сторонние дополнения (плагины) для расширения функциональности практически на каждом уровне, включая добавление поддержки системконтроля версий исходного кода (как, например, Subversion и Visual SourceSafe), добавление новых наборов инструментов (например, для редактирования и визуального проектирования кода на предметно-ориентированных языках программирования) или инструментов для прочих аспектов процесса разработки программного обеспечения (например, клиент Team Explorer для работы с Team Foundation Server).

Компоненты[]

Visual Studio включает один или несколько компонентов из следующих:

  • Visual Basic .NET, а до его появления — Visual Basic
  • Visual C++
  • Visual C#
  • Visual F# (включён начиная с Visual Studio 2010)

Многие варианты поставки также включают:

  • Microsoft SQL Server либо Microsoft SQL Server Express

В прошлом в состав Visual Studio также входили продукты:

  • Visual InterDev
  • Visual J++
  • Visual J#
  • Visual FoxPro
  • Visual Source Safe — файл-серверная система управления версиями

Версии[]

До выхода Visual Studio Version 4.0 среды разработки Visual Basic 3, Visual C++, Visual FoxPro и Source Safe поставлялись в качестве самостоятельных пакетов.

Официальное

название

Кодовое

название

Внутренняя

версия

Версии

.NET Framework

Дата

выхода

Visual Studio N/A 4.0 N/A Апрель 1995
Visual Studio 97 Boston 5.0 N/A Февраль 1997
Visual Studio 6.0 Aspen 6.0 N/A Июнь 1998
Visual Studio .NET (2002) Rainier 7.0 1.0 2002-02-13
Visual Studio .NET 2003 Everett 7.1 1.1 2003-04-24
Visual Studio 2005 Whidbey 8.0 2.0, 3.0 2005-11-07
Visual Studio 2008 Orcas 9.0 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 2007-11-19
Visual Studio 2010 Dev10/Rosario 10.0 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0 2010-04-12
Visual Studio 2012 Dev11 11.0 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 4.5.1, 4.5.2 2012-08-15
Visual Studio 2013 Dev12 12.0 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 4.5.1, 4.5.2 2013-10-17
Visual Studio 2015 Dev14 14.0 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.6 2015-07-20

Visual Studio 97[]

Visual Studio 97 — первая выпущенная версия Visual Studio, в которой впервые были собраны вместе различные средства разработки ПО. Она была выпущена в двух версиях — Professional и Enterprise, и включала в себя Visual Basic 5.0, Visual C++ 5.0, Visual J++ 1.1, Visual FoxPro 5.0 и впервые появившуюся среду разработки ASP — Visual InterDev. Visual Studio 97 была первой попыткой Microsoft создать единую среду для разработки на разных языках программирования: Visual C++, Visual J++, Visual InterDev и MSDN использовали одну среду, называемую Developer Studio. Visual Basic и Visual FoxPro использовали отдельные среды для разработки.

Visual Studio 6.0 (1998)[]

Visual Studio 6.0 — последняя версия Visual Studio, работающая на платформе Windows 9x (выпущена в июне 1998 года). По-прежнему популярна среди программистов, использующих Visual Basic. Данная версия являлась основной средой разработки приложений под Windows от Microsoft до появления платформы .NET.

Visual Studio .NET (2002)[]

Visual Studio .NET (кодовое имя Rainier; внутренняя версия 7.0) — выпущена в феврале 2002 года (включает .NET Framework 1.0). Service Pack 1 для Visual Studio .NET (2002) выпущен в марте 2002.

Visual Studio .NET 2003[]

Visual Studio .NET 2003 (кодовое имя Everett; внутренняя версия 7.1) — выпущена в апреле 2003 года (включает .NET Framework 1.1). В апреле 2005 года Microsoft объявила о специальном выпуске среды, получившей название Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 Professional Special Edition. Спецвыпуск представлял собой обычное издание Visual Studio .NET 2003 Professional Edition с добавлением в комплект серверного ПО и других инструментов (в частности, операционной системы Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition и SQL Server 2000 Developer Edition). Для поощрения перехода на новую среду разработки корпорацией была объявлена специальная цена обновления, действовавшая при переходе на Visual Studio .NET 2003 Professional Special Edition с большого числа средств разработки как Microsoft, так и основных его конкурентов[3].

Service Pack 1 для Visual Studio .NET 2003 выпущен 13 сентября 2006.

Visual Studio 2005[]

Visual Studio 2005 (кодовое имя Whidbey; внутренняя версия 8.0) — выпущена в конце октября 2005 года (включает .NET Framework 2.0). Последняя официально работающая на Windows 2000. В начале ноября 2005 также вышла серия продуктов в редакции Express: Visual C++ 2005 Express, Visual Basic 2005 Express, Visual C# 2005 Express и др.[4] 19 апреля 2006 редакция Express стала бесплатной. Service Pack 1 для VS2005[5] и всех Express-редакций[6] выпущен 14 декабря 2006 года. Дополнительный патч для SP1, решающий проблему совместимости с Windows Vista, выпущен 6 марта 2007.

Visual Studio 2008[]

Внешний вид Visual Studio 2008 SP1 с программой на языке C# в Windows Vista

Visual Studio 2008 (кодовое имя Orcas; внутренняя версия 9.0) — выпущена 19 ноября 2007, одновременно с .NET Framework 3.5. Нацелена на создание приложений для ОС Windows Vista (но поддерживает и XP), Microsoft Office 2007 и веб-приложений. Включает в себя LINQ, новые версии языковC# и Visual Basic. В студию не вошёл Visual J#. С 28 октября 2008 года впервые доступна версия на русском языке.

Visual Studio 2010[]

Visual Studio 2010 (кодовое имя Hawaii, для Ultimate — Rosario; внутренняя версия 10.0) — выпущена 12 апреля 2010 года вместе с .NET Framework 4.0. Visual Studio включает поддержку языков C# 4.0 и Visual Basic .NET 10.0, а также языка F#, отсутствовавшего в предыдущих версиях.

