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This a list of Application Development software that integrates with Visual Studio. Use the filters on the left to add additional filters for products that have integrations with Visual Studio. View the products that work with Visual Studio in the table below.
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Windows Forms
Microsoft
Welcome to the Desktop Guide for Windows Forms, a UI framework that creates rich desktop client apps for Windows. The Windows Forms development platform supports a broad set of app development features, including controls, graphics, data binding, and user input. Windows Forms features a drag-and-drop visual designer in Visual Studio to easily create Windows Forms apps. Windows Forms is a UI framework for building Windows desktop apps. It provides one of the most productive ways to create desktop apps based on the visual designer provided in Visual Studio. Functionality such as drag-and-drop placement of visual controls makes it easy to build desktop apps. With Windows Forms, you develop graphically rich apps that are easy to deploy, update, and work while offline or while connected to the internet. Windows Forms apps can access the local hardware and file system of the computer where the app is running.Starting Price: Free -
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Liquid Studio
Liquid Technologies
Liquid Studio provides an advanced toolkit for XML and JSON development along with Web Service Testing and Data Mapping and Data Transformation tools. The Development Environment contains a complete set of tools for designing XML and JSON data structures and schemas. These tools provide editing, validating and advanced transformation capabilities. For novice or expert, the intuitive interface and comprehensive features will help you save time and money delivering a successful project. Visualize and edit an abstracted view of your XML schema(XSD) using an intuitive user interface, and validate your XSD against the W3C standards.Includes split graphical and text views, intellisense, syntax highlighting, drag and drop, copy and paste, and multi-step undo/redo. Visualize and edit an abstracted view of your JSON schema using an intuitive user interface, and validate your JSON Schema against the IETF standards.Starting Price: $149 one-time payment -
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SpecFlow
SpecFlow
SpecFlow makes test automation easier by turning it into a team effort and allowing every role to better use their skills. Don’t waste your time searching for the correct definition across your binding classes, just right-click and jump to the relevant code. Hooks (event bindings) can be used to perform additional automation logic at specific times, such as any setup required prior to executing a scenario. SpecFlow supports a dependency injection framework that is able to instantiate and inject context for scenarios. This allows you to group the shared state in context classes, and inject them into every binding class that needs access to that shared state.Starting Price: Free -
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PDFKit.NET 5.0
TallComponents
Create and manipulate PDF documents. Split, append, stamp, encrypt, extract, fill, and more. PDFKit.NET is a 100% managed (verifiable) .NET class library for creating and manipulating PDF documents. It consists of just a single assembly that can be xcopy-deployed. It has no dependencies other than the .NET framework. Central to PDFKit.NET is a consistent and highly intuitive object model consisting of classes like document, page collection, page, canvas, shape, bookmark, annotation, field, etc. The focus of the development team is always to ease the task of integrating our class library into a larger application. Fill text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, etc., and save the form either editable or flattened with the PDFKit.NET 5.0. With PDFKit.NET 5.0 you can populate and consume dynamic XFA documents with the new XFA processor API. Extract all graphics on a page as a collection of shapes with PDFKit 5.0. Shapes can be text, images, and curves.Starting Price: $990 per year -
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Avalonia UI
Avalonia UI
Avalonia UI enables developers to create multi-platform apps with .NET. Write once, and run everywhere. Save time and focus on your product. Considered a spiritual successor to WPF, Avalonia UI provides a familiar developer experience, allowing you to leverage years of pre-existing knowledge and investments. rusted by JetBrains as the best framework for modernizing their WPF-based tools, used by >170,000 companies, including 431 on the Fortune 500 list. Our developer community has grown enormously as Avalonia UI has grown in popularity. Join us and be welcomed into our supportive and vibrant community.Starting Price: Free -
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NCover
NCover
NCover Desktop is a Windows application that helps you collect code coverage statistics for .NET applications and services. After coverage is collected, Desktop displays charts and coverage metrics in a browser-based GUI that allows you to drill all the way down to your individual lines of source code. Desktop also allows you the option to install a Visual Studio extension called Bolt. Bolt offers built-in code coverage that displays unit test results, timings, branch visualization and source code highlighting right in the Visual Studio IDE. NCover Desktop is a major leap forward in the ease and flexibility of code coverage tools. Code coverage, gathered while testing your .NET code, shows the NCover user what code was exercised during the test and gives a specific measurement of unit test coverage. By tracking these statistics over time, you gain a concrete measurement of code quality during the development cycle.Starting Price: Free -
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dotPeek
JetBrains
