# Solidity Available in Visual Studio

DevFeed: [Solidity Available in Visual Studio](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/solidity-available-in-visual-studio-16753.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/03/30/solidity-available-in-visual-studio>)

Author: Vitalik Buterin

Published: 2016-03-30T20:17:25Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [Ethereum Foundation Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/ethereum-foundation-blog.md>)

Topics: [Solidity](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/solidity.md>), [Visual Studio](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/visual-studio.md>), [ide](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ide.md>), [Ethereum](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ethereum.md>), [Blockchain](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/blockchain.md>), [Microsoft](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/microsoft.md>), [Programming language](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/programming-language.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [Programming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/programming.md>)

Tags: [blockchain](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blockchain.md>), [blockchain-technology](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blockchain-technology.md>), [compilation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compilation.md>), [deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deployment.md>), [developers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developers.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [ethereum](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ethereum.md>), [extension](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/extension.md>), [integration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/integration.md>), [microsoft](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/microsoft.md>), [programming-language](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/programming-language.md>), [research-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/research-development.md>), [smart-contract](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/smart-contract.md>), [ui](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ui.md>), [visual-studio](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/visual-studio.md>)

## AI overview

ConsenSys and Microsoft announced that Solidity would be available in Microsoft Visual Studio. The integration provides project scaffolding, smart contract samples, ABI and binary generation, compilation and deployment menus, and an automatically generated interface for testing contract calls across Ethereum deployments.

## Source excerpt

Consensys and Microsoft have announced that the Ethereum contract programming language Solidity will be available in Microsoft's Visual Studio integrated development environment. ConsenSys and Microsoft collaborated on this integration to enable developers to rapidly build smart contract-based applications for the public Ethereum blockchain, as well as private and consortium blockchain...