Visual Studio 2012[]

Visual Studio 2012 распространяется в тех же редакциях, что и 2010. Изменения коснулись Visual Studio 2012 Express — устанавливаются все языки программирования, а не один, как раньше (Visual Basic 2010 Express, Visual C# 2010 Express), а также теперь существует пять версий Visual Studio Express: Visual Studio Express 2012 для Web, Visual Studio Express 2012 для Windows 8, Visual Studio Express 2012 для Windows Desktop, Visual Studio Express 2012 для Windows Phone и Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Express 2012. Все версии распространяются как отдельные приложения. Visual Studio Express 2012 для Windows 8 позволяет разрабатывать приложения для Windows Store с Modern-интерфейсом, а Visual Studio Express 2012 для Windows Desktop позволяет разрабатывать «классические» приложения для Рабочего стола. Что касается Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Express 2012, то эта версия поставляется с оболочкой Visual Studio 2012.

Разрабатывать приложения на C++ с помощью Visual Studio 2012 можно только под Windows 7 SP1 и Windows 8[7]. Вышло исправление, позволяющее компилировать приложения для запуска под Windows XP.

Visual Studio 2013[]

Финальный релиз Visual Studio 2013 стал доступен для загрузки 17 октября 2013 вместе с .NET 4.5.1.

Visual Studio 2015[]

12 ноября 2014 года было объявлено, что «Visual Studio 2015» принято в качестве окончательного варианта имени продукта[8].

Visual Studio 2015 предоставляется в трёх редакциях: бесплатной Community Edition, объединяющей все Express-версии, и платных Professional Edition для небольших проектов и Enterprise Edition для крупных проектов.

Первый CTP был выпущен 2 июня 2014 года, затем 29 апреля 2015 года был выпущен Release Candidate. Финальный релиз Visual Studio 2015 стал доступен для скачивания 20 июля 2015 года[9].

Редакции[]

Visual Studio Express[]

Основная статья: Microsoft Visual Studio Express

Набор легковесных сред разработки, представляющих собой урезанную версию Visual Studio. Она включает в себя небольшой набор инструментов, в отличие от полных версий: отсутствует дизайнер классов и многие другие инструменты, а также поддержка плагинов и удалённых баз данных в дизайнере данных. Компиляторы в 64-битный код также недоступны в Express-редакциях до версий 2010 года (хотя компилятор бесплатно распространяется с Windows SDK и его можно использовать, компилировать автоматически из IDE нельзя).[источник не указан 445 дней] Microsoft позиционирует эту линейку IDE для студентов и любителей. На настоящий момент существуют следующие Express-редакции:

  • Visual Basic Express
  • Visual C++ Express
  • Visual C# Express
  • Visual Web Developer Express

Вместе с Visual Studio 2012 были выпущены новые Express-версии продукта:

  • Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web — для web-разработчиков
  • Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows 8 — для разработки программ с modern-интерфейсом (языки: C#, Visual Basic.Net, C++, JavaScript)
  • Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop — для разработки обычных десктопных приложений (языки: C#, Visual Basic.Net, C++)
  • Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Phone — для разработчиков под платформы Windows Phone 7.5 и 8.0
  • Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Express 2012

Ключевыми особенностями этих express-версий продуктов являются:

  • ориентирование на цель разработки, а не на язык
  • необходимость регулярно продлевать бесплатную регистрацию для индивидуальных разработчиков, если разработка на Express-версии ведется не с целью обучения
  • поддержка компиляции 64-битного кода
  • поддержка unit-тестов

Visual Studio LightSwitch[]

Основная статья: Visual Studio LightSwitch

Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch — это среда разработки, нацеленная на создание Line of business[en] приложений, построенных на существующих .NET-технологиях и платформах Microsoft. Создаваемые приложения состоят из трех ярусов: пользовательский интерфейс на Silverlight; логика и доступ к данным на сервисах WCF RIA и Entity Framework; хранение данных с помощью Microsoft SQL Server Express, Microsoft SQL Server или SQL Azure. LightSwitch также поддерживает другие источники данных, включая SharePoint. LightSwitch включает в себя графические дизайнеры сущностей и их отношений, запросов, а также интерфейса пользователя. Бизнес-логика может быть написана на Visual Basic или на Visual C#. LightSwitch может быть установлен как самостоятельное приложение или как дополнение к Visual Studio 2010 Professional и более высоким редакциям.

Visual Studio Standard[]

Данная редакция предоставляет IDE для всех поддерживаемых продуктов и поддерживает полную версию библиотеки MSDN. Поддерживается редактирование XML и XSLT, как и средства для тестирования объектов. Однако отсутствует обозреватель серверов и интеграция с Microsoft SQL Server. Поддержка разработки под мобильные устройства изначально была включена в Visual Studio 2005 Standard, но в версии 2008 она доступна только в Professional-редакции. Начиная с версии 2010 более не существует.[источник не указан 445 дней]

Visual Studio Professional[]

Редакция включает все возможности Standard Edition, расширяя их дополнительными, такими, как интеграция с Microsoft SQL Server и поддержка удалённой отладки.

Visual Studio Tools for Office[]

Visual Studio Tools for Office включает SDK и расширение для Visual Studio, которое содержит утилиты для разработки под платформу Microsoft Office. Начиная с Visual Studio 2008 включено в версии Professional и выше.

Visual Studio Team System[]

Основная статья: Visual Studio Team System

Предоставляет набор инструментов для совместной разработки, подсчета метрик и создания отчётов, в дополнение к возможностям Professional редакции. Имеются различные редакции VSTS, разделяемые по ролям, для которых продукт будет использоваться:

  • Team Explorer (клиент для TFS)
  • Architecture Edition
  • Database Edition
  • Development Edition
  • Test Edition

Совмещённая функциональность всех четырёх редакций представлена в отдельном пакете Visual Studio Team Suite Edition. Функциональность Database Edition будет совмещена с Development Edition в будущей версии пакета — Visual Studio 2010.

Помимо клиентских приложений, Team System также включает в себя Team Foundation Server.

Компилятор как сервис[]

В сентябре 2011 года было объявлено, что в октябре Microsoft выпустит специальную версию компилятора, разрабатываемого в рамках проекта Roslyn. Целью данного проекта была разработка «компилятора в виде сервиса» с возможностью выдачи программистам всей генерируемой компилятором информации. Данный компилятор будет обладать поддержкой языков C# и Visual Basic с полной совместимостью с Visual Studio. Кроме того, заявлена возможность конвертации кода с одного языка на другой[10].

