Visual Studio 2022 IDE - AI for coding debugging and testing (2025)

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Powerhouse of AI

Visual Studio offers AI-enhanced features like IntelliSense for context-aware code completions and IntelliCode, which leverages AI patterns from open-source code. Integrated GitHub Copilot provides AI-powered code completions, chat assistance, debugging suggestions, and unit test generation. These capabilities boost productivity and code quality, helping you code faster and smarter.

  • Community 2022

  • Professional 2022

  • Enterprise 2022

AI in Visual Studio Copilot in Visual Studio

Your ideas deserve the best tools

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Productive

Scale to work on projects of any size and complexity with a 64-bit IDE. Code with a new Razor editor that can refactor across files. Diagnose issues with visualizations for async operations and automatic analyzers.

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Modern

Develop cross-platform mobile and desktop apps with .NET MAUI. Build responsive Web UIs in C# with Blazor. Build, debug, and test .NET and C++ apps in Linux environments. Use hot reload capabilities across .NET and C++ apps. Edit running ASP.NET pages in the web designer view.

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Innovative

AI-powered code completions. Work together in real-time with shared coding sessions. Clone repos, navigate work items, and stage individual lines for commits. Automatically set up CI/CD workflows that can deploy to Azure.

  • Develop
  • Debug
  • Test
  • Version Control
  • Collaborate
  • Deploy
  • Design
  • Profile
  • Data

Code with confidence

Code quickly and accurately, using IntelliSense code suggestions. Complete entire lines of code with suggestions from machine learning enabled IntelliCode. Make quick improvements to your code using light bulbs that suggest actions such as renaming a function or adding a parameter.

Organize and edit your code

Tips and tricks

Keyboard shortcuts

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Stop problems before they happen

Integrated debugging is a core part of every Visual Studio product. You can step through your code and look at the values stored in variables, set watches on variables to see when values change, examine the execution path of your code, and just about anything else you need to check out under the hood.

Debugging for beginners

Find the debug feature you need

Tips and tricks

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Instant impact

Analyze how much code you’re testing and see instant results in a test suite that’s been optimized for efficiency. Know the impact of every change you make with advanced features that test code as you type. With WSL integration, you can test on both Windows and Linux to make sure your app runs everywhere.

Overview of all testing tools

Get started with unit tests

Determine test coverage

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Integrated version control

With the integrated Git features, you can clone, create, or open your own repositories. The Git tool window has everything you need for committing and pushing changes to code, managing branches, and resolving merge conflicts. If you have a GitHub account, you can manage those repos directly within Visual Studio.

Learn about version control

Version control is easy with Git

Visual Studio and GitHub

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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.

Collaborate with Live Share

Common use cases

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Azure deployment

Deploying to the cloud hasn’t been easier. We supply all the templates you’ll need for common application types and local emulators. And you can stay right in Visual Studio to provision dependencies, like Azure SQL databases and Azure Storage accounts. You can even diagnose any issues quickly with the remote debugger attached directly to your application.

Deployment in Visual Studio

Deploy to Azure

Connected Services

Get started with free Azure credits

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Design beautiful cross platform apps

Visual Studio is the best IDE to build rich, beautiful, cross platform applications for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android. Build rich clients apps using a range of technologies such as; WinForms, WPF, WinUI, MAUI, or Xamarin. All of which have designers in Visual Studio that empower you to manipulate and preview your app with rich tools to make it simple to build complex layouts.

Keyboard and mouse shortcuts

Visualization and modeling

Working with XAML designer

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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.

Profiling tools in Visual Studio

Measure app performance

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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.

Accessing data in Visual Studio

Compatible database systems

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Code in the cloud

The fastest out-of-the-box Visual Studio experience yet!

Code from anywhere on any device with Visual Studio on Microsoft Dev Box. New Visual Studio optimizations ensure the best performance even for the biggest and most demanding projects.

Learn more

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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.

Extensions and integrations

Stay comfortable and productive with our most popular add-ons

Write your own extensions

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GitHub Copilot

Installs

GitHub Copilot is included in the latest release of Visual Studio. Download this extension if you are on Visual Studio 2022 17.8 / 17.9

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GitHub

Installs

A Visual Studio Extension that brings the GitHub Flow into Visual Studio.

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Power tools

Installs

Installs the individual extensions of Productivity Power Tools 2022.

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Visual Studio Theme Pack

Installs

Collection of popular themes, now available for Visual Studio.

Visual Studio
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Visual Studio Community 2022

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

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Visual Studio Professional 2022

Professional developer tools, services, and subscription benefits for small teams

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Visual Studio Enterprise 2022

End-to-end solution to meet demanding quality and scale needs of teams of all sizes

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