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The complete .NET IDE.It opens in a second.

Real WinForms, WPF and WebForms designers. First-class VB.NET. Every .NET from Framework 4.8 to .NET 10, Blazor and Razor included. A native debugger, Diagnostic Tools, Git, Docker and an AI agent that reads your solution and edits it — all in one window that starts before your coffee lands.

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The whole .NET loop, one window

Edit, design, debug, profile and ship without leaving the app — no 10 GB install, no context switch to a second tool.

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Write real code

Roslyn completion, live diagnostics and refactorings for C# and VB.NET — now inside Blazor @code blocks too. Genuine language services, not regex tricks.

See the editor
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Put AI to work

An agent that reads your solution, edits files and runs commands — plus ghost-text in 13 languages, AI commits, review and test generation.

Meet the agent
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Debug natively

Breakpoints, watch, call stack and attach-to-process on the open netcoredbg engine, with AI exception analysis. No license lock.

Start debugging
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Test & profile

Run or debug any xUnit, NUnit or MSTest, then watch live memory, CPU and .NET Counters in VS-style Diagnostic Tools.

Profile a run
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Ship it

Built-in Git, Docker tooling, multi-project Multi-Run and a one-click publish wizard carry you all the way to production.

Ship to prod

Everything a .NET shop actually uses

Not a stripped editor with plugins bolted on — the full-stack tooling, built in and wired together.

.NET 4.8 → 10

Every era of .NET

Build on the latest .NET across web, cloud, desktop and AI — while your Framework 4.8 WinForms, WPF, WebForms and MVC 5 projects scaffold, build and run right beside them, no separate toolchain.

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C# & VB.NET

Both languages are first-class citizens — same IntelliSense, same designers, same templates, no compromises.

Visual designers

The genuine WinForms DesignSurface, a live WPF XAML preview and a WebForms Design view — drag, drop, wire events.

AI agent, not just chat

Give it a task; it reads your solution, edits files and runs commands. Ghost-text, AI commits, review, docs and test generation come along.

Diagnostic Tools

Live memory and CPU charts, .NET Counters over EventPipe and memory-snapshot compare — the VS profiler, cross-platform.

DevExpress, auto-wired

Install DevExpress and the IDE notices: skinned controls in the toolbox, templates, an offline feed and a version picker.

Multi-Run & ship

Launch several projects at once, then finish with built-in Git, a Monaco diff, Docker and a publish wizard.

Coming from Visual Studio?

A Visual Studio alternative that opens in a second — on Windows and Mac

CodeVerse IDE is a full .NET code IDE, not a stripped-back editor with plugins bolted on. You keep the real designers, the native debugger and the project system you rely on — without the multi-gigabyte install — and it runs natively on Apple Silicon now that Visual Studio for Mac is retired.

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Starts before your coffee lands

One window opens in about a second. Edit, design, debug and ship without a 10 GB setup or switching to a second tool.

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A real .NET IDE for Mac

Native Apple-Silicon build: C# and VB.NET IntelliSense, the debugger, Test Explorer, Git, Docker, Database Studio and the AI agent — all on macOS.

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The designers you actually miss

Genuine WinForms, WPF and WebForms design surfaces on Windows — drag, drop and two-way code-behind sync, not a read-only preview.

Tour the designers

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The complete list

Every feature, in one place.

The full inventory of CodeVerse IDE 1.9.5 — nine areas, ninety-odd features, all built in. Nothing here is a plugin you have to go and find.

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Editor & Language

  • Monaco editor — the VS Code editing engine
  • Roslyn IntelliSense for C# and VB.NET — completion, hover, signature help
  • Semantic highlighting — methods, types, locals and fields each in their own colour
  • Razor & Blazor — real C# IntelliSense inside @code blocks
  • Live diagnostics — red squiggles on the line that's actually wrong
  • Go to Definition (F12) · Find All References · Rename (F2)
  • Quick fixes, code actions and CodeLens
  • Unused using directives are dimmed — greyed as you type, no AI involved
  • Format document / selection / on type / on save
  • Auto-closing brackets and quotes, smart indent, /// doc comments
  • Split editors, editor groups and pop-out floating windows
  • Quick Open (Ctrl+P), Command Palette, Find in Files, Find & Replace
  • Assembly Browser — decompile any type to C# (ILSpy), in one pinned preview tab
  • Solution Explorer with file nesting, search and drag-and-drop
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AI Assistance