Дополнения[]

Основная статья: Список встраиваемых дополнений для Microsoft Visual Studio

Visual Studio построена на архитектуре, поддерживающей возможность использования встраиваемых дополнений (англ. Add-Ins) — плагинов от сторонних разработчиков, что позволяет расширять возможности среды разработки.

Некоторые из наиболее популярных дополнений:

  • ReSharper
  • Review Assistant — плагин просмотра и редактирования кода
  • Visual Assist X
  • AnkhSVN — свободная реализация клиента Subversion в Visual Studio (в настоящее время поддерживаются версии с 2005 по 2013).
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Независимо от того, являетесь ли вы опытным разработчиком или только учитесь программировать, важно знать обо всех новых и уже существующих интегрированных средах разработки. Ниже приведен список 10 наиболее популярных IDE.

  • Что такое IDE (интегрированная среда разработки) и чем она отличается от текстового редактора?
  • Microsoft Visual Studio
  • Интегрированная среда программирования NetBeans
  • PyCharm — лучшая среда разработки для Python
  • IntelliJ IDEA
  • Eclipse
  • Code::Blocks
  • Aptana Studio 3
  • Komodo
  • RubyMine
  • Xcode
  • Выбор подходящей IDE

IDE (интегрированная среда разработки) — это не просто текстовый редактор. В то время как текстовые редакторы для кода, такие как Sublime или Atom, предлагают множество удобных функций, таких как подсветка синтаксиса, настраиваемый интерфейс и расширенные средства навигации, они позволяют только писать код. Для создания функционирующих приложений как минимум нужен компилятор и отладчик.

IDE (integrated development environment) включает в себя эти компоненты, как и ряд других. Некоторые из них поставляются с дополнительными инструментами для автоматизации, тестирования и визуализации процесса разработки. Термин «интегрированная среда разработки» означает, что предоставляется все необходимое для превращения кода в функционирующие приложения.

Ознакомьтесь с приведенным ниже списком функций и недостатков каждой из 10 лучших IDE.

Microsoft Visual Studio

Microsoft Visual Studio — это интегрированная среда разработки, цена которой варьируется от $699 до $2900. Множество версий этой IDE способны создавать все типы программ, начиная от веб-приложений и заканчивая мобильными приложениями, видеоиграми. Эта линейка программного обеспечения включает в себя множество инструментов для тестирования совместимости. Благодаря своей гибкости Visual Studio является отличным инструментом для студентов и профессионалов.

Поддерживаемые языки: Ajax, ASP.NET, DHTML, JavaScript, JScript, Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual C++, Visual F#, XAML и другие.

Особенности:

  • Огромная библиотека расширений, которая постоянно увеличивается;
  • IntelliSense;
  • Настраиваемая панель и закрепляемые окна;
  • Простой рабочий процесс и файловая иерархия;
  • Статистика мониторинга производительности в режиме реального времени;
  • Инструменты автоматизации;
  • Легкий рефакторинг и вставка фрагментов кода;
  • Поддержка разделенного экрана;
  • Список ошибок, который упрощает отладку;
  • Проверка утверждения при развертывании приложений с помощью ClickOnce, Windows Installer или Publish Wizard.

Недостатки: поскольку Visual Studio IDE является супертяжелой, для открытия и запуска приложений требуются значительные ресурсы. Поэтому на некоторых устройствах внесение простых изменений может занять много времени. Для простых задач целесообразно использовать компактный редактор или средство разработки PHP.

Интегрированная среда программирования NetBeans

Бесплатная IDE для C (и многих других языков программирования) с открытым исходным кодом. Подходит для редактирования существующих проектов или создания новых. NetBeans предлагает простой drag-and-drop интерфейс, который поставляется с большим количеством удобных шаблонов проектов. Среда в основном используется для разработки Java приложений, но можно устанавливать пакеты, поддерживающие другие языки.

Поддерживаемые языки программирования: C, C++, C++ 11, Fortran, HTML 5, Java, PHP и другие.

Особенности:

  • Интуитивный drag-and-drop интерфейс;
  • Динамические и статические библиотеки;
  • Интеграция нескольких сессий GNU-отладчика с поддержкой кода;
  • Возможность осуществлять удаленное развертывание;
  • Совместимость с платформами Windows, Linux, OS X и Solaris;
  • Поддержка Qt Toolkit;
  • Поддержка Fortran и Assembler;
  • Поддержка целого ряда компиляторов, включая CLang / LLVM, Cygwin, GNU, MinGW и Oracle Solaris Studio.

Недостатки: эта бесплатная среда разработки потребляет много памяти, поэтому может работать медленно на некоторых ПК.

PyCharm - лучшая среда разработки для Python

PyCharm разработан командой Jet Brains. Пользователям предоставляется бесплатная версия Community Edition, 30-дневная бесплатная ознакомительная версия Professional Edition и годовая подписка за $213 — $690 на версию Professional Edition. Комплексная поддержка кода и анализ делают PyCharm лучшей IDE для Python-программистов.

Поддерживаемые языки: AngularJS, Coffee Script, CSS, Cython, HTML, JavaScript, Node.js, Python, TypeScript.

Особенности:

  • Совместимость с операционными системами Windows, Linux и Mac OS;
  • Поставляется с Django IDE;
  • Легко интегрируется с Git, Mercurial и SVN;
  • Настраиваемый интерфейс с эмуляцией VIM;
  • Отладчики JavaScript, Python и Django;
  • Поддержка Google App Engine.

Недостатки: пользователи жалуются, что эта среда разработки Python содержит некоторые ошибки, такие как периодически не работающая функция автоматического заполнения, что может доставить определенные неудобства.

IntelliJ IDEA

Еще одна IDE, разработанная Jet Brains. Она предлагает пользователям бесплатную версию Community Edition, 30-дневную бесплатную ознакомительную версию Ultimate Edition и годовую подписку на версию Ultimate Edition за $533 — $693. IntelliJ IDEA поддерживает Java 8 и Java EE 7, обладает обширным инструментарием для разработки мобильных приложений и корпоративных технологий для различных платформ. Если говорить о цене, IntelliJ является прекрасным вариантом из-за огромного списка функций.

