Microsoft Visual Studio

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.

Microsoft Visual Studio publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Developer Tools, Extensions, IDE, Microsoft, and VS Code.

Microsoft Visual Studio’s developer surface includes developer portal, documentation, support, and 7 more developer resources.

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21.4/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 7/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0

AccessFreemium

3 APIs 31 Agent Skills

Developer Tools Extensions IDE Microsoft VS Code

Kin Score

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scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0

Composite quality — 21.4/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 6.2 / 20

Access Clarity 7.4 / 20

Operational Transparency 1.4 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.5 / 10

Agent readiness — 7/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 3

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Agent Skills 24

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Microsoft Visual Studio Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgentSkills

AgentSkills

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: microsoft-visual-studio
name: Microsoft Visual Studio
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
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://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/microsoft-visual-studio/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
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.
common:
- 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

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