As soon as you've decompiled an assembly, you can save it as a Visual Studio project (.csproj). This can potentially save a lot of time if you need to restore lost source code from a legacy assembly. dotPeek can identify local source code based on PDB files, or fetch source code from source servers such as Microsoft Reference Source Center or SymbolSource. dotPeek can also perform as a symbol server and supply Visual Studio debugger with the information required to debug assembly code. dotPeek inherits a lot of features from ReSharper. These include contextual and context-insensitive navigation, usage search, as well as different code structure and hierarchy views. Use Find Usages to search for all usages of a symbol, be it a method, property, local variable or a different entity. The Find Results tool window lets you group usages, navigate between them, and open them in the code view area.Starting Price: Free -
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OpenCppCoverage
OpenCppCoverage
OpenCppCoverage is an open-source code coverage tool for C++ under Windows. The main usage is for unit testing coverage, but you can also use it to know the executed lines in a program for debugging purposes. Support compiler with a program database file (.pdb). Just run your program with OpenCppCoverage, no need to recompile your application. Exclude a line based on a regular expression. Coverage aggregation, to run several code coverages and merge them into a single report. Requires Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 or higher for all editions including the Express edition. It should also work with the previous version of Visual Studio. You can run the tests with the Test Explorer window.Starting Price: Free -
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Mono
Mono
Cross-platform, open source .NET framework. Sponsored by Microsoft, Mono is an open-source implementation of Microsoft's .NET Framework as part of the .NET Foundation and based on the ECMA standards for C# and the common language runtime. A growing family of solutions and an active and enthusiastic contributing community is helping position Mono to become the leading choice for the development of cross-platform applications. The latest Mono release is waiting for you. We cover everything you need to know, from configuring Mono to how the internals are implemented. Our documentation is open source too, so you can help us improve it. As an open-source project, we love getting contributions from the community. File a bug report, add new code or chat with the developers. Mono is a software platform designed to allow developers to easily create cross-platform applications.Starting Price: Free -
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Sciter
Sciter
Sciter brings a stack of web technologies to desktop UI development. Web designers, and developers, can reuse their experience and expertise in creating modern-looking desktop applications. Various GUI frameworks offer different UI declaration and styling languages, such as QML and XAML (Microsoft WPF). On the contrary, Sciter allows the use of time-proven, robust, and flexible HTML and CSS for GUI definition and GPU-accelerated rendering. In almost 10 years, the Sciter UI engine has become the secret weapon of success for some of the most prominent antivirus products on the market, Norton Antivirus and Internet Security, Comodo Internet Security, ESET Antivirus, BitDefender Antivirus, and others. The use of HTML/CSS has allowed their UI to stay in touch with modern GUI trends throughout all these years and will continue to well into the future. Sciter Engine is a single, compact DLL of 5+ Mb in size.Starting Price: $310 one-time payment -
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Peach Fuzzer
Peach Tech
Peach is a SmartFuzzer that is capable of performing both generation and mutation-based fuzzing. Peach requires the creation of Peach Pit files that define the structure, type information, and relationships in the data to be fuzzed. It additionally allows for the configuration of a fuzzing run including selecting a data transport (publisher), logging interface, etc. Peach has been under active development since 2004 and is in its third major version. Fuzzing continues to be the fastest way to find security issues and test for bugs. Effective hardware fuzzing with Peach will introduce students to the fundamentals of device fuzzing. Peach was designed to fuzz any type of data consumer from servers to embedded devices. Researchers, corporations, and governments already use Peach to find vulnerabilities in hardware. This course will focus on using Peach to target embedded devices and collect information from the device in the event of a crash.Starting Price: Free -
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Starcounter
Starcounter
Our ACID in-memory technology and application server enable you to build lightning-fast enterprise software. Without custom tooling or new syntax. Starcounter applications let you achieve 50 to 1000 times better performance without adding complexity. Applications are written in regular C#, LINQ, and SQL. Even the ACID transactions are written in regular C# code. Full Visual Studio support including IntelliSense, debugger, and performance profiler. All the things you like, minus the headache. Write regular C# syntax with MVVM pattern to leverage ACID in-memory technology and thin client UI for extreme performance. Starcounter technology adds business value from day one. We leverage technology that’s already developed and in production, processing millions of business transactions for high-demand customers. Starcounter combines ACID in-memory database and application server into a single platform unmatched in performance, simplicity, and price.Starting Price: Free -
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MonoGame
MonoGame
