Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 is a professional IDE with powerful coding productivity features, cross-platform mobile development tools for Windows, iOS and Android, tools for web and cloud development, and access to thousands of extensions.
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Visual Studio uses Microsoft software development platforms such as Windows API, Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Store and Microsoft Silverlight. It can produce both native code and managed code.
Visual Studio supports 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. Built-in languages include C, C++ and C++/CLI, VB.NET, C#, and F#. Support for other languages such as Python, Ruby, Node.js, and M among others is available via language services installed separately. It also supports XML/XSLT, HTML/XHTML, JavaScript and CSS.
Microsoft Visual Studio is offered in three editions: Community (Replaced Express), Professional and Enterprise. Compare Editions
Is Visual Studio for Mac the same as Windows? / What is the difference between "Visual Studio for Windows" and "Visual Studio for Mac"? Yes, VS for Windows and VS for Mac mostly have the same features, so you should expect to have the same coding experience. The only difference is that VS for Mac has the interface design of the native macOS.
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Last Update: May 13, 2019
Current Version: 15.9.23 for Windows / 7.8.4 for Mac
License: Freeware / Shareware
Languages:
English, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, and Turkish.
Supported Operating Systems:
Windows 7 SP1 / 8.1 / 10 v1507 or higher / Server 2008 / Server 2012 R2 / Server 2016 (32-Bit, 64-Bit)
Mac OS X 10.11-10.12
Developer: Microsoft
Homepage: VisualStudio.com
Fix crash when specific unnamed code constructs were used in C/C++ code
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