Поддерживаемые языки программирования: AngularJS, CoffeeScript, HTML, JavaScript, LESS, Node JS, PHP, Python, Ruby, Sass, TypeScript и другие.

Особенности:

  • Расширенный редактор баз данных и дизайнер UML;
  • Поддержка нескольких систем сборки;
  • Пользовательский интерфейс тестового запуска приложений;
  • Интеграция с Git;
  • Поддержка Google App Engine, Grails, GWT, Hibernate, Java EE, OSGi, Play, Spring, Struts и других;
  • Встроенные средства развертывания и отладки для большинства серверов приложений;
  • Интеллектуальные текстовые редакторы для HTML, CSS и Java;
  • Интегрированный контроль версий;
  • AIR Mobile с поддержкой Android и iOS.

Недостатки: эта среда разработки JavaScript требует времени и усилий на изучение, поэтому может оказаться не лучшим вариантом для начинающих. В ней есть много сочетаний горячих клавиш, которые нужно просто запомнить. Некоторые пользователи жалуются на неуклюжий интерфейс.

Eclipse

Среда программирования C (поддерживающая и многие другие языки программирования) с открытым исходным кодом. Этот инструмент может оказаться полезен, как для новичков, так и для профессионалов. Первоначально создаваемый как среда для Java-разработки сегодня Eclipse имеет широкий диапазон возможностей благодаря большому количеству плагинов и расширений. Помимо средств отладки и поддержки Git / CVS, стандартная версия Eclipse поставляется с инструментами Java и Plugin Development Tooling. Если вам этого недостаточно, доступно много других пакетов: инструменты для построения диаграмм, моделирования, составления отчетов, тестирования и создания графических интерфейсов. Клиент Marketplace Eclipse открывает пользователям доступ к хранилищу плагинов и информации.

Поддерживаемые языки: C, C++, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby и другие.

Особенности:

  • Множество пакетных решений, обеспечивающих многоязычную поддержку;
  • Улучшения Java IDE, такие как иерархические представления вложенных проектов;
  • Интерфейс, ориентированный на задачи, включая уведомления в системном трее;
  • Автоматическое создание отчетов об ошибках;
  • Параметры инструментария для проектов JEE;
  • Интеграция с JUnit.

Недостатки: многие параметры этой среды разработки могут запугать новичков. Eclipse не обладает всеми теми функциями, что и IntelliJ IDEA, но является IDE с открытым исходным кодом.

Code::Blocks

Еще одна среда разработки C с открытым исходным кодом. Гибкая IDE, которая стабильно работает на всех платформах, поэтому она отлично подходит для разработчиков, которые часто переключаются между рабочими пространствами. Встроенный фреймворк позволяет настраивать эту IDE под свои потребности.

Поддерживаемые языки: C, C++, Fortran.

Особенности:

  • Простой интерфейс с вкладками открытых файлов;
  • Совместимость с Linux, Mac и Windows;
  • Написана на C++;
  • Не требует интерпретируемых или проприетарных языков программирования;
  • Множество встроенных и настраиваемых плагинов;
  • Поддерживает несколько компиляторов, включая GCC, MSVC ++, clang и другие;
  • Отладчик с поддержкой контрольных точек;
  • Текстовый редактор с подсветкой синтаксиса и функцией автоматического заполнения;
  • Настраиваемые внешние инструменты;
  • Простые средства управления задачами, идеально подходящие для совместной работы.

Недостатки: относительно компактная IDE для СИ, поэтому она не подходит для крупных проектов. Это отличный инструмент для новичков, но продвинутые программисты могут быть разочарованы ее ограничениями.

Aptana Studio 3

Самая мощная из IDE с открытым исходным кодом. Aptana Studio 3 значительно улучшена по сравнению с предыдущими версиями. Поддерживает большинство спецификаций браузеров. Поэтому пользователи этой IDE могут с ее помощью быстро разрабатывать, тестировать и развертывать веб-приложения.

Поддерживаемые языки: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Ruby, Rails, PHP и Python.

Особенности:

  • Подсказки для CSS, HTML, JavaScript, PHP и Ruby;
  • Мастер развертывания с простой настройкой и несколькими протоколами, включая Capistrano, FTP, FTPS и SFTP;
  • Возможность автоматической установки созданных приложений Ruby и Rails на серверы хостинга;
  • Интегрированные отладчики для Ruby и Rails и JavaScript;
  • Интеграция с Git;
  • Простой доступ к терминалу командной строки с сотнями команд;
  • Строковые пользовательские команды для расширения возможностей.

Недостатки: есть проблемы со стабильностью, и она работает медленно. Поэтому профессиональные разработчики могут предпочесть более мощную HTML среду разработки.

Komodo

Предлагает бесплатную 21-дневную ознакомительную версию, полная версия стоит $99 – $1615 в зависимости от редакции и лицензии. Komodo поддерживает большинство основных языков программирования. Удобный интерфейс позволяет осуществлять расширенное редактирование, а небольшие полезные функции, такие как проверка синтаксиса и одноступенчатая отладка, делают Komodo одной из самых популярных IDE для веб и мобильной разработки.

Поддерживаемые языки: CSS, Go, JavaScript, HTML, NodeJS, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Tcl и другие.

Особенности:

  • Настраиваемый многооконный интерфейс;
  • Интеграция контроля версий для Bazaar, CVS, Git, Mercurial, Perforce и Subversion;
  • Профилирование кода Python и PHP;
  • Возможность развертывания в облаке благодаря Stackato PaaS;
  • Графическая отладка для NodeJS, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby и Tcl;
  • Автоматическое заполнение и рефакторинг;
  • Стабильная производительность на платформах Mac, Linux и Windows

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Недостатки: бесплатная версия среды разработки программного обеспечения не включает в себя все функции. В то же время премиум версия явно стоит своих денег.

RubyMine

Еще одна премиум IDE, разработанная компанией Jet Brains. Предлагается 30-дневная бесплатная ознакомительная версия, полная версия стоит $210 — $687 в год. Удобная навигация, логичная организация рабочего процесса и совместимость с большинством платформ делают RubyMine одним из популярных инструментов для разработчиков.

