The most basic edition of Visual Studio, the Community edition, is available free of charge. Java (and J#) were supported in the past. Support for other languages such as Python, Ruby, Node.js, and M among others is available via plug-ins. NET, C#, F#, JavaScript, TypeScript, XML, XSLT, HTML, and CSS.

Built-in languages include C, C++, C++/CLI, Visual Basic. 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. 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). Other built-in tools include a code profiler, designer for building GUI applications, web designer, class designer, and database schema designer. The integrated debugger works both as a source-level debugger and a machine-level debugger. Visual Studio includes a code editor supporting IntelliSense (the code completion component) as well as code refactoring.

It can produce both native code and managed code.

Visual Studio uses Microsoft software development platforms such as Windows API, Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Store and Microsoft Silverlight. It is used to develop computer programs, as well as websites, web apps, web services and mobile apps. Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft. Chinese, Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish and Turkish

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