Page 6 | Compare Business Software for Visual Studio: July 2025 Reviews & Comparison

C++/CLI

Microsoft

In Visual Studio 2022, the default target framework for .NET Core projects is 6.0. For .NET Frameworks projects, the default is 4.7.2. The .NET Framework version selector is on the configure your new project page of the create a new project dialog. C++/CLI itself isn't installed by default when you install a Visual Studio C++ workload. To install the component after Visual Studio is installed, open the Visual Studio Installer by selecting the Windows Start menu and searching for visual studio installer. Choose the modify button next to your installed version of Visual Studio. Select the Individual components tab. Scroll down to the compilers, build tools, and runtimes section, and select C++/CLI support for v143 build tools (Latest). Select modify to download the necessary files and update Visual Studio. By using C++/CLI you can create C++ programs that use .NET classes as well as native C++ types. C++/CLI is intended for use in console applications.

Starting Price: Free

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JSON

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format. It is easy for humans to read and write. It is easy for machines to parse and generate. It is based on a subset of the JavaScript Programming Language Standard ECMA-262 3rd Edition - December 1999. JSON is a text format that is completely language independent but uses conventions that are familiar to programmers of the C-family of languages, including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Perl, Python, and many others. These properties make JSON an ideal data-interchange language. JSON is built on two structures: 1. A collection of name/value pairs. In various languages, this is realized as an object, record, struct, dictionary, hash table, keyed list, or associative array. 2. An ordered list of values. In most languages, this is realized as an array, vector, list, or sequence. These are universal data structures. Virtually all modern programming languages support them in one form or another.

Starting Price: Free

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Project Online

OnePlan

Microsoft continues to innovate, the platform and tools that address the needs of customers needing a project, portfolio, and work management capabilities. Built on the Microsoft Power Platform, this next generation of Project Online offers a robust foundation that allows your teams to be more collaborative and drive successful business outcomes than ever before. Strategy execution management is focused on supporting the dynamic portfolio management needs of business strategists, steering committees, strategy realization offices (SROs), and enterprise portfolio management offices (EPMOs). Product teams must be innovative, agile, and effective at deploying the right resources to the right work at the right time. Knowing when to bring a product to market can mean the difference between a leader and 2nd place. Give NPD the tools they need for competitive advantage. Demand can come from anywhere.

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DotImage

Atalasoft

DotImage supports many formats including TIFF, PDF, DICOM, JPEG2000, JBIG2, Word, Excel, & PowerPoint. You can edit, insert, reorder, remove & rotate pages as well as cleanup documents using binarize, deskew & despeckle. DotImage includes Touch Support & Adaptive Scaling for Mobile Viewing and you can upload files using drag & drop or selection. A Thumbnail viewer is included to easily view and rearrange pages. DotImage includes the ability to convert an image from a supported format to PDF. With our PDF Reader add-on you can view, edit, easily convert from PDF to another image format and combine or separate PDFs. Read or write PDF meta-data or bookmarks, view and annotate PDFs, in browser PDF Form Fill and PDF/A and password required encrypted PDFs are also supported. Add OCR to create Searchable PDFs.

Starting Price: $3,000 one-time payment

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Raftt

Raftt saves you from the frustrations of configuring, maintaining, and sharing development environments on your local machine. Containers were designed to simplify production, not development. So even if you get past the pain-to-deal-with drift and decay in your local env — you still spend hours working out what’s going on. With Raftt’s platform, you can spawn an unlimited number of consistent remote envs to run your code. Without losing the feeling of local development with your existing workflows and IDEs. With Raftt, you can share a URL to your remote dev env with your teammates. So you can collaborate and debug together in real-time. Your product lead can always access the link — even after you’ve switched to work on a different feature. Raftt lets you interactively debug containers inside your IDE by changing the nature of how they work. And now, when your container’s main process dies, the container doesn’t capsize with it.

