Visual Studio Community for Ubuntu(Linux)

Question

_{Monday, August 31, 2015 4:32 PM}

Hi Microsoft Team,

I am a newbie developer planning to develop for Windows phone. But I am using Ubuntu in my primary pc. Will Visual Studio Community be released for Ubuntu in the future?

All replies (4)

_{Monday, August 31, 2015 6:11 PM ✅Answered | 2 votes}

Visual Studio is a Windows application so you cannot install it on Ubuntu and there is no plan to release it for Ubuntu in near future. But there is a new product called "Visual Studio Code" which is supported on Linux:

https://code.visualstudio.com/#alt-downloads

You can try install it and test if it meet your requirement.

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_{Monday, August 31, 2015 7:45 PM}

Hi Microsoft Team,

I am a newbie developer planning to develop for Windows phone. But I am using Ubuntu in my primary pc. Will Visual Studio Community be released for Ubuntu in the future?

To add to the earlier response, there is little point in installing VS on Linux since the applications generated by VS since VS cannot generate executables that run directly on Linux

_{Wednesday, November 25, 2015 7:19 PM}

Nevertheless, you can try Mono. It works OK executing form based programs on Linux, even if the executables are build with VS.

_{Wednesday, March 21, 2018 8:12 PM}

i realise you posted this 3 years ago but if your still looking to run visual studio on linux research an application called wine