

Choose between Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Forms, and Win32, to target the Windows desktop with the right technology for your application and your skills. It lets you take full advantage of Windows with XAML designers, a productive IDE, and a variety of programming languages including C#, C and C++, JavaScript, F#, and Visual Basic. It's succeeding Visual Studio 2013 and preceding Visual Studio 2017. Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 is a suite of tools for creating software, from the planning phase through UI design, coding, testing, debugging, analyzing code quality and performance, deploying to customers, and gathering telemetry on usage.
