
Add local documentation and another few gigabytes are eaten up. This makes for a hefty package with all the options and all the third-party components, Visual Studio 2015 weighs in at 23GB. It can target Windows and Android-during installation there's an option to fetch and install the Android SDK-and with the included Xamarin libraries it also supports iPhones, iPads, and Apple Watches. Out of the box, a full install of Visual 2015 Enterprise includes support for C#, C++, Visual Basic, Java, F#, Python, JavaScript, PowerShell, Microsoft's JavaScript-based TypeScript, and SQL.

A few days ahead of the Windows 10 launch, Microsoft has released the latest version of its development environment. Over the last few years, Microsoft has been making Visual Studio into a tool for cross-platform development, with a mix of both first- and third-party components, and Visual Studio 2015 takes this to the next level.