  • Autonomous agent — reads your solution, edits files, runs commands
  • Ghost-text completions in 13 languages, Tab to accept
  • Project-aware AI chat with @file and @codebase mentions
  • Local semantic index — your code is embedded on your machine for search
  • Claude and OpenAI — your API key, or sign in through the browser
  • Next Edit Suggestions — it predicts your next edit elsewhere in the file, Tab to accept; works with no AI key at all
  • MCP servers — connect any Model Context Protocol server and the agent uses its tools
  • Sub-agents — the agent hands a scoped job to a researcher, coder, reviewer or tester
  • Inline AI prompt right in the editor
  • AI commit messages written from the staged diff
  • AI code review — active file or staged changes
  • AI test generation for xUnit, NUnit and MSTest
  • AI XML documentation for a whole file
  • AI project generator — describe an app, get the solution
  • Smart Debug Assistant — explains the exception you just hit
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Visual Designers

  • Native WinForms designer — the real DesignSurface engine Windows
  • Selection handles, drag-resize, undo/redo, component tray
  • Design view opens fast from the first form — the engine warms at startup
  • Double-click to wire an event straight into your code
  • Properties grid with two-way Designer.cs/.vb sync
  • WPF designer with live XAML preview Windows
  • WebForms ASPX — Design / Split / Source views Windows
  • Server-control property and event panels
  • Searchable toolbox with per-project snippets
  • Item templates: dialog, login form, MDI parent, About box
  • DevExpress grids, editors and ribbons render skinned on the surface
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Projects, Templates & Build

  • 20+ project templates in C# and VB.NET, searchable by category
  • Architecture solutions — Clean Architecture and 3-layer UI/BLL/DAL
  • Blazor Web App, Blazor WASM, Web API, MVC, Razor Pages, Worker, xUnit
  • ASP.NET Core + Angular — Node, npm and the CLI installed for you
  • .NET MAUI and MAUI Blazor Hybrid, with a devices/deploy panel
  • .NET Framework 4.8 / 4.7.2 — WinForms, WPF, WebForms, MVC 5
  • MSBuild + IIS Express wired in for legacy web
  • Multi-Run — named groups of projects, launched together in one click
  • Hot Reload, and a publish wizard with profiles and history
  • NuGet manager that suggests packages your code already needs
  • Workspace Trust — an untrusted folder opens in Restricted Mode: read and edit, but nothing runs
  • Missing .NET SDK? It installs one, user-local, no admin rights
  • HTTPS dev certificate provisioned automatically on first web run
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Debug, Test & Profile

  • Debugger on the open netcoredbg engine — no license lock
  • Breakpoints, step in/over/out, watch, locals and call stack
  • Immediate window, debug console and exception settings
  • Attach to process — pick a running app and break in
  • Test Explorer — xUnit, NUnit and MSTest, grouped by project
  • Run or debug one test with breakpoints in it
  • Diagnostic Tools — live memory and CPU graphs
  • .NET Counters over EventPipe, plus a timeline of events
  • Memory snapshots and snapshot-to-snapshot compare
  • Problems panel and a Solution Health dashboard
  • Project analyzer, architecture and dependency analyzer, project graph
  • Workspace snapshots — restore points for the whole folder
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Source Control & Teamwork

  • Live Share — host a session, send a code, and edit the same file together in real time
  • Browse the host's project — a guest gets the host's whole tree and can open any file in it, even one they don't have new
  • Follow the host — when they switch files you go with them, and a late joiner lands on the file they're on new
  • Concurrent edits reconciled by an operational-transform engine — two cursors in one line never corrupt it
  • Clone Repository — paste a GitHub URL, or just owner/repo; it clones and opens
  • Init a repo, stage, unstage, discard, commit, push, pull, fetch
  • Stage individual hunks — commit half a file if you want
  • Branches: create, switch, and a commit history graph
  • Monaco side-by-side diff for working, staged and any revision
  • Merge conflict resolver — ours / theirs / base, side by side
  • Stash manager — push, apply, pop, drop, with diff preview
  • File-at-revision viewer, per-commit file lists
  • AI commit messages generated from what you actually staged
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Data & APIs