MonoGame is a free and open-source framework that allows developers to create cross-platform games using C# and other .NET languages. It supports multiple platforms, including Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. MonoGame provides a comprehensive set of features, such as 2D and 3D rendering, sound playback, input handling, and content management, enabling the development of high-quality games across various genres. The framework is a re-implementation of Microsoft's XNA 4 API, ensuring familiarity for developers with XNA experience. Notable games developed with MonoGame include "Streets of Rage 4," "Carrion," "Celeste," and "Stardew Valley." MonoGame is actively maintained by the MonoGame Foundation and its community, with ongoing updates and support.Starting Price: Free -
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Latta
Latta
Latta AI is an innovative platform designed to streamline the software development process by automating the detection and resolution of bugs. By recording user sessions and applying AI-driven fixes, Latta AI enables developers, project managers, and testers to focus more on feature development, thereby boosting productivity and accelerating release cycles. The platform integrates seamlessly with popular version control systems like GitHub and GitLab and maintains strict security protocols to ensure code privacy and protection. Additionally, Latta AI offers a plugin for JetBrains IDEs, allowing developers to access its bug-fixing tools directly within their development environment. This integration facilitates quick identification and resolution of issues without the need to leave the IDE. Overall, Latta AI aims to reduce the time developers spend on debugging by up to 40%, enhancing efficiency and allowing teams to focus on innovation.Starting Price: $0.05 per fix -
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VisualSVN
VisualSVN Software Ltd.
VisualSVN Server is an enterprise-ready Subversion (SVN) server solution designed to make it easy to install, configure, and manage a full-featured version control server on Microsoft Windows systems, providing universal versioned storage with out-of-the-box operation and support for standard Subversion clients. It installs as a single package that offers a powerful management console implemented as a standard MMC snap-in for repository, user, and permission administration, and includes command-line tools and PowerShell scripting for automation. VisualSVN Server features a modern HTML5 web interface for browsing repositories, supports Active Directory single sign-on with secure authentication protocols, and protects against password guessing attacks. It enables advanced capabilities such as backup and restore with scheduled verification, access and operational logging, remote server administration across a network, and repository management delegation.Starting Price: $59 per license -
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AttackFlow
AttackFlow
Enterprise Edition is a web application with repository integrations and many more enterprise features contributing to application security. Extensions are IDE extensions with real-time document scan on development. AttackFlow provides no-need to compile, just-in-time, flow-sensitive and precise static source code scanning solutions which find security vulnerabilities in your code. Attackflow Enterprise Edition is a web application that is located as on-premise in companies to secure their script-sized applications to enterprise-level applications. Enterprise Edition makes Static Application Security Testing (SAST) more adoptable with DEVOPS with its various tools like CLI and Devops/Jenkins extensions. It secures applications at every DEVOPS stage. A key requirement in transitioning to a successful DevOps posture is security. In this growing DEVOPS world Attackflow creates value for much more secure applications. -
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TestComplete
SmartBear
Ensure the quality of your application without sacrificing speed or agility with an easy-to-use, GUI test automation tool. Our AI-powered object recognition engine and script or scriptless flexibility is unmatched, letting you test every desktop, web, and mobile application with ease. TestComplete comes with an intelligent object repository and support for over 500 controls, so you can ensure your GUI tests are scalable, robust, and easy to maintain. More automated quality means more overall quality. Automate UI testing across a wide range of desktop applications, including .Net, Java, WPF and Windows 10. Create reusable tests for all web applications including modern JavaScript frameworks like React and Angular on 2050+ browser and platform configurations. Create and automate functional UI tests on physical or virtual iOS and Android devices. No need to jailbreak your phone.Starting Price: $4,836 -
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Spread.NET
GrapeCity
Explore the possibilities of your .NET enterprise apps with these dependency-free .NET spreadsheet components. .NET spreadsheet components are advanced software components that allow professional developers to add complete Excel-like functionality to their desktop applications. The .NET spreadsheet control includes support for Excel import/export, full cell customization, an extensive calculation engine with over 450 functions and more, all with zero dependencies on Excel. Leverage the extensive .NET spreadsheet API and powerful calculation engine to create analysis, budgeting, dashboard, data collection and management, scientific, and financial applications. Every platform of Spread.NET ensures maximum performance and speed for your enterprise apps, and its modular structure means you only need to add what you use to your .NET spreadsheet apps.Starting Price: $1499.00/year/user -
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Wing Python IDE
Wingware