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Intel oneAPI HPC Toolkit

Intel

High-performance computing (HPC) is at the core of AI, machine learning, and deep learning applications. The Intel® oneAPI HPC Toolkit (HPC Kit) delivers what developers need to build, analyze, optimize, and scale HPC applications with the latest techniques in vectorization, multithreading, multi-node parallelization, and memory optimization. This toolkit is an add-on to the Intel® oneAPI Base Toolkit, which is required for full functionality. It also includes access to the Intel® Distribution for Python*, the Intel® oneAPI DPC++/C++ C¿compiler, powerful data-centric libraries, and advanced analysis tools. Get what you need to build, test, and optimize your oneAPI projects for free. With an Intel® Developer Cloud account, you get 120 days of access to the latest Intel® hardware, CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, and Intel oneAPI tools and frameworks. No software downloads. No configuration steps, and no installations.

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Documatic

Ask a question of your codebase. Documatic intelligently gets you the answer. Documatic search uses AI to understand your question, and identifies the bit of documentation or code containing the answer. You can ask questions from the Documatic platform, vscode and slack. Easily visualize how the important infrastructure in your codebase interacts. Never again will you question whether a function impacts your AWS resources! Documatic builds a map of your codebase so you can quickly see the flow of information from file to file, folder to folder. We highlight important infrastructure like cloud, databases and payment processors so you always know the impacts of your code on security and costs. Generate documentation in the changes in your codebase each day, week, or month.

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Testwell CTC++

Testwell

Testwell CTC++ is a powerful instrumentation-based code coverage and dynamic analysis tool for C and C++ code. With certain add-on components CTC++ can be used also on C#, Java and Objective-C code. Further, again with certain add-on components, CTC++ can be used to analyse code basically at any embedded target machines, also in very small ones (limited memory, no operating system). CTC++ provides Line Coverage, Statement Coverage, Function Coverage, Decision Coverage, Multicondition Coverage, Modified Condition/Decision Coverage (MC/DC), Condition Coverage. As a dynamic analysis tool, CTC++ shows the execution counters (how many times executed) in the code, i.e. more than a plain executed/not executed information. You can also use CTC++ to measure function execution costs (normally time) and to enable function entry/exit tracing at test time. CTC++ is easy to use.

Starting Price: Free

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BullseyeCoverage

Bullseye Testing Technology

BullseyeCoverage is an advanced C++ code coverage tool used to improve the quality of software in vital systems such as enterprise applications, industrial control, medical, automotive, communications, aerospace and defense. The function coverage metric gives you a quick overview of testing completeness and indicates areas with no coverage at all. Use this metric to broadly raise coverage across all areas of your project. Condition/decision coverage provides detail at the control structure level. Use this metric to attain high coverage in specific areas, for example during unit testing. C/D coverage provides better detail than statement coverage or branch coverage, and provides much better productivity than more complex coverage metrics.

Starting Price: $900 one-time payment

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Coverlet

It works with .NET Framework on Windows and .NET Core on all supported platforms. Coverlet supports coverage for deterministic builds. The solution at the moment is not optimal and need a workaround. If you want to visualize coverlet output inside Visual Studio while you code, you can use the following addins depending on your platform. Coverlet also integrates with the build system to run code coverage after tests. Enabling code coverage is as simple as setting the CollectCoverage property to true. The coverlet tool is invoked by specifying the path to the assembly that contains the unit tests. You also need to specify the test runner and the arguments to pass to the test runner using the --target and --targetargs options respectively. The invocation of the test runner with the supplied arguments must not involve a recompilation of the unit test assembly or no coverage result will be generated.

Starting Price: Free

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CodeWP

Save all of your generations. Export them in JSON format, ready for popular code snippet plugins, functions.php, your theme, or other implementation. Share publically or with specific users. Goodbye tedious testing, broken websites, or StackOverflow. If you're not a developer, think of CodeWP as a helpful mentor. If you are, get ready to maximize your efficiency. We trained CodeWP on WordPress and WooCommerce PHP, JS and jQuery. Soon, we'll support popular plugins like Elementor, Learndash and The Events Calendar (to name a few). And, it's constantly learning and giving you better generations. This is not a plugin - we are a plugin agnostic service, meaning you can use CodeWP generations with any free/paid code snippet plugin, theme, or WordPress installation.

