Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE). The “integrated” part of IDE means that Visual Studio contains features that complement every aspect of software development: Multiple languages and platforms Use the same editor to work with C, Python, C#, and more. Visual Studio for Mac Develop apps and games for iOS, Android, and web using.NET.
What You Need to Know about Visual Studio Code: A Tutorial Every cowboy needs a horse, every Batman needs a Robin, and every coder needs a great code editor. When you work with code every day, you must have a go-to code editor. For many developers out there, Visual Studio (VS) Code is their editor of choice.
Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE). The “integrated” part of IDE means that Visual Studio contains features that complement every aspect of software development:
Intelligent code completion
Code more efficiently — Visual Studio automatically analyzes your code to point out errors and offer suggestions while you type.Advanced debugging
Step through your code line by line to quickly find problems in your code.Comprehensive project system
Spend less time on setup and configuration — Visual Studio creates projects with relevant tools and runtimes.
Multiple languages and platforms
Use the same editor to work with C++, Python, C#, and more.
In these docs, we’ll give you a quick overview of the editor and introduce you to some of its key features. You’ll learn how to create and run a program, how to use Visual Studio’s code editing features to be more productive, and how to fix bugs in your code using Visual Studio’s debugger.
About Visual Studio And How It Works
A quick note about this overview
About Visual Studio Code
You can use Visual Studio to write code in C++, C#, Visual Basic, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, and more, but for the purpose of this overview, we’ll show you examples using C#. You can use C# in Visual Studio by selecting the .NET Core workload during installation. If you’ve already installed Visual Studio, you can add the .NET Core workload by opening the Visual Studio Installer program on your computer and modifying your installation.
If you’re just getting started and looking to work with a different language, this document can still be helpful to get an overview of Visual Studio, but you may prefer to also review one of the language-specific quick starts:
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