Visual Basic IDEs & Tools
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This page lists the IDEs and editors commonly used for Visual Basic, with a link to each product’s official page. Visual Studio on Windows offers the fullest Visual Basic experience; other editors provide basic editing next to the dotnet command line.
IDEs
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Visual Studio — the Microsoft IDE with the complete Visual Basic experience on Windows, including designers and the debugger.
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JetBrains Rider — a cross-platform .NET IDE with Visual Basic support.
Editors with extensions
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Visual Studio Code — a general-purpose editor that highlights Visual Basic files and works with the
dotnetcommand line.
Discontinued products
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Visual Studio for Mac — retired by Microsoft; see What happened to Visual Studio for Mac for the details and alternatives.