  • Database Studio — SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB
  • Browse schemas and tables, run queries, page through results
  • Editable data grid — change a cell and it saves, one row at a time
  • Visual table designer — columns, keys, indexes without SQL
  • Schema compare between two databases
  • API Studio — a REST client that lives in your project
  • Saved requests, headers, bodies, bearer / basic / API-key auth
  • Collections stored in .codeverse/, so they commit with the repo
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Terminal, Docker & DevOps

  • Real PTY terminal — ConPTY on Windows, openpty on macOS
  • Multi-tab sessions with per-tab history; PowerShell, zsh or bash
  • GPU (WebGL) rendering with adaptive redraw — a chatty CLI can't stall the IDE
  • Run coding agents and CLI tools right inside the IDE
  • Docker — Dockerfile generator, images and containers panel
  • Publish targets: folder, zip, single-file, self-contained
  • DevExpress auto-integration — toolbox, templates, offline NuGet feed
  • DevExpress menu — Demo Center, Project Converter, docs and licence Windows
  • Terminals and CLI agents refuse to start in an untrusted folder
  • Output panel per run, with a searchable, memoised tail
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Extensibility & Platform

  • Extension SDK — LSP servers, DAP adapters, themes, panels, toolbox items
  • Marketplace over a folder or HTTP feed, with signature verification
  • Per-project extension recommendations
  • Nine themes including classic VS Blue, movable sidebar, layout profiles
  • Editable settings.json and a keyboard-shortcut reference
  • Export & import your settings — carry your whole setup to another machine
  • Windows 10/11 and macOS on Apple Silicon, self-contained
  • Opens in about a second; delta auto-updates apply on close
  • Updates show their release notes before you restart into them
  • "Open with CodeVerse" from Explorer and Finder
  • Crash reports and usage counters are local and opt-in — never your code
new added in 1.9.5 Windows Windows-only today — the Mac build ships everything else

Three design surfaces. All real, all native.

Anyone can ship a code editor. The visual designers are the reason you reach for an IDE — and the reason a lightweight editor sends you back to a 10 GB install.

WinForms — native engine

The genuine DesignSurface hosts real controls — including skinned DevExpress grids and ribbons — with selection handles, undo and event wiring.

WPF — live XAML preview

Type XAML, watch the window render beside it. Instant feedback without launching the app.

WebForms — Design / Split / Source

ASPX pages render with their real CSS in Design view. Drop server controls, edit properties, wire events.

DevExpress

Install DevExpress. That's the whole setup guide.

  • No hard reference to DX — the IDE detects your install by probing the filesystem and version
  • Toolbox lights up with DevExpress controls — grids, editors, ribbon & bars, navigation — rendered skinned
  • DX templates appear in New Project, pre-referencing the right packages
  • The install's offline NuGet feed is registered automatically — restores work without internet
  • Multiple versions installed? Pin the active one in Settings; newest wins by default
  • Builds and runs fine when DevExpress isn't installed — the whole layer just stays hidden

Legacy .NET

VB.NET is not "legacy" here. It's a first-class citizen.

  • .NET Framework 4.8 & 4.7.2 — WinForms, WPF, WebForms, MVC 5
  • Scaffolds that actually build: MSBuild + NuGet restore wired correctly
  • WebForms runs on IIS Express with one click, browser opens itself
  • VB templates handle the traps — RootNamespace, Handles clauses, Option Infer
  • Same editor, same Git, same AI — old codebase, new toolchain
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The WinForms designer, VB.NET and DevExpress just work — in one window, with Git, the debugger and an AI agent beside them, and it opens in a second. It feels like the IDE was built around our codebase, not the other way round.
Early preview feedback — .NET desktop team

Quick start

Up and running in 60 seconds

1

Install

Run Setup.exe — per-user install, no admin rights, ~30 seconds. Updates download silently and apply when you close the IDE.

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Open your solution

Open a folder, .sln or .csproj — or right-click → Open with CodeVerse in Explorer. net10 and net4x load side by side.

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Design, build, debug

Double-click a Form for the visual designer, press F5 to debug with breakpoints and watches, and let inline AI finish the boring parts.

Pricing

Start free. Go Pro when you're ready.

Every account begins with a 30-day full-featured trial — no card needed. After that, keep coding free forever on Community, or unlock everything with Pro. And the full version is free through 2027 — its last free year.

