Presenting custom development tools
In this section, you will learn about the most important Microsoft and community tools that are used for custom development within Power Platform solutions. This toolset primarily focuses on IT pro developers.
Learning about Visual Studio
Visual Studio is the traditional major development tool from Microsoft and is used for all custom development work across all Microsoft and many non-Microsoft technologies. Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) that supports not just writing code, but also compiling, building, debugging, and packaging it into solution packages. Visual Studio is available for Windows and Mac PCs. Visual Studio offers several versions, of which Visual Studio Community is free of charge.
For the Power Platform solutions, Visual Studio is used for creating many different custom development artifacts – preferably those that are heavily dependent on the Microsoft .NET framework, such as the following...