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MicrosoftVisual Studio: The Swiss Army Knife for Coding2018-09-25T20:59:26.869ZVisual Studio to the goto IDE for every developer at LiveTiles. We use it to build our client-side components in Typescript & React, plus back-end components in C#. Need to open up a database and make some queries? Visual Studio. Need to configure some Azure resources? Visual Studio. Need to manage backlog items and check-ins in source control? That's right - Visual Studio.,Code editing with best-of-class auto-complete, refactoring, and shortcuts
Managing source control branches, work items, etc, fully integrated with Azure DevOps
SQL Management and Cloud resource management,While stability in recent years is so much better, Visual Studio still crashes from time-to-time
Better feature parity between C# and Typescript
Since each team at Microsoft builds their own tooling, there are feature sets that you think would work similarly (EG, web apps vs Azure Functions), but they work completely differently.,10,We spent about the first year on Visual Studio Community, which is completely free for small companies, and it offered a better Developer Experience than any other IDE on the market
Integration with Azure DevOps has made adoption of good Change Management practices very simple for developers
As a company with a core product intended to run on SharePoint, it provides the vital and exclusive tool for delivering products worth millions,Eclipse and NetBeans,Microsoft Azure, Chrome DevTools, Azure SQL Database, Azure CDNErik RalstonThe Best IDE2018-09-24T17:37:27.632ZThe Visual Studio IDE really started with a couple developers at Dynacare when a decision was made to start modernizing our enterprise applications. It's used by over a dozen developers today including back-end, front-end web, report designers, and our IT operations team to develop tools and applications for the business.,Integration into git and in particular VSTS (now named Azure DevOps) is amazing. The experience is seamless and works very well.
Backward compatibility is better than ever, so there's less risk of breaking applications as you upgrade from different versions of Visual Studio.
The development experience in Visual Studio is second-to-none. This really is the gold standard for IDEs with tight integration into the Microsoft stack, built-in unit testing tools, debugging and diagnostics capabilities, ... the list goes on. Everything is at the developer's finger-tips.,Anyone who has the displeasure of working with SSRS or SSIS knows... Visual Studio is pretty bad for building SSIS flows and building SSRS reports. Those two features feel half-baked, and there are usually compile-time errors between VS2013 and newer versions of VS depending on your SSIS package.
Updates occur regularly and often eat up disk space and/or cause instability. You may want to avoid being on the latest and greatest release of VS just because it can cause all sorts of head-aches. Over time, you'll probably notice decreased disk space - the VS updates usually eat disk and never give any of it back.
VS is very heavy - though load-times have gotten better since 2008, it does still require a lot of resources to do your development. If you're still using a traditional hard disk vs a SSD you may find build and launch times particularly slow.,10,Living in the Microsoft eco-system, the VS IDE really isn't a choice, so much as a requirement for developing applications. The speed at which developers become acclimatized to the tool is a sentiment to the ease of use for the IDE and adherence to good practice. This enables us to onboard new developers and get them up and running in a short period of time vs having to install and configure other IDEs.
The VS IDE does include the core set of tools required for development - that alone makes life easier and reduces the need to hunt for 3rd party development add-ons. Though some are nice to have, it isn't required to get going with development. Meaning the IDE is really all you need. Fewer tools to purchase, lower running costs for development.,Eclipse,Azure SQL Database, Azure API Management,15,2,We have home-grown enterprise applications that require enhancements/updates. They are built in the microsoft stack and so require developers to use Visual Studio. These include both web apps, windows services, web services, etc.
Visual Studio is used to build SSRS reports for our operations teams.,The Visual Studio IDE continues to evolve with Microsoft's service offerings. We've been developing cloud native applications using VS IDE. Serverless functions leveraging Azure SQL can all be developed and tested with the VS IDE.,10Gordon LoAn IDE to support the entire software development process2018-09-18T16:55:11.189ZVisual Studio is an excellent IDE that allows users to have many tools in a centralized environment. In our organization we use it through the development process for coding, testing, building and deployment. It supports many languages like C#, Javascript, HTML and Typescript so the integration of a whole solution is very natural. In addition, we use it to manage the code review process.
