Visual Studio

aid: visual-studio
name: Visual Studio
description: Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for building applications across .NET,
  C++, web, mobile, cloud, and game platforms on Windows and macOS. While the Visual Studio IDE itself is not exposed as a
  SaaS REST API, Microsoft provides developer-facing APIs for Live Share real-time collaboration (consumed via the vsls extension
  SDK) and the Visual Studio Marketplace REST API for discovering and distributing extensions, themes, and tools.
type: Index
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- IDE
- Developer Tools
- Microsoft
- Code Collaboration
- Marketplace
- Extensions
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/visual-studio/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-11'
modified: '2026-05-11'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- 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
- aid: visual-studio:marketplace-api
  name: Visual Studio Marketplace API
  description: REST API for querying and retrieving Visual Studio and VS Code extensions, publishers, versions, and assets
    from the Visual Studio Marketplace.
  humanURL: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com
  baseURL: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/_apis/public/gallery
  tags:
  - Marketplace
  - Extensions
  - Discovery
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/extend/publish/overview
common:
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/microsoft
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/microsoft-visual-studio
- type: Website
  url: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio
- type: Pricing
  url: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/pricing
- type: Download
  url: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads
- type: Marketplace
  url: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com