Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft. It is used to develop computer programs, websites, web apps, web services, and mobile apps. Visual Studio uses Microsoft software development platforms such as Windows API, Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Store, and Microsoft Silverlight. It can produce both native code and managed code.

For Individuals

Any developer can use Visual Studio Community to create free or paid apps.

For Organizations

An unlimited number of users within an organization can use Visual Studio Community for the following scenarios: in a classroom learning environment, for academic research, or for contributing to open-source projects.

For All Other Usage Scenarios

In non-enterprise organizations, up to five users can use Visual Studio Community. In enterprise organizations (meaning those with >250 PCs or >$1 Million US Dollars in annual revenue), no use is permitted beyond the open-source, academic research, and classroom learning environment scenarios described above.

VLC media player is a free, open source software, designed to play videos and audio files. It supports a wide range of formats, including MPEG4, DivX, and WAV files. It is also able to convert between various media formats and allows users to customize their videos.

3D libraries for Python

Packet capture utility

WinSCP is a free and open-source SFTP client, FTP client, WebDAV client, Amazon S3 client, and SCP client for Microsoft Windows. Its main function is file transfer between a local and a remote computer. Beyond this, WinSCP offers scripting and basic file manager functionality.

Wireshark is the world’s foremost and widely-used network protocol analyzer. It lets you see what’s happening on your network at a microscopic level.

Vivado Design Suite is a software suite produced by Xilinx for synthesis and analysis of HDL designs, superseding Xilinx ISE with additional features for system on a chip development and high-level synthesis.

Xming is the leading X Window System Server for Microsoft Windows®. It is fully featured, lean, fast, simple to install, and because it is standalone native Windows, easily made portable (not needing a machine-specific installation or access to the Windows registry).

ZBrush is a digital sculpting tool that combines 3D/2.5D modeling, texturing and painting. It uses a proprietary “pixol” technology which stores lighting, color, material, orientation, and depth information for the points making up all objects on the screen.

The µVision IDE combines project management, run-time environment, build facilities, source code editing, and program debugging in a single powerful environment oriented towards microcontroller programming.