Поддерживаемые языки: CoffeeScript, CSS, HAML, HTML, JavaScript, LESS, Ruby и Rails, Ruby и SASS.

Особенности:

  • Сниппеты кода, автоматическое заполнение и автоматический рефакторинг;
  • Дерево проектов, которое позволяет быстро анализировать код;
  • Схема модели Rails;
  • Просмотр проекта Rails;
  • RubyMotion поддерживает разработку под iOS;
  • Поддержка стека включает в себя Bundler, pik, rbenv, RVM и другие;
  • Отладчики JavaScript, CoffeeScript и Ruby;
  • Интеграция с CVS, Git, Mercurial, Perforce и Subversion.

Недостатки среды разработки: чтобы RubyMine работала бесперебойно, компьютеру требуется не менее 4 ГБ оперативной памяти. Некоторые пользователи также жалуются на отсутствие опций настройки GUI.

Xcode

Набор инструментов для создания приложений под iPad, iPhone и Mac. Интеграция с Cocoa Touch делает работу в среде Apple простой, вы можете включать такие сервисы, как Game Center или Passbook, одним кликом мыши. Встроенная интеграция с сайтом разработчика помогает создавать полнофункциональные приложения «на лету».

Поддерживаемые языки: AppleScript, C, C++, Java, Objective-C.

Особенности:

  • Элементы пользовательского интерфейса можно легко связать с кодом реализации;
  • Компилятор Apple LLVM сканирует код и предоставляет рекомендации по решению проблем производительности;
  • Панель навигации обеспечивает быстрое перемещение между разделами;
  • Interface Builder позволяет создавать прототипы без написания кода;
  • Пользовательский интерфейс и исходный код можно подключить к сложным прототипам интерфейсов всего за несколько минут;
  • Редактор версий включает в себя файлы журнала и хронологии;
  • Распределение и объединение процессов удобно при командной работе;
  • Test Navigator позволяет быстро тестировать приложения в любой момент разработки;
  • Автоматически создает, анализирует, тестирует и архивирует проекты благодаря интеграции с сервером OX X;
  • Рабочий процесс настраивается с помощью вкладок, поведения и фрагментов;
  • Библиотека инструментов и каталог ресурсов.

Недостатки инструментальной среды разработки: для запуска Xcode нужен компьютер от компании Apple. А для загрузки создаваемых приложений в Apple Store — лицензия разработчика.

Какая IDE окажется лучшей именно для вас зависит от используемой операционной системы, языка программирования и тех платформ, которые вы хотите развивать.

Пропустили ли мы какие-нибудь важные IDE? Напишите об этом в комментариях.

Источник

Всем привет! Сегодня мы рассмотрим новую версию среды программирования от компании Microsoft — Visual Studio 2019. Вы узнаете, что нового появилось в этой версии, в каких редакциях она выпускается, какие системные требования необходимо выполнить для ее установки, где скачать Visual Studio, а также мы подробно разберем процесс установки Visual Studio 2019 в редакции Community на операционную систему Windows 10, и даже создадим и запустим свой первый тестовый проект.

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Содержание

  1. Обзор Visual Studio 2019
  2. Редакции Visual Studio 2019
  3. Системные требования Visual Studio 2019
  4. Что нового в Visual Studio 2019?
  5. Где скачать Visual Studio 2019 Community?
  6. Установка Visual Studio 2019 Community на Windows 10
  7. Шаг 1 – Запускаем установщик
  8. Шаг 2 – Выбор компонентов, настройка установки
  9. Шаг 3 – Процесс установки и его завершение
  10. Создание нового проекта в Visual Studio Community 2019, и запуск первой программы
  11. Видео-инструкция по установке Visual Studio 2019 Community

Visual Studio – это интегрированная среда разработки (IDE) от компании Microsoft.

С помощью Visual Studio можно разрабатывать:

  • Классические приложения для компьютера под управлением операционной системы Windows;
  • Мобильные приложения (Windows, iOS, Android);
  • Web-приложения;
  • Облачные приложения;
  • Различные расширения для Office, SharePoint, а также создание собственных расширений для Visual Studio;
  • Игры;
  • Базы данных SQL Server и SQL Azure.

В Visual Studio Вы можете использовать следующие технологии и языки программирования: .NET, Node.js, C, C#, C++, Python, Visual Basic, F#, JavaScript.

Редакции Visual Studio 2019

Актуальной на текущий момент является версия Visual Studio 2019, выпускается она в следующих редакциях:

  • Community – бесплатная версия среды разработки Visual Studio. Чтобы ее использовать, необходимо создать учетную запись Visual Studio, в противном случае она будет действовать 30 дней. Редакция имеет меньший функционал по сравнению с платными редакциями, однако она включает все необходимое для создания полноценных приложений. Походит для индивидуальных разработчиков и обучения;
  • Professional – редакция содержит профессиональные инструменты для разработки приложений. Функционал в этой редакции все равно не полный, например, это заметно в части инструментов диагностики, отладки и тестирования. Подходит для небольших групп разработчиков;
  • Enterprise – полнофункциональная версия Visual Studio. Комплексное решение для разработки приложений. Подходит для групп любого размера с высокими требованиями к качеству и масштабу.

Более детально посмотреть сравнение редакций Visual Studio 2019 Вы можете на следующей странице — https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/ru/vs/compare/

Системные требования Visual Studio 2019

Среду Visual Studio 2019 можно установить и работать в ней на следующих операционных системах (перечислены официально поддерживаемые версии):

  • Windows 7 с Service Pack 1;
  • Windows 8.1 (с обновлением 2919355);
  • Windows 10 (1703 и выше);
  • Windows Server 2012 R2 (с обновлением 2919355);
  • Windows Server 2016 (Standard и Datacenter);
  • Windows Server 2019 (Standard и Datacenter).

