Visual Studio Community Edition is a powerful, full-featured integrated development environment (IDE) tool for creating applications (apps) for mobile devices such as smartphones and tables, desktop computer, the Web and in the Cloud.
It includes all the tools you need in a single package - Designers, Editors, Debuggers and Profilers but the Lab Management and Team Foundation Server features are not available in this free Community edition.
Visual Studio allows you to use the language of your choice for coding and programming. It supports Visual C#, Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual F#, JavaScript, Python, TypeScript and other language types.
You can customize Visual Studio with thousands of available extensions or you can even build your own extensions.
Visual Studio Community Edition can be used by individual developer to create free or paid apps or by organizations in classroom learning, academic research, contributing to open source projects. Enterprise organizations are not permitted to use this edition beyond the above described scenarios.
Features of Visual Studio Community Edition includes:
Diagnostic and Debugging Tools
- Code Metrics
- Graphics Debugging
- Browser Link
- Static Code Analysis
- Debugger
- Performance and Diagnostics Hub
- Windows Simulator
- Windows Phone Edulator
- Visual Studio Emulator for Android
Testing Tools
- Extensible Testing Framework
- Unit Testing
IDE
- Peek Definition
- Refactoring
- One-Click Web Deployment
- Extensible Environment
- Model Resource Viewer
- Multi-Targeting
- Blend
- JavaScript and jQuery Support
- Project and Solution Compatibility with Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and Visual Studio 2012
Supported Development Platform
- Windows Desktop
- Windows Phone and Store Apps
- Universal Windows Apps
- Web (ASP.NET)
- Office 365, Office and SharePoint
- Office 365 Cloud Business Apps
- Business Applications (LightSwitch)
- Cloud (Microsoft Azure)
- SQL Server (SSDT)
- Apache Cordova
- C++ Cross-Platform Library Development
- Python
- Node.js
Xamarin Mobile Development
- Share code between Android, iOS and Windows
- Native iOS and Android UI Designers
- Xamarin.Forms
Architecture and Modeling
- Visualize solutions with Dependency Graphs and Code Maps
