Starting with the Visual Studio IDE
The Visual Studio (VS) IDE is an IDE available for Windows developed by Microsoft. VS was available for macOS but is being deprecated in August 2024. It’s important to distinguish it from VS Code, the other IDE by Microsoft.
VS comes in a few flavors: Community, Professional, and Enterprise. The Community version is free, allowing up to five users in a company. More mature companies will need to pay licensing fees, which start from $45 per user monthly. Figure 3.5 shows what VS Community looks like:
Figure 3.5: The main window of VS 2022
Like the other IDEs discussed in this chapter, you can enable dark mode if you prefer. Let’s move on to the noteworthy features of this IDE.
Why you might like it
This IDE shares many features with VS Code, offering an experience of a similar flavor but in a much more refined form. The suite is full of features, many of which utilize GUIs, wizards, and visual elements. Most...
