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What is Visual Studio?

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Visual Studio is Microsoft's full featured integrated development environment, or IDE, used to write, debug, test, and deploy applications, particularly those built with dot NET and C#. It provides features like intelligent code completion, an integrated debugger, project and solution management, built in source control support, and various designers for building user interfaces, making it one of the most widely used tools for dot NET development.
// Visual Studio provides IntelliSense as you type
public class Customer {
    public string Name { get; set; } // suggestions appear automatically
}
Real-world example A development team uses Visual Studio's integrated debugger to step through their application line by line, quickly identifying the exact cause of a bug that would have been much harder to find using only text editors and manual console output.

Common follow-ups: What is the difference between Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code?;Is Visual Studio free to use?