Microsoft Visual Studio Community

Visual Studio Community is a full-featured, extendable, and free IDE for developing modern Android, iOS, and Windows applications, as well as online applications and cloud services. Visual Studio Community for Windows PC is a fully featured and extensible IDE that serves as an upgraded alternative to Visual Studio Express. 

A new workload-based installer optimizes your installation, ensuring that you have all you need and nothing you don't. Code with confidence in your language, quickly identify and resolve code errors, and refactor with ease. Debug to quickly identify and resolve bugs. Profiling tools can help you identify and diagnose performance issues. Downloadable tools for Apache Cordova, Xamarin, and Unity allow you to code, debug, test, share, and reuse across multiple platforms. ASP.NET, Node.js, Python, and JavaScript are all web development languages. Combine with powerful web frameworks like AngularJS, jQuery, Bootstrap, Django, and Backbone.js. 

Manage your source code with Git repositories hosted by any service, including GitHub. Alternatively, utilize the software Team Services to manage code, bugs, and work items across the entire project. When you join the Visual Studio Community, you gain access to a wide range of free developer tools, on-demand Xamarin University classes, Pluralsight training, Azure credits, and other benefits as part of VisualStudio Dev Essentials. 

Features & Highlights 

Create a customized installer and develop for several platforms, including WPF, WinForms, ASP.NET, Universal Windows Platform, Win32, Android, and iOS, using a single IDE. 

Get started coding faster. 
With shorter project load times and performance enhancements, you can go back to work with your favorite languages like C/C++, C#, Visual Basic, F#, Python, and more. 

Increased productivity. 
Features such as XAML Edit & Continue, improved IntelliSense, increased code refactoring, live code analysis, and the ability to open any folder without requiring projects or solutions simplify code editing, navigation, and debugging. 

Modern web development tools include IntelliSense completions, debugging, and performance profiling for JavaScript, ASP.NET, Python, and other programming languages. 

Build for Windows. 
Develop apps and games for Windows with strong new platform features such as UI analysis and debugging, Windows 10 mobile emulators, and DirectX graphics tools. 

Vibrant ecosystem 
Access to thousands of extensions not available in Express, including GitHub Extension, Resharper, and Visual Assist. There's also Web Essentials. 

Note that it cannot be utilized in a corporate environment. There is limited functionality in the demo version.