It has a great integration with version control tools like GitHub and allows users to execute commands within the IDE without having additional open windows.,Great integration of tools to support the entire software development process.
Support for multiple languages like C#, Javascript and Typescript.
Very customizable and lightweight installation requirements.,Feeling unnatural installation in a non-Windows environment.
Intellisense could be better, it works pretty good with Resharper.
Command line for .Net framework projects is poor.,9,Very flexible pricing schemas for licensing allows us to focus on solution development instead of development cost.
The integration of tools in a single IDE is better for estimating the budget because it is not necessary to have other licenses.
Improves the speed of the development process so the ROI can be faster.,IntelliJ IDEA and IntelliJ WebStorm,IntelliJ WebStorm, PyCharm, IntelliJ IDEADiego Fonseca MarínVisual Studio Enterprise is the best for you best developers2018-08-02T15:57:50.296ZVisual Studio is being used for software and web development at my company. It is used by more than fifty developers daily. I use the Visual Studio develop Windows Services as well as various parts of a continuous integration and continuous delivery system . I have also used Visual Studio to develop C#, Visual Basic, PowerShell and Python applications. Visual Studio Professional and Enterprise come with many tools to help you develop software. One of the most useful tools of Enterprise is the load and performance testing tool. It allows you to put a load of more that a thousand users on an application and see how it handles that load.,Visual Studio handles most of the newer languages for the Microsoft platform very well. It makes developing complex applications much easier.
I really like the debugger of Visual Studio. Debugging can become a complex task and the Visual Studio debugger is one of the best debuggers available. It will allow you to view all varable values as well as the machine state at a break point. This can be a great aid in finding many software bugs.
The Visual Studio load testing tool is one of the best load testers available. It can be used to simulate loads form multiple browsers and multiple internet connection types. This allows you to help see what can happen to your application during more realistic loads.,Visual Studio is a very complex tool and some developers have a hard time usig it well. For these developers I show some of the items they need to perform and suggest they not go too deaply in the tool until they get used to using the tool.
Visual Studio has so many features some think it is a draw back to its use. As I mentioned above, it is better to keep to simpler features until you truly feel you can move on to more complex features.
Only a developer who truely understands load testing should attempt to run and then interpret the results of a load test using Visual Studio. If a developer does not have a good grasp on how a computer actually runs they will misinterpret a load test.,9,Visual Studio has allowed the developement group at my company to develop numerous applications keeping us in the top number of contractors performing this work.
Visual Studio Enterprise can be quite expensive so only purchase the Enterprise e-version for your most experienced developers. The Professional version of Visual Studio is quite capable of do the work for less experienced developers and is much lower in cost.
If your company is required to develop software that will be run on Windows-based workstations or servers, you must have Visual Studio to develop with. Any lesser tool will just not be enough.,PyCharm and Eclipse,Jenkins, Netwrix Auditor, Team Foundation Server,Yes,Product Features
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Vendor Reputation,I think we made the proper choice in moving to Visual Studio, so I would not change any part of our evaluation process. The only problem we ran into was some of the newer developers did not want to move from Visual Basic 6.0 to the .Net platform. This, however, did not make sense to me since Visual Basic 6.0 did not generate native code either and was much slower that .Net.Glenn JonesVisual Studio 2017 Review2018-11-25T23:57:17.028ZVisual Studio IDE Professional version 2017 is an essential tool in our development process. Functionality is quite large and I have yet to know all there is in the tool. Our own use is primarily for the development and maintenance of eCommerce web sites to sell our products. The primary language is C# with JavaScript to produce MVC-based webs.,Intellisense is amazingly helpful in being able to code without needing to reference a manual.
GIT integration along with TFS for source control and the build/release/deploy process
Projects and solutions and the provided templates
NuGet is another feature that is essential.,Infrequent crashes and hangs are concerning
Some features are difficult or non-intuitive to use like setup projects
Combined with Resharper, Visual Studio is particularly useful. If Resharper functionality was in Visual Studio, purchase of this utility would not be necessary. I am aware that there are many Resharper features in VS already (refactoring, etc).
Additional powerful controls in MVC would be appreciated.,10,Visual Studio is not inexpensive,,Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Azure, TelerikGary Davis
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