Microsoft Visual Studio Alternatives

Microsoft Visual Studio is described as 'IDE used to create programs, apps, websites, and web services using various frameworks. It supports multiple languages and offers tools for coding, debugging, and design' and is a leading IDE in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Microsoft Visual Studio for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Web-based apps. The best Microsoft Visual Studio alternative is Visual Studio Code, which is free. Other great apps like Microsoft Visual Studio are Eclipse, VSCodium, MonoDevelop and Apache NetBeans.

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  1. "Sally - A Simple C++ IDE" is a GPL multi-compiler C++ IDE for WindowsXP/2000.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
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  2. Easy code icon
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    Easy Code is the visual assembly programming environment made to build 32-bit Windows applications. The Easy Code interface, looking like Visual Basic, allows you to program Windows assembler applications (executable files, dynamic and static libreries, COFF object files...

    71 Easy code alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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  3. EASy68K icon
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    EASy68K is a 68000 Structured Assembly Language IDE. EASy68K allows you to edit, assemble and run 68000 programs on a Windows PC or Wine. No additional hardware is required. EASy68K is an open source project distributed under the GNU general public use license.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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  4. Embeetle is a new IDE for microcontrollers, built from scratch. It provides only the features you need for embedded programming, and makes those features intuitive.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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    This library will allow you to create dialog boxes which looks like C++ Builder's components. More than 80 compatible components. Then you will be able, without a lot of modifications, to transfert projects from this RAD, or to create freely some projects compatible with...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  6. Proofreading app copy shouldn’t mean scanning raw .strings or XML. Review only what matters—the actual text users see. Catch mistakes before they ship.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  7. xtool icon
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    xtool is a cross-platform (Linux/WSL/macOS) tool that replicates Xcode functionality with open standards.

    52 xtool alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
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  8. MASM Builder icon
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    MASM Builder is a free Integrated Development Environment IDE for developing 32-bit Windows programs using the Assembler. MASM Builder contains many useful features which will assist you in creating Windows API based programs.

    67 MASM Builder alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. MaxBlox icon
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    MaxBlox is a complete application development platform. The entire system is web-based and allows the ability to build applications that operate over the web. This is architected as a Platform as a Service (PaaS) system.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  10. XVT icon
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    XVT is a software development environment for building cross-platform GUI applications in C or C++. XVT allows developers to graphically lay out an application's GUI, and provides cross-platform libraries to aid development.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  11. DrPython icon
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    DrPython is a highly customizable text editor geared towards writing programs in Python quickly and easily. It is written in Python using the wxPython toolkit (which makes use of the Scintilla text control internally).

    Cost / License

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  12. XAML Studio, a Microsoft Garage project, helps you rapidly prototype UWP XAML code interactively and in real-time which can be easily copied into Visual Studio afterwards.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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