Wing Python IDE was designed from the ground up for Python, to bring you a more productive development experience. Type less and let Wing worry about the details. Get immediate feedback by writing your Python code interactively in the live runtime. Easily navigate code and documentation. Avoid common errors and find problems early with assistance from Wing's deep Python code analysis. Keep code clean with smart refactoring and code quality inspection. Debug any Python code. Inspect debug data and try out bug fixes interactively without restarting your app. Work locally or on a remote host, VM, or container. Wingware's 21 years of Python IDE experience bring you a more Pythonic development environment. Wing was designed from the ground up for Python, written in Python, and is extensible with Python. So you can be more productive. -
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SmartBear Collaborator
SmartBear
Customize and Scale Your Peer Review Process for Code and Documents With Collaborator. Collaborator is the premier peer code & document review tool for development teams that take software quality seriously. Comprehensive Review Capabilities – Review source code, design docs, requirements, user stories, test plans, and documentation in one tool. Proof of Review – Ensure proof with electronic signatures & detailed reports to meet regulatory compliance standards. Support for 11 SCMs, including Git, SVN, TFS, Perforce, CVS, ClearCase, RTC, & more. Integrations with GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Jira, Eclipse, Visual Studio, & more. Real-Time Updates. Threaded chat shows conversations as well as highlights changes & defects for visibility during each code review. Each team and project has unique requirements. Why would the same type of review work for everything? With custom review templates and checklists in Collaborator, it is easy to build peer review frameworks. -
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Visual Studio App Center
Microsoft
Continuously build, test, release, and monitor apps for every platform. Connect to GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab, or Azure DevOps and build your app in the cloud on every commit. Automatically run unit tests, release to testers and stores, or test your UI on real devices. Commit to a feature branch to build and test. Commit to a beta branch to distribute to testers. Commit to master to submit to the App Store. Customize to fit your team’s workflow. Does your app still work after your latest change? How does it perform on an LG G2? Find out by testing your app in a hosted device lab with 1000s of real iOS and Android devices. You’ll receive test results, full-resolution screenshots of every step, along with performance metrics. Whether you prefer private distribution, public open betas, Microsoft Intune, TestFlight, Google Play, or the App Store, App Center makes releasing your app a delight.Starting Price: $40 per month -
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OpenText Static Application Security Testing (SAST) identifies and remediates security vulnerabilities in source code early in the software development lifecycle. It supports extensive language coverage and integrates seamlessly with popular CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Jira, and Visual Studio. The platform uses advanced static code analysis and AI-driven insights to prioritize risks and reduce false positives, enabling developers to focus on fixing critical vulnerabilities efficiently. With its customizable code analysis and rule sets, it helps reduce development time by catching issues early. OpenText SAST complies with industry standards like OWASP and offers flexible deployment options including SaaS, private cloud, and on-premises. This comprehensive approach enhances application security without sacrificing development speed or accuracy.
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StackBlitz WebContainers
StackBlitz
StackBlitz WebContainers bring a full Node.js runtime directly into the browser, enabling instant, secure, and interactive development environments inside any web app. Developers can run native npm, pnpm, and yarn at speeds up to 10× faster than local, without needing external servers. The API lets you boot containers, mount files, install dependencies, and run dev servers entirely client-side. WebContainers support major frameworks, Wasm workloads, and modern browsers, making them ideal for tutorials, sandboxes, docs, and AI-driven developer tools. With isolated, disposable environments, teams can offer a seamless coding experience that feels native and eliminates backend overhead. The result is a powerful platform that transforms web apps into full-featured IDEs. -
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CodeStream
New Relic
CodeStream is an open-source extension for VS Code, Visual Studio, and JetBrains. CodeStream supercharges development workflows by putting collaboration tools in your IDE. It supports pull requests from GitHub, BitBucket and GitLab, issue management from Jira, Trello, Asana and 9 others, and provides code discussion that ties it all together, integrated with Slack, MS Teams, email, and in-editor notifications. Understand, review, and write code faster with CodeStream. Get answers as easy as “select the code, type your question." Save institutional knowledge where it belongs: with your source code. Integrates with Slack, Microsoft Teams, Email and offers in-editor notifications. Comment on code is as simple as: select the code, type your question. Code authors are automatically at-mentioned based on git blame info. Conversation threads are tied to code locations across branches and as new code merges in.Starting Price: $8.33 per user per month -
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Gemini Testing
Countersoft
