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. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. 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.

    8 Embeetle IDE alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • 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

    Application type

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  6. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. 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.

    154 MaxBlox alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  8. 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

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. IWBasic is a 32-bit BASIC compiler from Ionic Wind Software featuring an integrated development environment with syntax similar to the BASIC programming language. Creates small and fast programs that support all Windows versions.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. ZAM 3D icon
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    ZAM 3D XAML 3D WPF 3ds to XAML and dxf to XAML converter GUI Windows Vista, WinF tool for Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. Pao icon
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    Pao (short for "program as objects") is firstly an idea that a computer program is reprensented totally as objects, as opposed to textual code in the traditional way. This objectization covers all the aspacts of a program, including the internal respresentation...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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