Visual Studio 2022 IDE – AI for coding debugging and testing2025-03-20T14:39:08-07:00
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Powerful IDE, made smarter with AI

GitHub Copilot Free. No trial. No subscription. No credit card.

Productivity boosting AI assistance

Always up-to-date AI models

  • Access the latest AI models to get the most accurate, context-aware suggestions in Chat or inline.
  • Switch between models to leverage their unique strengths for different tasks.
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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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Real-time AI guidance

  • Leverage context-aware code completions and suggestions.
  • Chat for guidance on code, debugging, unit tests, and more.
  • Use Copilot Edits for multi-file editing with code review, in-file preview, and rollback experience.
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 deployment and data

Visual Studio is built for Azure, giving you everything you need to build, deploy, and manage cloud applications. Seamlessly provision Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, and other Azure Data services—right from the IDE. Automate CI/CD with Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions, and debug live cloud applications with the integrated remote debugger for a seamless development experience.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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GitHub Actions
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A window that provides a view of GitHub Actions for the current repo of the opened solution in Visual Studio. Provided by @timheuer

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Markdown Editor v2
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A full featured Markdown editor with live preview and syntax highlighting. Supports GitHub flavored Markdown.

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Visual Studio Theme Pack
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Collection of popular themes, now available for Visual Studio.

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SQLite and SQL Server Compact Toolbox
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This extension adds several features to help your embedded database development efforts.

Visual Studio Community 2022

Free, fully-featured IDE for students, open-source and individual developers.

Visual Studio Professional 2022

Powerful developer tools, services, and subscription benefits for efficient small-team collaboration.

Visual Studio Enterprise 2022

Advanced debugging, enterprise security, AI-assisted development—plus Azure Credits and Dev/Test pricing for the cloud.