Testing lies at the heart of software development and Gemini gives you testing for the masses – easy to set up, easy to execute, easy to track and report. Gemini Testing is fully integrated into our Issue Tracking and Bug Tracking functionality so you can eliminate the frustration that comes from not knowing the status of an item. Utilize Gemini Testing and increase the speed, efficiency and collaboration of your development team at a stroke. Customer reported problems will arise. Gemini brings complete test plan management so that Testers can associate their work with development activity and customer incidents. Break down complex changes into smaller manageable items with no project limits. Assign items to multiple team members whilst the system controls workflow. Reporting is essential when you're accountable to a higher power. Gemini makes it easy to get the reports you need, no limited report builders or useless pre-canned reports, just your stuff delivered in Excel. -
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dotCover
JetBrains
dotCover is a .NET unit testing and code coverage tool that works right in Visual Studio and in JetBrains Rider, helps you know to what extent your code is covered with unit tests, provides great ways to visualize code coverage, and is Continuous Integration ready. dotCover calculates and reports statement-level code coverage in applications targeting .NET Framework, .NET Core, Mono for Unity, etc. dotCover is a plug-in to Visual Studio and JetBrains Rider, giving you the advantage of analyzing and visualizing code coverage without leaving the code editor. This includes running unit tests and analyzing coverage results right in the IDEs, as well as support for different color themes, new icons and menus. dotCover comes bundled with a unit test runner that it shares with another JetBrains tool for .NET developers, ReSharper. dotCover supports continuous testing, a modern unit testing workflow whereby dotCover figures out on-the-fly which unit tests are affected by your code changes.Starting Price: $399 per user per year -
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Azure DevTest Labs
Microsoft
Quickly provision development and test environments. Minimize waste with quotas and policies. Set automated shutdowns to minimize costs. Build Windows and Linux environments. Provide self-service cloud environments without the worry. Lab policies and thresholds help to effortlessly minimize costs. Set up your virtual machine with your dev tools and your latest build in a few clicks, and share reusable templates across your team. Create environments directly from your continuous integration (CI) tools using our plug-ins, REST API, or Visual Studio Team Services extension. Set lab policies to automatically shut down and start up virtual machines. Set caps on your lab, such as the number of virtual machines per user and per lab. Use the lab cost trend to estimate your spending and set a threshold. Use our REST API to provision dev-test environments directly from your continuous integration (CI) tools. Quickly deploy from your release pipeline using our Team Services tasks extension. -
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Qase
Qase
Test management system for Dev and QA teams that helps to boost software testing efforts. Test suites can help you to organize all your test cases into logical groups. Сomprehensive features of test cases allow you to define test case severity, priority; describe pre-conditions, post-conditions, and steps to reproduce test case. You can compose test plans and then run tests. A smart wizard will guide you through the test plan and will help to check all cases at once. Time tracker will show detailed information about time spent for each case. Also, you can easily share a test report with detailed information about each test case in a run to your manager or customer in a few clicks. Invite your teammates to join and use all power of test case management tools together, run tests, write test documentation, compose test plans. Role-based access control will help you to set up permissions for different groups of users.Starting Price: $20 per month -
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Help+Manual
Help+Manual
Help+Manual is a full featured documentation tool that is as easy to use as a word processor, yet much more powerful, it gives you the power of a true WYSIWYG XML editor and puts all the tools that you need at your fingertips. This is combined with powerful features for generating and editing help and documentation files, including full support for multimedia and complex modular projects. Whether you publish documentation for desktop or mobile, iOS or Android, Windows help or PDF user manuals, it is always a breeze with Help+Manual! But single source is much more than just outputting the same information to different formats. Mark content with conditional tags to create different outputs for each publishing channel, no post-processing is required. Help+Manual handles the complexities of documentation generation for you. Power users, however, can get under the hood and manipulate topic and layout templates and more. Help+Manual gives you the best of both worlds.Starting Price: €498 one-time payment -
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HelpXplain
Help+Manual
In Technical Documentation, we often need to explain multi-steps procedures. We use bullet lists, we add screenshots and text. The more we add, the more likely it is that our readers will lose track. An Xplain, as we call it, is a series of slides freely arranged on a huge canvas to spark your creativity. HelpXplain is perfect for slideshows embedded into web pages and technical documentation. Create animated step-by-step tutorials and quick instructions in minutes instead of hours. The magic is in the method, HelpXplain animates a series of simple screenshots, each of which can be edited or replaced at any time. HelpXplain can also record multi-page screencasts of programs on your computer screen that run in autoplay mode like a video. Recording and editing them is massively easier and less stressful than trying to create a video! All Xplains are 100% standards-compliant HTML5 and Javascript.Starting Price: €199 one-time payment
