Microsoft Visual Studio Professional  provides powerful features to quickly understand your code. CodeLens helps you stay focused on your work by showing code references, changes to your code, displaying who last modified a method, or discovering whether tests are passing — all from right where you are in your code.

With Visual Studio , you’ll always get the best-in-class tools and services available for any developer, any app, and any platform. Whether you’re using Visual Studio for the first time or you’ve been using it for years, there’s a lot to like in our newest version!

Performance improvements:
Visual Studio  is faster, more approachable, more lightweight, and is designed for both learners and those building industrial scale solutions.

Visual Studio  is 64-bit:

Visual Studio  on Windows is now a 64-bit application. This means you can open, edit, run, and debug even the biggest and most complex solutions without running out of memory. To learn more, see both the Visual Studio  vision and Visual Studio  17.0 Preview blog posts.

Find in Files is faster:
In Visual Studio, we focused on improving the performance of several key features. For example, Find in Files is now as much as 3x faster when searching large solutions such as Orchard Core.

Build modern apps with Microsoft Visual Studio Professional:

Visual Studio makes it quick and easy to build modern, cloud-based applications with Azure. As well, our new version also has full support for .NET 6 and its unified framework for web, client, and mobile apps for both Windows and Mac developers. And, Visual Studio  includes robust support for the C++ workload with new productivity features, C++20 tooling, and IntelliSense.