Best Development Frameworks for Visual Studio

Compare the Top Development Frameworks that integrate with Visual Studio as of October 2025

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This a list of Development Frameworks that integrate 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.

What are Development Frameworks for Visual Studio?

Development frameworks are code libraries and development tools that streamline the development process for developers that build applications. Development frameworks simplify the process of programming in different languages. There are a variety of different types of development frameworks including web development frameworks, mobile app development frameworks, frontend and backend frameworks, and more. Compare and read user reviews of the best Development Frameworks for Visual Studio currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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.NET MAUI

Microsoft

.NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) is a framework for building modern, multi-platform, natively compiled iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows apps using C# and XAML in a single codebase. .NET MAUI uses the latest, modern technologies for building native apps on Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows abstracting them into one common framework built on .NET 6. Native apps look and feel like the operating system on which they belong by default and layouts are fully adapted to each device automatically with no additional code. Platform APIs are available directly from C# to access over 60 platform features from a single cross-platform API including access to things like isolated storage, sensors, geolocation, camera, and a whole lot more with no compromises.

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Starting Price: Free

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ASP.NET Core

Microsoft

Millions of developers use or have used ASP.NET 4.x to create web apps. ASP.NET Core is a redesign of ASP.NET 4.x, including architectural changes that result in a leaner, more modular framework. ASP.NET Core 3.x and later can only target .NET Core. Generally, ASP.NET Core is composed of .NET Standard libraries. Libraries written with .NET Standard 2.0 run on any .NET platform that implements .NET Standard 2.0. There are several advantages to targeting .NET Core, and these advantages increase with each release. Tag Helpers enable server-side code to participate in creating and rendering HTML elements in Razor files. Built-in support for multiple data formats and content negotiation lets your web APIs reach a broad range of clients, including browsers and mobile devices.

Starting Price: Free

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ASP.NET

Microsoft

Blazor is a feature of ASP.NET for building interactive web UIs using C# instead of JavaScript. Blazor gives you real .NET running in the browser on WebAssembly. .NET is a developer platform made up of tools, programming languages, and libraries for building many different types of applications. ASP.NET supports industry standard authentication protocols. Built-in features help protect your apps against cross-site scripting (XSS) and cross-site request forgery (CSRF). ASP.NET provides a built-in user database with support for multi-factor authentication and external authentication with Google, Twitter, and more.

Starting Price: Free

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4

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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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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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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.NET

Microsoft

Free. Cross-platform. Open source. A developer platform for building all your apps. Build native apps for Android, iOS, macOS and Windows from a single codebase. You can write your .NET apps in C#, F#, or Visual Basic. Your skills, code, and favorite libraries apply anywhere you use .NET. You can learn more about what .NET can do with these free videos. .NET is open source and we are very thankful for the many contributions it receives from the community.

Starting Price: Free

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Wisej.NET

Ice Tea Group

Wisej.NET provides a platform and set of tools designed to ease the burden of developing, testing, deploying, and maintaining complex AI-powered business software. It bridges the gap between traditional WinForms-style desktop applications and the web by empowering developers to leverage their existing .NET and C# or VB.NET) skills. Developers are able to use the tools they are familiar with, like a pixel-perfect design surface and drag-and-drop controls with the languages they are comfortable with (C# or VB.NET) to build real-time web applications without having to learn HTML, CSS, or JavaScript. They can stay in their favorite IDE like Visual Studio to take advantage of features like IntelliSense, integrated debugging, design surfaces and source control integration. Front-end developers can leverage their knowledge of web technologies to augment applications and seamlessly integrate third-party packages like HTML5 charting libraries and ASP.NET controls.

Starting Price: $990

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