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Visual Studio Community
A fully-featured, extensible, free IDE for creating modern applications for Android, iOS, Windows, as well as web applications and cloud services.
Flexibility
Build apps for any platform
Productivity
Designers, editors, debuggers, profilers, in one single tool
Ecosystem
Access to thousands of extensions
Languages
Code in C#, Visual Basic, F#, C++, HTML, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, and more
Exciting benefits
When you sign into Visual Studio Community, 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.
Any individual developer can use Visual Studio Community to create their own free or paid apps.
An unlimited number of users within an organization can use Visual Studio Community for the following scenarios: in a classroom learning environment, for academic research, or for contributing to open source projects.
For all other usage scenarios:
In non-enterprise organizations, up to five users can use Visual Studio Community. In enterprise organizations (meaning those with >250 PCs or >$1 Million US Dollars in annual revenue), no use is permitted beyond the open source, academic research, and classroom learning environment scenarios described above.
Free, fully-featured IDE for students, open-source and individual developers.
Powerful developer tools, services, and subscription benefits for efficient small-team collaboration.
Advanced debugging, enterprise security, AI-assisted development—plus Azure Credits and Dev/Test pricing for the cloud.