Минимальные требования к оборудованию:

  • Процессор с тактовой частотой не ниже 1,8 ГГц. Рекомендуется использовать как минимум двухъядерный процессор;
  • 2 ГБ оперативной памяти, рекомендуется 8 ГБ (если устанавливать на виртуальную машину, то минимум 2.5 ГБ);
  • Свободного места на жестком диске от 800 мегабайт до 210 гигабайт, в зависимости от установленных компонентов. В большинстве случаев выделяйте как минимум 30 гигабайт, например, я устанавливал всего несколько компонентов, и у меня заняло более 20 ГБ места на жестком диске. Также Microsoft рекомендует устанавливать Visual Studio на SSD диск, я как раз устанавливал на SSD (на своем ноутбуке), скорость работы Visual Studio меня, конечно, порадовала;
  • Видеоадаптер с минимальным разрешением 1280 на 720 пикселей (для оптимальной работы Visual Studio рекомендуется разрешение 1366 на 768 пикселей и более высокое).

Дополнительные важные моменты:

  • Для установки Visual Studio 2019 требуются права администратора;
  • Для работы Visual Studio 2019 требуется платформа .NET Framework 4.7.2, она будет установлена во время установки среды;
  • Варианты «Основные серверные компоненты» и «Минимальный серверный интерфейс» не поддерживаются при запуске на Windows Server;
  • Запуск Visual Studio 2019 (Professional, Community и Enterprise) в контейнерах Windows не поддерживается;
  • Для интеграции Team Foundation Server 2019 с Office требуется Office 2016, Office 2013 или Office 2010;
  • Для установки компоненты «Разработка мобильных приложений на C++, JavaScript или .NET» в ОС Windows 7 требуется PowerShell 3.0 или более поздняя версия;
  • Visual Studio Community 2019 требуется активировать в течение 30 дней после установки, для этого необходимо создать учетную запись.

Заметка! Compiler Explorer интерактивный онлайн компилятор.

Что нового в Visual Studio 2019?

Новых возможностей в среде Visual Studio 2019 появилось очень много, я перечислю только небольшую часть:

  • Новый интерфейс создания проектов;
  • Новые возможности установки обновлений – теперь можно выбрать способ установки обновлений Visual Studio и полностью контролировать его («Сервис -> Параметры»), а также обновления Visual Studio загружаются в фоновом режиме, только когда компьютер бездействует;
  • Доступна совместная работа с другими пользователями с помощью среды Visual Studio Live Share, которая устанавливается по умолчанию;
  • Переработан интерфейс среды, в частности увеличено вертикальное пространство для кода;
  • Добавлен вид расширения: «Бесплатное», «Платное» и «Пробная версия» – теперь гораздо легче распознать версию расширения, также добавлены соответствующие теги, для более удобного поиска;
  • Система управления версиями – теперь можно временно сохранить изменения, чтобы работать над другими задачами, это возможно благодаря поддержке временного хранилища Git средствами Git в Team Explorer;
  • Очистка кода одним щелчком – теперь отреагировать на предупреждения и рекомендации среды можно одним нажатием кнопки;
  • Усовершенствованный поиск – теперь поиск выдает более точные результаты (а также поиск стал возможен в окнах отладки);
  • Индикатор хода выполнения сборки – теперь мы можем наблюдать более подробные сведения о ходе выполнения сборки, полезно, если проект крупный и на его сборку затрачивается много времени.

Более подробно посмотреть все нововведения можете на официальной странице – Заметки о выпуске Visual Studio 2019.

Скачать Visual Studio 2019 в редакции Community можно с официального сайта со страницы загрузки – https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/ru/downloads/

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Также загрузить Visual Studio 2019 Community можно и с отдельной страницы, посвященной редакции Community, вот она – https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/ru/vs/community/

С главной страницы официального сайта также возможно загрузить Visual Studio 2019 Community, только в этом случае необходимо выбрать нужную редакцию.

Платные редакции Professional и Enterprise Вы также можете скачать для тестирования, т.е. они имеют 90-дневную пробную версию.

В результате у Вас должна загрузиться программа установщик vs_Community.exe.

Перед тем как переходить к установке Visual Studio 2019, хотелось бы еще раз отметить, что для того чтобы установить хотя бы пару компонентов (рабочих нагрузок), потребуется достаточно много места на жестком диске (10-20 гигабайт), а если установить больше 2-3 компонентов, то объем может достигать и сотни гигабайт, у меня установка Visual Studio 2019 заняла более 20 ГБ места на жестком диске.

Хорошо, что установщик в 2019 версии Visual Studio (который появился в 2017 версии, но в 2019 он улучшен) позволяет выбрать только те компоненты, которые нужны нам для создания нашего приложения, например, если нам нужно разработать web-приложения, устанавливать рабочие нагрузки для создания классических приложений не требуется, тем самым мы можем экономить место на жестком диске.

Также в случае необходимости мы всегда можем удалить ненужные нам компоненты.

Шаг 1 – Запускаем установщик

Запускаем скаченный установщик, т.е. файл vs_Community.exe.

Сначала установщику необходимо выполнить подготовительные действия, нажимаем «Продолжить», тем самым мы также соглашаемся с условиями лицензионного соглашения.

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После чего загрузятся и установятся необходимые файлы установщика.

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Шаг 2 – Выбор компонентов, настройка установки

После того как установщик выполнит все необходимые предварительные мероприятия, он запустится. Теперь нам нужно выбрать «Рабочие нагрузки», т.е. что мы будем создавать с помощью Visual Studio 2019 Community, я выбрал разработку как классических приложений под компьютер, так и разработку Web-приложений.

В принципе после этого можно сразу нажимать «Установить», но в случае необходимости Вы можете более детально настроить установку, для этого есть дополнительные вкладки: «Отдельные компоненты», «Языковые пакеты» и «Расположения установки».

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Вкладка «Отдельные компоненты» – если есть такая необходимость, Вы можете конкретизировать компоненты, которые необходимо установить, на этой вкладке.

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Вкладка «Языковые пакеты» – по умолчанию установлен язык, соответствующий языку системы, но, если Вам нужен другой, Вы можете изменить его на данной вкладке.

Курс по SQL для начинающих

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Вкладка «Расположения установки» – здесь Вы можете изменить каталог, в который будет установлена среда Visual Studio.

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Шаг 3 – Процесс установки и его завершение

После того как Вы нажали кнопку установить, начнется процесс загрузки и установки всех выбранных компонентов. В зависимости от объема компонентов, скорости интернета и характеристик ПК продолжительность данного процесса будет различаться, специально я не засекал, но мне кажется, он у меня длился минут 20-30.