Community

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Free after your 30-day Pro trial

  • Monaco editor with Roslyn IntelliSense — C# & VB.NET
  • Projects, templates, build & run
  • Built-in Git tooling
  • Auto-updates through every release
  • 30 days of full Pro features included
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Pro Monthly

₹799 / month

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  • Everything in Community
  • Debugger — breakpoints, watch, call stack
  • Database Studio & API Studio
  • Visual designers & DevExpress integration
  • Use on up to 3 machines
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Pro Yearly

₹7,990 / year

Like ₹666 a month, billed once a year

  • Everything in Pro Monthly
  • One payment, a full year of Pro
  • Priority access to new features
  • Use on up to 3 machines
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FAQ

Questions, answered.

The things .NET developers ask before they switch. Still unsure? Talk to us.

Is CodeVerse IDE free?
Every account starts with a 30-day, full-featured Pro trial — no card required. When it ends you can keep coding free forever on Community, or unlock everything with Pro from ₹799/month. The full version is free through 2027 — its last free year.
Which platforms does it run on?
Windows 10/11 and macOS (Apple Silicon) are available today as self-contained installers — no separate runtime setup. Linux is on the way. See all downloads.
Will it open my old .NET Framework projects?
Yes. .NET Framework 4.8 and 4.7.2 WinForms, WPF, WebForms and MVC 5 projects scaffold, build and run right beside your latest .NET 10 work — same window, no separate toolchain. MSBuild and IIS Express are wired in for legacy web.
Are the visual designers real, or just a preview?
Real and native. The genuine WinForms DesignSurface hosts live controls with selection handles, undo, a component tray and two-way Designer.cs/.vb sync — plus a live WPF XAML preview and a WebForms Design/Split/Source view. Drag, drop and wire events like you expect.
Is VB.NET a first-class citizen?
Completely. VB.NET gets the same Roslyn IntelliSense, the same designers, the same templates and the same debugging as C# — no second-class compromises.
Do I need my own AI key?
Bring your own — use a Claude or OpenAI API key, or sign in through a browser-login provider. The agent reads your solution, edits files and runs commands; ghost-text, AI commits, code review, docs and test generation come along.
Is the debugger locked behind a license?
No lock. Debugging runs on the open netcoredbg engine — breakpoints, watch, call stack, immediate window and attach-to-process, with AI exception analysis, all included.
How is this different from VS Code or Visual Studio?
It's a full IDE, not an editor with plugins bolted on — real designers, a native debugger, Diagnostic Tools, Git, Docker and an AI agent are built in and wired together. Yet it opens in about a second, with no 10 GB install. One window carries you from edit to design to debug to ship.
Is there a built-in database tool — an SSMS-style alternative?
Database Studio is built in: connect to SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite or MongoDB, browse schema, run queries and generate schema and data scripts — no separate SSMS or client to install. A REST API Studio for exercising your endpoints ships alongside it.
Is there a real .NET IDE for Mac now that Visual Studio for Mac is gone?
That's exactly the gap CodeVerse fills. The macOS build is native for Apple Silicon and self-contained — C# and VB.NET IntelliSense, the debugger, Test Explorer, Diagnostic Tools, Git, Docker, Database Studio, API Studio, the terminal and the AI agent all ship on the Mac. The three visual designers and .NET Framework builds stay Windows-only, because they need Windows itself. Get the Mac build.
Does it support Blazor and Razor?
Yes — and as of 1.8.5 the C# inside @code and @functions blocks gets the real thing: the completion list knows your own types, your @inject services, your @ref elements and every ComponentBase member. Hover tooltips, parameter hints, live squiggles, F12, Find All References and F2 rename all work in there. Blazor Web App, Blazor WebAssembly and MAUI Blazor Hybrid templates are built in.
What do I need installed before it can build my projects?
Nothing. The IDE itself is self-contained, and on first run it checks for a .NET SDK — if none is there it installs a user-local one (no admin, no sudo) and provisions the HTTPS development certificate so web templates run straight away. On Windows, .NET Framework projects use the MSBuild already on the machine.
Does my code or my AI key leave my machine?
Your code stays local. The semantic index the agent searches is built and stored on your machine, and AI keys are yours — requests go straight from the IDE to the provider you configured. Crash reports and usage counters are off by default, opt-in, and never contain file contents.

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The IDE that still opens your Forms.

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