Visual Studio

Name: Visual Studio
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IDE for .NET and C++ development on Windows

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Overview

What Visual Studio does

Visual Studio is Microsoft's IDE for .NET and C++ development on Windows, with the free Community edition and paid Professional and Enterprise subscriptions.

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Community edition is free only for individual developers, classroom use, academic research and open-source contribution, not general commercial use
Monthly subscriptions are $45 per user per month for Professional and $250 per user per month for Enterprise, and do not include perpetual use rights the way annual Standard subscriptions do
A standalone perpetually licensed Visual Studio Professional 2022 costs $499 as a one-time purchase, separate from the subscription tiers

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