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Amazon Toolkit with Amazon Q

This is the user guide for the Amazon Toolkit for Visual Studio. If you are looking for the Amazon Toolkit for VS Code, see the User Guide for the Amazon Toolkit for Visual Studio Code.

What is the Toolkit for Visual Studio

The Amazon Toolkit for Visual Studio is a plugin for the Visual Studio IDE that makes it easier for you to develop, debug, and deploy .NET applications that use Amazon Web Services. The Toolkit for Visual Studio is supported for Visual Studio versions 2019 and later. For details about how to download and install the kit, see the Installation and set up topic in this User Guide.

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The Toolkit for Visual Studio was also released for Visual Studio 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, and 2017 versions. However, those versions are no longer supported. For more information, see the Installation and set up topic in this User Guide.

The Toolkit for Visual Studio contains the following features to enhance your development experience.

Amazon Explorer

The Amazon Explorer tool window is accessible in the IDE's View menu and enables you to interact with Amazon services in Visual Studio. For a list of supported Amazon services and features, see the Working with Amazon Services topic in this User Guide.

Amazon Q

Chat with Amazon Q Developer in Visual Studio to ask questions about building at Amazon and for assistance with software development. Amazon Q can explain coding concepts and code snippets, generate code and unit tests, and improve code through debugging or refactoring.

To install and set up Amazon Q for the Toolkit for Visual Studio, see the Getting started topic in this User Guide. To learn more about working with Amazon Q Developer, see the Amazon Q Developer in IDEs topic in the Amazon Q Developer User Guide. For detailed information about plans and pricing for Amazon Q, see the Amazon Q pricing guide.

To open an issues or view currently open issues, visit https://github.com/aws/aws-toolkit-visual-studio/issues.

To learn more about Visual Studio, visit https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/.