Visual Studio community for Mac

Visual Studio community for Mac is a complete feature and free IDE to create modern applications for Android, iOS, macOS, as well as web applications and cloud services. Try out Visual Studio community for macOS for a fully equipped and scalable IDE. An updated alternative to Visual Studio Express.

A brand new workload-based installer optimizes your installation to make sure you have everything you need and nothing. Encode confidently in your language, quickly identify and correct code issues, and play easily. Detect errors quickly finding and correcting errors. Find and diagnose performance issues with profiling tools. Tools for Apache Cordova, Xamarin, and Unity are available for download for code activation, debugging, testing, sharing, and reuse for multiple platforms. Develop for the Web with ASP.NET, Node.js, Python and JavaScript. Use with powerful web frameworks like AngularJS, jQuery, Bootstrap, Django and Backbone.js.

Manage your source code in Git repositories hosted by any provider, including GitHub. Or use Visual Studio Team Services to manage code along with bugs and worksheets for your entire project. When you connect Visual Studio community for Mac, you have access to a wide range of free developer tools, selected on-demand Xamarin University courses, Pluralsight training, Azure credits and more as part of Visual Studio Dev Essentials.

Features and best moments

Custom installer
Develop for WPF, WinForms, ASP.NET, Universal Windows Platform, Win32, Android, iOS, macOS and many more platforms all from one IDE with everything you need.

Fast coding
With faster project load times and performance improvements, you can work faster with your favorite languages ​​like C / C ++, C #, Visual Basic, F #, Python and more.

Improved productivity
Code editing, navigation, and debugging are made easy by features such as XAML Edit & Continue, enhanced IntelliSense, enhanced code reformatting, live code analysis, and the ability to open any folder without the need for projects or solutions.

Modern web
Take advantage of modern web development with JavaScript, ASP.NET, Python and more with powerful coding tools such as rich IntelliSense integrations, first-class debugging and performance profiles.

Vibrating ecosystem
Access to thousands of extensions that Express does not have, such as GitHub Extension, Resharper, Visual Assist. And basic web elements.

Note: Cannot be used in a corporate environment. Limited functionality in demo version.

Also available: Download Visual Studio community for Windows