Visual Studio Community is an updated alternative to Visual Studio Express, a part of Visual Studio. It is an integrated development environment (IDE) product by Microsoft for the C#, Visual Basic, F#, C++, HTML, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Python programming languages. It is created to write code, navigate and fix code issues. Visual Studio Community can also debug and diagnose performance issues.

What are the key features of Visual Studio Community?

This new version has a workload-based installer in order to install only the necessary features for your work.
It also has cloud-connected features that allow you to co-edit and co-debug any codebase and share terminals and servers with your colleagues in real-time.
In addition, there are tools for Xamarin and Unity to download to enable code, edit, debug, test and share.
Also, developing web applications is possible with ASP.NET, Node.js, Python, and JavaScript.
Source code is manageable in Git repos hosted by any provider, or by using Azure DevOps.

Is it free?

The Community Edition license is free, as long as it is linked to a free Microsoft account. There are also two paid versions: Visual Studio Professional ($45 per month) and Visual Studio Enterprise ($250 per month).