Microsoft Visual Studio

aid: microsoft-visual-studio
name: Microsoft Visual Studio
x-parent: microsoft
description: Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for building applications. It provides
  APIs for extending the IDE functionality, publishing extensions to the marketplace, and building VS Code extensions.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/microsoft-visual-studio.png
tags:
- Developer Tools
- Extensions
- IDE
- Microsoft
- VS Code
url: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/
created: '2024-01-01'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: microsoft-visual-studio:extensibility-api
  name: Visual Studio Extensibility API
  tags:
  - Developer Tools
  - Extensions
  - IDE
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/extensibility/
  properties:
  - url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/extensibility/
    type: Documentation
  description: The Visual Studio Extensibility API enables developers to create extensions that customize and extend Visual
    Studio IDE functionality. Extensions can add custom tool windows, commands, code analyzers, project templates, debugger
    visualizers, and language services using the VSIX packaging format and MEF composition model.
- aid: microsoft-visual-studio:marketplace-api
  name: Visual Studio Marketplace API
  tags:
  - Distribution
  - Extensions
  - Marketplace
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  baseURL: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/_apis/
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/extend/develop/data-storage
  properties:
  - url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/extend/develop/data-storage
    type: Documentation
  description: The Visual Studio Marketplace API provides access to the extension marketplace for Visual Studio, VS Code,
    and Azure DevOps. Developers can search extensions, retrieve metadata, manage publisher profiles, and publish extensions
    programmatically through REST endpoints.
- aid: microsoft-visual-studio:vscode-extension-api
  name: VS Code Extension API
  tags:
  - Editor
  - Extensions
  - VS Code
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://code.visualstudio.com/api
  properties:
  - url: https://code.visualstudio.com/api
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://code.visualstudio.com/api/get-started/your-first-extension
    type: GettingStarted
  description: The VS Code Extension API enables developers to build extensions for Visual Studio Code. It provides APIs for
    language support, debugging, source control, terminal integration, webviews, custom editors, notebooks, and testing. Extensions
    can contribute commands, menus, settings, and keybindings to the editor experience.
- aid: visual-studio:live-share-api
  name: Visual Studio Live Share API
  description: Extension-facing API (via the vsls npm module) that allows other VS Code and Visual Studio extensions to start,
    join, and end Live Share collaborative sessions and expose shared RPC services to guests.
  humanURL: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/live-share
  baseURL: https://www.npmjs.com/package/vsls
  tags:
  - Code Collaboration
  - Pair Programming
  - Extensions
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/liveshare/
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/vsls
  - type: Marketplace
    url: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MS-vsliveshare.vsliveshare
common:
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/microsoft-visual-studio-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Pricing
  url: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/pricing
- type: Download
  url: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads
- type: Marketplace
  url: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com
- type: Blog
  url: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/feed/
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/microsoft-visual-studio-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/microsoft-visual-studio
- type: Portal
  url: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/
- type: Website
  url: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement
- type: Support
  url: https://support.microsoft.com/
- name: Agent Skills
  url: https://github.com/microsoft/skills-for-copilot-studio
  type: AgentSkills
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- url: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/feed/
  type: Blog