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Когда появится следующее окно, установка будет завершена, нажимаем «Перезагрузить».

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Заметка! О статическом анализе кода в теории и на практике.

Теперь я предлагаю запустить Visual Studio Community 2019, и посмотреть, как она выглядит, и для примера давайте даже создадим проект программы, и запустим его на выполнение.

При первом запуске нам предлагают войти в учетную запись, если она есть, то входите, если нет, Вы можете ее создать прямо сейчас, также возможно отложить создание учетной записи, для этого просто нажимайте кнопку «Не сейчас! Возможно, позже.»

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Затем выбирайте цветовую схему оформления среды Visual Studio и нажимайте «Запуск Visual Studio».

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Далее, так как никаких проектов у нас еще нет, мы можем создать новый проект, или продолжить без кода и создать проект позднее.

Для примера я сразу создам проект.

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В качестве шаблона проекта я выберу «Мастер классических приложений Windows».

Нажимаем «Далее».

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Затем указываем название проекта и расположение файлов этого проекта.

Нажимаем «Создать».

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Заметка! Этапы разработки программы – как создаются и проектируются программы?

Потом выбираем тип приложения и дополнительные параметры, если требуется. Я выберу «Классическое приложение», параметры оставлю по умолчанию. Нажимаем «ОК».

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В итоге будет создан шаблон программы, включая код, который, кстати, будет подробно прокомментирован на русском языке, и все необходимые ресурсы, т.е. по факту шаблонная программа уже будет создана, и чтобы запустить ее, можете сразу нажать на кнопку «Локальный отладчик Windows», на панели инструментов.

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В результате запустится программа, в которой даже будет меню.

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Таким образом, Visual Studio может за нас сделать огромную часть работы, а нам останется только разработать нужный нам функционал, и включить его в эту шаблонную программу (конечно же, если речь идет о простых программах).

Видео-инструкция по установке Visual Studio 2019 Community

Заметка! Как измерить сложность кода программы при программировании?

На этом мой обзор среды Visual Studio 2019 Community закончен, надеюсь, материал был Вам полезен, пока!

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В этой статье мы расскажем, что такое IDE, сделаем обзор лучших сред для веб-разработки.

Что такое IDE

IDE (Integrated Development Environment) — это набор программных инструментов, которые используются для создания ПО. Второе название — интегрированная среда разработки.

Среда разработки состоит из четырех компонентов:

  • текстовый редактор, который позволяет писать код внутри среды;
  • отладчик, который ищет ошибки в программе и ядрах операционной системы;
  • транслятор, который может включать в себя компилятор и интерпретатор. Компилятор переводит написанный код в набор машинных команд, а интерпретатор исполняет код;
  • средства автоматизации для высокой скорости разработки и сборки проекта.

Для чего нужны IDE

IDE предназначены для упрощения разработки программы. Как правило, среды разработки имеют следующий функционал:

  • писать, просматривать, запускать и править код внутри одного окна;
  • тестировать написанный функционал, если среда позволяет эмулировать устройства;
  • устанавливать новые компоненты;
  • создавать и редактировать проекты, а также управлять ими;
  • работать с системой контроля версий ПО;
  • разрабатывать графический интерфейс, если интегрированная среда включает в себя визуальный редактор.

Какую IDE выбрать

При выборе интегрированной среды разработки стоит опираться на следующие критерии:

  • Совместимость с вашей платформой. Как правило, IDE совместимы с большинством популярных операционных систем. Однако некоторые среды разработки могут работать только на определенных ОС.
  • Простота работы. Этот параметр зависит от вашего удобства: рекомендуем протестировать несколько решений и выбрать наиболее оптимальное.
  • Поддерживаемые языки. При выборе среды разработки проверьте, поддерживает ли она язык вашего проекта.
  • Стоимость. Существуют бесплатные, условно-бесплатные и платные варианты IDE. Подробнее об этом расскажем ниже.

Лучшие бесплатные IDE

Бесплатные IDE — это среды разработки, которые относятся к категории свободно распространяемого ПО. Простыми словами, вы можете свободно скачивать, устанавливать и работать с программой, а также вносить изменения в код — это будет бесплатно.

Code::Blocks

Code::Blocks — свободно распространяемая среда разработки, которая поддерживает большое количество компиляторов и отладчиков. Эта IDE не требовательна к ресурсам и позволяет расширить функционал с помощью бесплатных плагинов.

Codeblocks

Официальный сайт Code::Blocks: http://www.codeblocks.org/

Совместимость с операционными системами: Windows, Linux и macOS.

Поддержка языков: C, C++ и Fortran.

Плюсы:

  • высокая производительность,
  • встроенная система быстрой сборки,
  • удобное меню.

Минусы:

  • есть баги,
  • устаревший интерфейс.

Komodo

Komodo — это свободно распространяемая IDE, которая используется для web и мобильной разработки. Она поддерживает большое число языков программирования.

Komodo

Официальный сайт Komodo: https://www.activestate.com/products/komodo-ide/

Совместимость с операционными системами: Windows, Linux и macOS.

Поддержка языков: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, NodeJS, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby и др.

Плюсы:

  • удобная кастомизация,
  • «умная» подсветка кода,
  • поддержка систем контроля версий,
  • простой визуальный отладчик.

Весомых минусов не имеет.

Xcode

Xcode — это интегрированная среда разработки, которая специализируется на создании приложений для устройств Apple: iPhone, iPad, Mac и др.

Xcode

Официальный сайт Xcode: https://developer.apple.com/xcode/

Совместимость с операционными системами: macOS.

Поддержка языков: AppleScript, C, C++, Objective-C, Java и Swift.

Плюсы:

  • создание прототипов без необходимости писать код,
  • «умный» анализатор кода,
  • компилятор от Apple.

Из серьезных минусов можно выделить один: эта IDE работает поддерживает только macOS.

Eclipse

Eclipse — это свободно распространяемая среда разработки, которая обладает гибким функционалом: к примеру, она включает в себя инструменты отладки и поддержки Git/CVS.

