VISUAL STUDIO 2015

 

Welcome to Visual Studio! We’ve got everything you need to create great apps for devices or desktop apps, for the web and in the cloud. Write code for iOS, Android, and Windows in one IDE. Get great IntelliSense, easy code navigation, fast builds, and quick deployment. Visual Studio increases your productivity and makes it easy to do your work alone or as part of a larger team.

Download Visual Studio Community for free to start coding right away. If you want to do cross-platform development, make sure that you install the optional packages. (You can get more features with other editions of Visual Studio.)

Jump right in, create a new project, and start writing code. Choose the type of app you want to create. Or you can take a tour of the Visual Studio IDE to get familiar with the tools.

And don’t forget to explore our code gallery to find samples to help you write your app more quickly!
 Extend Visual Studio

Add your own Visual Studio extension to include a tool or script that you often use while coding. You can create custom menu items and tool windows to integrate your own tools into the Visual Studio IDE. You can extend the Visual Studio editor to analyze and fix code, or add a new project type to include just what you need.

To find the latest version of the Visual Studio Extensibility Tools (VS SDK), see Visual Studio SDK.

You can use the .NET Compiler Platform (Roslyn) to write your own code analyzers and code generators. Find everything you need at Roslyn.

Find existing extensions for the VS IDE created by Microsoft developers as well as our development community.
Build apps for Android, iOS, and Windows

You can use Visual Studio to build apps for Android, iOS, and Windows devices. Learn more about it at Cross-Platform Development in Visual Studio.

For information about Universal Windows Apps (UWP), see Universal Windows Apps.

Choose the tools you need based on your app requirements and the language you want to use.

    Xamarin for Visual Studio: A common code base in C# for all devices

    Apache Cordova with Visual Studio: A common code base for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript or Typescript

    Visual Studio Tools for Unity: 2D/3D game development in C#

    C++ for Cross-Platform Development: Shared code libraries and apps in C++

    Visual Studio Emulator for Android : Visual Studio Emulator for Android: Debug and test your Android apps no matter the IDE