This developer optimized offer provides all supported versions of Visual Studio on Windows Server 2025.

It enables the best experience for individual developers and teams to improve their existing projects, as well as build the next generation of modern cloud solutions.

All plans allow you to quickly set up a development environment in Azure to easily try out building and testing applications using Visual Studio.

All plans include the following tools and settings:

Git for Windows
GitHub CLI
Azure CLI
Azure Developer CLI
Azure PowerShell Module
PowerShell 7
Developer mode enabled
Hyper-V
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

For Visual Studio developers considering Dev Box, we recommend using our Visual Studio 2019 or Visual Studio 2022 Dev Box compatible images as a starting point.

Please share any feedback, requests, or suggestions via this Developer Community ticket.

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