Starting Price: $12 per month

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SignPath

In times of growing cyber security breaches, platform vendors and customers require all deployed applications to be digitally signed. Code signing is the only way to guarantee that software has not been modified by a third party. The corporate solutions of SignPath enable DevOps teams to seamlessly integrate code-signing into their development lifecycle and empowers InfoSec teams to define secure policies and gain transparency over private key usage. Frequent software releases and updates, the popularity of microservices as well as stricter enforcement of internal security measures have increased the complexity for code signing. SignPath is made for developers from one of the leading European software development companies for government institutions. We automate security best practices to keep your development process agile.

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Frameium

Testhouse

Frameium is an automation framework built by Testhouse on top of open source tools for faster automation. Frameium is over and above a regular framework as it provides the best ways to automate test scripts. Frameium makes it easy to write powerful and effective test scripts to automate web, mobile, and desktop testing. Any business in any industry can use this framework. Our banking customers (internet banking, mobile banking, and core banking), Microsoft Dynamics 365 (CE, F&O) users, and ecommerce retailers have benefited from up to a 60% improvement in automation speed. Reduced business expenses with savings in manual testing time and effort. Huge ROI with fewer efforts for automation using a ready-to-use functional repository. Distributed testing across multiple platforms for compatibility testing. Features for easy regression and sanity testing and powerful test reports with metrics and analysis.

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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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Gurobi Optimizer

Gurobi Optimization

With our powerful algorithms, you can add complexity to your model to better represent the real world, and still solve your model within the available time. Integrate Gurobi into your applications easily, using the languages you know best. Our programming interfaces are designed to be lightweight, modern, and intuitive, to minimize your learning curve while maximizing your productivity. Our Python API includes higher-level modeling constructs that make it easier to build optimization models. Choose from Anaconda Python distributions with pre-built libraries to support application development, Spyder for graphical development, and Jupyter for notebook-style development.

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Azure Cloud Services

Microsoft

Build the web and cloud applications you need on your terms while using the many languages we support. Simplify the management of your applications with cloud services while ensuring high availability. Scale your environment automatically based on demand and reduce costs. Automate operating system and application updates to increase security. Take advantage of integrated health monitoring and load balancing. Focus on your application, not the underlying cloud infrastructure. Highly available and massively scalable platform for your applications and APIs. Accelerated application deployment. Autoscaling of your cloud environment to optimize costs and improve performance. Integrated health monitoring and load balancing with dashboards and real-time alerts. Excellent development experience using the Azure SDK, which integrates seamlessly with Visual Studio. Build and deploy powerful web and cloud applications and services in minutes with Azure Cloud Services.

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Visual Studio Code Live Share

Microsoft

Visual Studio Live Share is a real-time collaborative development tool that enables developers to co-edit and co-debug code, share terminals and servers, and communicate seamlessly within their preferred development environments. It supports various programming languages and application types, allowing instant and secure sharing of projects without the need for cloning repositories or setting up additional environments. Live Share facilitates pair programming, code reviews, technical interviews, and educational sessions by providing features such as shared debugging sessions, terminal instances, and localhost web app forwarding. Participants can maintain their personalized editor settings, including themes and keybindings, while collaborating, ensuring a comfortable and efficient workflow. Set breakpoints and group scroll through the code. View web applications and databases without exposing Internet ports.

Starting Price: $50 per month

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Deleaker

Softanics

Deleaker 🛠️ is a powerful memory leak detection tool for C++, .NET, and Delphi developers. It seamlessly integrates with Visual Studio, RAD Studio, and works as a standalone app. Deleaker helps identify and fix memory leaks, GDI leaks, and handle leaks 🔍 in real time. With an intuitive UI, detailed reports, and precise stack traces, it makes debugging easier ⚡. Whether you're working on a large project or a small app, Deleaker ensures your software stays efficient and leak-free 🚀.

