# Visual Studio

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/visual-studio/  
**Website:** https://visualstudio.microsoft.com  
**APIs profiled:** 2

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.

## Kin Score — 11.7 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 11.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 68.5 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 10.5 |
| Access Clarity | 10.5 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## APIs (2)

- **Visual Studio Live Share API** — 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...
- **Visual Studio Marketplace API** — REST API for querying and retrieving Visual Studio and VS Code extensions, publishers, versions, and assets from the Visual Studio Marketplace.

## Security (2)

- **Visual Studio Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **Visual Studio Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Tags

IDE, Developer Tools, Microsoft, Code Collaboration, Marketplace, Extensions

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/visual-studio/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.