Additional Information
Free, fully-featured IDE for students, open-source and individual developers!
| Version | Visual Studio Community 8.10.25.2 |
| Requirements |
macOS 10.13 High Sierra or later |
| Updated | June 25, 2023 |
| Author | Microsoft Corporation |
| Category | Developer Tools |
| License | Demo |
| Language | English |
| Download | 201 |
Overview
Visual Studio Community for Mac is a full-featured and free IDE for creating modern applications for Android, iOS, macOS, as well as web applications and cloud services. Try out Visual Studio Community for macOS for a fully-featured and extensible IDE; An updated alternative to Visual Studio Express.
A brand-new workload-based installer optimizes your installation to make sure you have everything you need and nothing you don’t. Code with confidence in your language, find and fix code issues quickly, and refactor with ease. Debug to quickly find and fix bugs. Find and diagnose performance issues with the profiling tools. Tools for Apache Cordova, Xamarin, and Unity available for download to enable code, debug, test, share, and reuse for more platforms. Develop for the web with ASP.NET, Node.js, Python, and JavaScript. Use with powerful web frameworks such as AngularJS, jQuery, Bootstrap, Django, and Backbone.js.
Manage your source code in Git repos hosted by any provider, including GitHub. Or use Visual Studio Team Services to manage code alongside bugs and work items for your whole project. When you sign into Visual Studio Community for Mac, you get access to a broad set of free developer tools, selected Xamarin University courses on-demand, Pluralsight training, Azure credits, and more as part of Visual Studio Dev Essentials.
Features and Highlights
Customized installer
Develop for WPF, WinForms, ASP.NET, Universal Windows Platform, Win32, Android, iOS, macOS and many more platforms all from one IDE with everything you need.
Get to coding faster
With faster project load times and performance improvements, you can get to working faster with your favorite languages such as C/C++, C#, Visual Basic, F#, Python, and more.
Improved productivity
Code editing, navigation, and debugging are made easier with features like XAML Edit & Continue, improved IntelliSense, enhanced code refactoring, live code analysis, and the ability to open any folder without needing projects or solutions.
Modern Web
Tap into modern web development with JavaScript, ASP.NET, Python, and more with powerful coding tools like rich IntelliSense completions, first class debugging, and performance profilers.
Vibrant ecosystem
Access to thousands of extensions that Express lacks, such as GitHub Extension, Resharper, Visual Assist. And Web Essentials.
Note: Cannot be used in an enterprise environment. Limited functionality in demo version.
A brand-new workload-based installer optimizes your installation to make sure you have everything you need and nothing you don’t. Code with confidence in your language, find and fix code issues quickly, and refactor with ease. Debug to quickly find and fix bugs. Find and diagnose performance issues with the profiling tools. Tools for Apache Cordova, Xamarin, and Unity available for download to enable code, debug, test, share, and reuse for more platforms. Develop for the web with ASP.NET, Node.js, Python, and JavaScript. Use with powerful web frameworks such as AngularJS, jQuery, Bootstrap, Django, and Backbone.js.
Manage your source code in Git repos hosted by any provider, including GitHub. Or use Visual Studio Team Services to manage code alongside bugs and work items for your whole project. When you sign into Visual Studio Community for Mac, you get access to a broad set of free developer tools, selected Xamarin University courses on-demand, Pluralsight training, Azure credits, and more as part of Visual Studio Dev Essentials.
Features and Highlights
Customized installer
Develop for WPF, WinForms, ASP.NET, Universal Windows Platform, Win32, Android, iOS, macOS and many more platforms all from one IDE with everything you need.
Get to coding faster
With faster project load times and performance improvements, you can get to working faster with your favorite languages such as C/C++, C#, Visual Basic, F#, Python, and more.
Improved productivity
Code editing, navigation, and debugging are made easier with features like XAML Edit & Continue, improved IntelliSense, enhanced code refactoring, live code analysis, and the ability to open any folder without needing projects or solutions.
Modern Web
Tap into modern web development with JavaScript, ASP.NET, Python, and more with powerful coding tools like rich IntelliSense completions, first class debugging, and performance profilers.
Vibrant ecosystem
Access to thousands of extensions that Express lacks, such as GitHub Extension, Resharper, Visual Assist. And Web Essentials.
Note: Cannot be used in an enterprise environment. Limited functionality in demo version.