Starting Price: $149

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Liquid XML Data Binder

Liquid Technologies Ltd

Liquid XML Data Binder enables you to load XML Documents into a strongly typed object model within your C#, C++, Java, Visual Basic .Net or VB6 (COM) source code. Meaning fewer coding errors, reduced development and testing time, and an increase in schema conformance and coding reliability. Liquid XML Data Binder Features: - Generates an easy to use class library for C++, C#, Java, Visual Basic .Net, and VB 6 (COM) from an XML Schema. - Generated HTML documentation for your class library API. - Supports Smart Device platforms Android and iOS. - Supports W3C XML Schema (XSD), XDR and DTD standards. - Supports generating WCF Web Services from WSDL. - Supports JSON serialization. - Supports Fast Infoset binary XML serialization. - Support for the most complex XML standards. - Royalty free distribution of compiled code and runtime.

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Kameleoon

Make better customer experiences. Our A/B testing, full-stack, and personalization platform gives marketers, product teams, and developers the power to boost engagement and conversion. Intuitive A/B testing and personalization features for every type of team. One platform for all your A/B testing, full-stack, and personalization needs. HIPAA, CCPA, and GDPR capabilities enable teams to leverage data securely. Test copy, design, or entire pages for all channels and devices without impacting performance. Unlimited variations. Developers welcome, but not required. Roll out new features with confidence. Instantly update your mobile apps. Run experiments in real-time everywhere in your tech stack. Provide every visitor with an individualized experience. Harness AI to serve relevant messaging and products to every customer based on Kameleoon Conversion Score (KCS™).

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Sonatype Lifecycle

Sonatype

Sonatype Lifecycle is a leading software composition analysis (SCA) platform designed to secure applications by automating dependency management and vulnerability monitoring. It provides real-time alerts and in-depth analytics to help developers identify and fix security risks across the software development lifecycle (SDLC). With features like automated patching, customizable policies, and SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) management, Sonatype helps businesses integrate secure open-source components without compromising speed. The platform enhances DevOps workflows by offering insights into dependencies, minimizing risks, and ensuring compliance, all while speeding up development.

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Sonatype Nexus Repository

Sonatype

Sonatype Nexus Repository is a robust binary repository manager designed to store, manage, and distribute open-source components, dependencies, and artifacts across the software development lifecycle (SDLC). It supports over 20 formats, including Maven, npm, PyPI, and Docker, allowing for seamless integration with build tools and CI/CD pipelines. With advanced features like high availability, disaster recovery, and scalability across cloud platforms, Nexus Repository ensures secure and efficient management of your software artifacts. The platform enhances collaboration, automates workflows, and improves visibility into your software supply chain, helping teams manage dependencies and improve software quality.

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PVS-Studio

Program Verification Systems

PVS-Studio is a tool for detecting bugs and security weaknesses in the source code of programs, written in C, C++, C# and Java. It works under 64-bit systems in Windows, Linux and macOS environments, and can analyze source code intended for 32-bit, 64-bit and embedded ARM platforms.

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SOAtest

Parasoft

Anchored in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), Parasoft SOAtest simplifies the complexity of functional testing across APIs, UIs, databases, and more. Change management systems continuously monitor quality, making the API and web service testing tool a perfect fit for Agile DevOps environments. Parasoft SOAtest delivers fully integrated API and web service testing tools that automate end-to-end functional API testing. Streamline automated testing with advanced functional test-creation capabilities for applications with multiple interfaces (REST & SOAP APIs, microservices, databases, and more). The tools reduce the risk of security breaches and performance outages by transforming functional testing artifacts into security and load equivalents. Such reuse, along with continuous monitoring of API for change, allows faster and more efficient testing.

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Amazon

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed with Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, and Docker on familiar servers such as Apache, Nginx, Passenger, and IIS. You can simply upload your code and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment, from capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling to application health monitoring. At the same time, you retain full control over the AWS resources powering your application and can access the underlying resources at any time. There is no additional charge for Elastic Beanstalk - you pay only for the AWS resources needed to store and run your applications. Elastic Beanstalk is the fastest and simplest way to deploy your application on AWS. You simply use the AWS Management Console, a Git repository, or an integrated development environment (IDE) such as Eclipse or Visual Studio to upload your application.

