aid: visual-studio
name: Visual Studio
description: >-
  Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for
  building applications across .NET, C++, web, mobile, cloud, and game
  platforms on Windows and macOS. While the Visual Studio IDE itself is not
  exposed as a SaaS REST API, Microsoft provides developer-facing APIs for
  Live Share real-time collaboration (consumed via the vsls extension SDK) and
  the Visual Studio Marketplace REST API for discovering and distributing
  extensions, themes, and tools.
type: Index
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
  - IDE
  - Developer Tools
  - Microsoft
  - Code Collaboration
  - Marketplace
  - Extensions
url: >-
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/visual-studio/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-11'
modified: '2026-05-11'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: visual-studio:live-share-api
    name: Visual Studio Live Share API
    description: >-
      Extension-facing API (via the vsls npm module) that allows other VS
      Code and Visual Studio extensions to start, join, and end Live Share
      collaborative sessions and expose shared RPC services to guests.
    humanURL: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/live-share
    baseURL: https://www.npmjs.com/package/vsls
    tags:
      - Code Collaboration
      - Pair Programming
      - Extensions
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/liveshare/
      - type: SDK
        url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/vsls
      - type: Marketplace
        url: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MS-vsliveshare.vsliveshare
  - aid: visual-studio:marketplace-api
    name: Visual Studio Marketplace API
    description: >-
      REST API for querying and retrieving Visual Studio and VS Code
      extensions, publishers, versions, and assets from the Visual Studio
      Marketplace.
    humanURL: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com
    baseURL: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/_apis/public/gallery
    tags:
      - Marketplace
      - Extensions
      - Discovery
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/extend/publish/overview

common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/pricing
  - type: Download
    url: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads
  - type: Marketplace
    url: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com