Eclipse

Официальный сайт Eclipse: https://www.eclipse.org/ide/

Совместимость с операционными системами: Windows, Linux и macOS.

Поддержка языков: Java, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby и др.

Плюсы:

  • поддержка многих языков программирования,
  • удаленная отладка при использовании JVM,
  • гибкость настройки,
  • можно интегрировать JUnit.

Рекомендуем Eclipse для опытных разработчиков, так как новичку будет сложно изучить весь функционал среды.

NetBeans

NetBeans — это среда разработки, которая подходит для создания нового проекта и интеграции существующего. Она идеально подойдет для приложений на Java.

NetBeans

Официальный сайт NetBeans: https://netbeans.org/

Совместимость с операционными системами: Windows, Linux и macOS.

Поддержка языков: Java, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby и др.

Плюсы:

  • совместимость с популярными операционными системами;
  • возможность удаленной разработки;
  • доступность динамических и статических библиотек;
  • поддержка компиляторов на выбор: Oracle Solaris Studio, Cygwin, MinGW, GNU и CLang/LLVM;
  • поддержка Qt.

NetBeans требовательна к ресурсам, поэтому для корректной работы требуется мощный компьютер.

Лучшие условно-бесплатные IDE

Условно-бесплатные IDE — это среды разработки, которые могут быть платными в зависимости от функционала. Их исходный код закрыт от редактирования. Это значит, что вы свободно пользуетесь программой, но не можете вносить изменения в ее код.

Microsoft Visual Studio

Microsoft Visual Studio — это среда разработки с гибкими возможностями для создания приложений: например, она позволяет написать веб-приложение или видеоигру. Эта IDE адаптирована для Windows и macOS. Стоимость лицензии MS Visual Studio зависит от типа подписки: также есть бесплатная версия.

Microsoft Visual Studio

Официальный сайт Microsoft Visual Studio: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/ru/

Совместимость с операционными системами: Windows и macOS.

Поддержка языков: ASP.NET, Ajax, DHTML, ASP.NET, Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual C++, Visual F#, XAML, JavaScript, и др.

Плюсы:

  • кастомизация рабочей панели,
  • есть автодополнение IntelliSense,
  • поддержка разделенного экрана,
  • большое число расширений.

Visual Studio требовательна к ресурсам, поэтому для работы потребуется мощный компьютер.

IntelliJ IDEA

IntelliJ IDEA — это среда разработки с бесплатной версией и тестовым периодом для платной лицензии на 30 дней. Изначально эта IDE создавалась для работы с JavaScript и Java, но по мере развития были добавлены другие языки.

IntelliJ IDEA

Официальный сайт IntelliJ IDEA: https://www.jetbrains.com/ru-ru/idea/

Совместимость с операционными системами: Windows, Linux и macOS.

Поддержка языков: AngularJS, Scala, Groovy, AspectJ, Java, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, HTML, PHP, Kotlin, JavaScript, LESS, NodeJS, Python, Ruby, Sass, SQL и др.

Плюсы:

  • инструменты для анализа кода на Java, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Groovy, Scala, HTML, CSS, XML, ActionScript, LESS и др.;
  • интеграция с серверами приложений Tomcat, TomEE, Geronimo, Resin, Jetty, Virgo, GlassFish, JBoss, WebLogic, WebSphere;
  • доступ к системам управления версиями ClearCase, Perforce, Team Foundation Server, Visual SourceSafe;
  • инструменты для работы с базами данных.

Эта среда подойдет для опытных разработчиков: она достаточно сложна для начинающих.

PyCharm

PyCharm — это среда разработки, которая распространяется с платной и бесплатной лицензией. Существует бесплатная версия этой IDE, но она предназначена только для Python.

PyCharm

Официальный сайт PyCharm: https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/

Совместимость с операционными системами: Windows, Linux и macOS.

Поддержка языков: Python, Jython, Cython, IronPython, PyPy, AngularJS, Coffee Script, HTML, CSS, XML, Django, Jinja2 templates, Gql, LESS, SASS, SCSS, HAML, Mako, Puppet, RegExp, Rest, SQL, YAML и др.

Плюсы:

  • интеграция с системой контроля версий VCS;
  • диаграммы классов и моделей Django, Google App Engine.

Из минусов можно выделить один — иногда встречаются баги.

Лучшие платные IDE

Платные IDE — это среды разработки, которые предоставляются только платно. У этих сред отсутствуют бесплатные версии ПО с ограниченным функционалом.

CLion

CLion — это IDE, которая подходит для работы с C++. Также в нее интегрирована поддержка других языков — о них расскажем ниже.

CLion

Официальный сайт CLion: https://www.jetbrains.com/ru-ru/clion/

Совместимость с операционными системами: Windows, Linux и macOS.

Поддержка языков: С++, C, Objective C, JavaScript, Python, Kotlin, Swift, Fortran, CSS и др.

Плюсы:

  • возможность удаленного подключения по SSH,
  • кастомизация редактора кода,
  • быстрый рефакторинг,
  • справка о значении переменных встроена в редактор,
  • «умный» редактор кода,
  • IDE подходит для программирования микроконтроллеров.

У CLion нет бесплатной версии. Однако можно воспользоваться 30-дневным пробным периодом.

PHPStorm

PHPStorm — это IDE, которая подходит для взаимодействия с PHP. Среда PHPStormглубоко анализирует код и позволяет работать с популярными CMS.

PHPStorm

Официальный сайт PhpStorm: https://www.jetbrains.com/ru-ru/phpstorm/

Совместимость с операционными системами: Windows, Linux и macOS.

Поддержка языков: PHP, JavaScript, SASS, LESS, HTML, CSS и др.

Плюсы:

  • автодополнение кода,
  • простая навигация,
  • возможность работы с базами данных,
  • безопасный рефакторинг,
  • предпросмотр на основе Live Edit.

У PhpStorm нет бесплатной версии. Однако можно воспользоваться 30-дневным пробным периодом.

Мы рассказали об интегрированных средах, которым чаще всего отдают предпочтение разработчики. Какая из этих IDE лучше — решать вам.

Кстати, всем нашим клиентам на любом тарифе виртуального хостинга доступен простой, но удобный редактор кода прямо в панели управления хостингом.

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