Visual Studio IDE documentation

An integrated development environment (IDE) is a feature-rich application that can be used for many aspects of software development. The Visual Studio IDE makes it easy to edit, debug, build, and publish your app.

Get started

Overview

• What is Visual Studio?

Download

• Download Visual Studio

Get started

• Install Visual Studio

Use Visual Studio

Get started

• Start in the code editor

Overview

• Track versions with Git

How-To Guide

• Personalize the IDE
• Create a new project
• Search code and features
• Compile and build
• Run a program
• Productivity features
• Open a developer command prompt
• Manage extensions

Develop in your language

Tutorial

• C#
• C++
• Visual Basic
• Python
• JavaScript
• F#

Use AI in Visual Studio

Overview

• AI-assisted development in Visual Studio

How-To Guide

• Use GitHub Copilot
• Use GitHub Copilot Chat
• Debug with Copilot

Discover what's new

What's new

• Release notes
• What's new in Visual Studio 2022
• What's new in Visual Studio 2019
• What's new in the docs