Visual Studio vs. Visual Studio Code: An In-depth Comparison

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Visual Studio mainly supports the Windows operating system and there is a version for macOS users called Visual Studio for Mac. There is no version for devices running Linux operating systems hence they access similar features like Visual Studio's through Mono . Note that Microsoft will soon be terminating VS for Mac by 31st August, 2024.

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Visual Studio has multiple versions and are priced differently based on your development needs. Visual Studio Community Edition is the free version recommended by Microsoft for individual needs. Other versions with more advanced features are paid for through subscriptions. These versions include Visual Studio Professional and Enterprise Edition.

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A free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment.
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Whereas Visual Studio Code is a text editor whose functionality and performance is aided by extensions. Some of the other notable text editors like Visual Studio Code include Atom, Sublime Text, Vim and Notepad++.

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NetBeans IDE 7.0. Develop desktop, mobile and web applications with Java, PHP, C/C++ and more. Runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris. NetBeans IDE is open-source and free.
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Visual Studio is an IDE and code editor which you can use to write, debug, build code and then afterwards publish it. Examples of other softwares in the IDE category like Visual Studio include Intellij IDEA, Eclipse IDE, PyCharm, Code Blocks, and Netbeans.

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