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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.
Visual Studio offers AI-enhanced features for context-aware code completions, AI chat assistance, debugging suggestions, and unit test generation. Use these alongside Git management and cloud deployments for a full end to end developer experience.
Download and install the latest version of Visual Studio to get started. Visual Studio is free for learning and individual use. You can save installation time and disk space by selecting just the components needed. You can incrementally add more components later at any time as needed.
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Visual Studio is a fully-featured IDE whereas Visual Studio Code is a code editor. Visual Studio Code is free and based on open source, and runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
You have the option to buy just the Visual Studio IDE or to also get a comprehensive set of subscriber benefits that include cloud services, software for development and testing, support, training, and more.