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Embold

Embold Technologies

Get a deeper understanding of your software with Embold's profound analysis and intuitive visuals. Visually comprehend the size and quality of every component and fully understand the state of your software at a glance. Understand issues on a component level with rich annotations and see where they are located in your code. View and navigate through all ingoing and outgoing dependencies of your software components and learn how they influence each other. Quickly understand how to refactor and split complex components by using our innovative partitioning algorithms. The EMBOLD SCORE, calculated from four dimensions, tells you which components have the biggest impact on the overall quality and need to be solved first. Analyze your code’s structural design with the help of our unique set of anti-patterns on a class, functional, and method level. Embold utilizes several metrics ranging from cyclomatic complexity to coupling between objects to measure the quality of software systems.

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Seeker

Black Duck

Seeker® is an interactive application security testing (IAST) solution that provides unparalleled visibility into your web application's security posture. It identifies vulnerability trends against compliance standards such as OWASP Top 10, PCI DSS, GDPR, CAPEC, and CWE/SANS Top 25. Seeker enables security teams to track sensitive data, ensuring it is handled securely and not stored in log files or databases without proper encryption. Its seamless integration into DevOps CI/CD workflows allows for continuous application security testing and verification. Unlike other IAST solutions, Seeker not only identifies security vulnerabilities but also verifies their exploitability, providing developers with a prioritized list of confirmed issues to address. By employing patented methods, Seeker processes extensive HTTP(S) requests swiftly, reducing false positives to near zero and enhancing productivity while minimizing business risk.

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Code Time

Software.com

Automate your time tracking. Get automatic time tracking that will save you time, so you can focus more on what matters. Track and visualize all of your projects, or export your data to connect to your billing and timesheet tools. Code Time is a time tracking and analytics plugin provides detailed reports of your code time by project. Visualize your projects, daily progress, and work calendar in one spot. Upgrade to streamline project reports and billing. Export your data, packaged up over any time period or by project or branch. Power your own dashboards or reports in your favorite analytics tool or upload with billing tools. Software integrates directly with more than 15 of the most popular code editors and IDEs. Track your hours and generate reports right from your code editor.

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Azure Data Lake

Microsoft

Azure Data Lake includes all the capabilities required to make it easy for developers, data scientists, and analysts to store data of any size, shape, and speed, and do all types of processing and analytics across platforms and languages. It removes the complexities of ingesting and storing all of your data while making it faster to get up and running with batch, streaming, and interactive analytics. Azure Data Lake works with existing IT investments for identity, management, and security for simplified data management and governance. It also integrates seamlessly with operational stores and data warehouses so you can extend current data applications. We’ve drawn on the experience of working with enterprise customers and running some of the largest scale processing and analytics in the world for Microsoft businesses like Office 365, Xbox Live, Azure, Windows, Bing, and Skype. Azure Data Lake solves many of the productivity and scalability challenges that prevent you from maximizing the

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Microsoft Viva

Microsoft

Microsoft Viva is an employee experience platform that brings together communications, knowledge, learning, resources, and insights. With Viva, foster a culture where people and teams are empowered to be their best from anywhere. Microsoft Viva Topics helps people put knowledge to work, using AI to surface expertise in the apps they use every day. Viva Topics automatically organizes content across apps and teams with built-in security and compliance features. Coming to desktop in April, Microsoft Viva Connections gives everyone a personalized destination to discover relevant news, conversations, and the tools they need to succeed. Shape an inclusive corporate culture where everyone has a voice. Coming to public preview in April, Microsoft Viva Learning empowers people to better themselves with employee training—naturally and without disruption. Encourage a culture of growth that helps people reach their potential.

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Business Software for Visual Studio - Page 6

Top Software that integrates with Visual Studio as of July 2025 - Page 6

C++/CLI

JSON

Project Online

DotImage

Raftt

Intel oneAPI HPC Toolkit

Documatic

Testwell CTC++

BullseyeCoverage

Coverlet

CodeWP

SignPath

Frameium

Wisej.NET

Gurobi Optimizer

Azure Cloud Services

Visual Studio Code Live Share

Deleaker

Liquid XML Data Binder

Kameleoon

Sonatype Lifecycle

Sonatype Nexus Repository

PVS-Studio

SOAtest

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Embold

Seeker

Code Time

Azure Data Lake

Microsoft Viva