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Powerful IDE, made smarter with AI

Agent mode – now available in GitHub Copilot Free

Experience AI-powered coding assistance that reasons through problems, coordinates next steps, applies changes, and iterates on errors.

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Productivity boosting AI assistance

Real AI-solutions with agent mode

Plan, build, test, and fix—all from a single prompt.
Describe your need in natural language, let Copilot do the rest.
Run linters, tests, and commands without leaving Visual Studio.

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Always up-to-date AI models

Access the latest AI models to get the most accurate, context-aware suggestions in Chat or inline.
Select a model to match the need of each task.

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Free and fully integrated in Visual Studio

AI-powered coding assistance, integrated into Visual Studio.
Receive 2,000 code completions.
Get 50 chat messages free per month.

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Copilot: your pair programmer

Speed up development with context-aware code completion suggestions for a single line or an entire code snippet. Use Copilot Edits for multi-file editing with code review, in-file preview, and rollback experience.

How to use Copilot for code suggestions

Chat for assistance with code and queries

Get real-time help for your coding queries with GitHub Copilot Chat. The conversational Chat interface provides instant context aware suggestions, assists with debugging, and generates units tests, all within your development environment.

Tips to improve Copilot Chat results

Debugging made easy with Copilot

Accelerate debugging with deep insights into your code, powered by AI. Copilot offers in-depth analysis and explanations to provide targeted solutions for exceptions, deadlocks, and other debugging scenarios.

Streamline your debugging process

Improve testing efficiency through Copilot

Reduce time spent on manual test creation and maintaining code quality. Copilot’s automation helps you improve reliability by identifying errors early with unit and integration tests based on your existing code.

Use copilot to fix errors

Leverage Copilot to streamline version control

Maintain a clean and organized codebase with AI-generated commit messages based on code changes. GitHub Copilot simplifies your version control by ensuring clarity in your workflow, branch management, and merge conflicts.

Generate commit messages with GitHub Copilot Chat

Share more than screens

Live Share’s real-time collaboration sessions speed up your team’s edit and debugging cycles, no matter the language or platform. Personalized sessions with access controls and custom editor settings make sure everyone stays code-consistent.

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Azure in Visual Studio

Build, deploy, and scale with Azure in Visual Studio: Create cloud-first applications efficiently and securely using integrated tools and AI capabilities—all within your IDE. Whether developing web apps, APIs, or AI-powered solutions, Visual Studio offers seamless Azure integration for a streamlined coding experience. Explore tutorials, elevate your coding, and automate deployments with Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions. Connect to Azure services, deploy applications, and debug in real-time with Visual Studio’s powerful tools.

Learn more about Azure in Visual Studio

Design beautiful cross platform apps

Visual Studio is the best IDE for building modern, cross-platform applications for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android. Create rich client apps with WinForms, WPF, WinUI, and MAUI, using powerful visual designers that simplify complex layouts and bring your UI to life.

Visualization and modeling

Build fast and responsive apps with the built-in
profiling tools

Use the profiling tools in Visual Studio to build fast and responsive .NET and C++ applications for web and client. With profilers for CPU, memory, XAML, databases, events, and more you have a whole suite of tools that help you identify and resolve performance issues.

Measure app performance

Tools to make SQL a breeze

Work with SQL projects without leaving the IDE. Build out queries with rich editing experiences, view and explore servers and databases. Visualize database schemas and queries all from within Visual Studio.

Accessing data in Visual Studio

Make it your own

Configure and theme just like you would expect from any modern development tool. Whether you choose one of the default themes already installed or explore new themes from the Visual Studio Marketplace, you have the freedom to make your editor or IDE truly yours.

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Take it further with extensions

Extensions are add-ons that customize and enhance Visual Studio, including extra settings, features, or uses for existing tools. With thousands of extensions on the marketplace, you’ve got options galore to increase your productivity and cater to your workflow.

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