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Visual Studio (now in the 2022 edition) is a 64-bit IDE that makes it easier to work with bigger projects and complex workloads, boasting a fluid and responsive experience for users. The IDE features IntelliCode, its automatic code completion tools that understand code context and that can complete up to a whole line at once to drive accurate and confident coding.
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February 29, 2020
Program in multiple languages in a single editor
We are currently using Visual Studio IDE individually to test the integration of this tool with some programming languages that we are studying to carry out its adoption by the development team. So it's in an experimental environment.
- Shortcuts for performing tasks
- Integration through plugins for different programming languages
- I have difficulties working with the file explorer and some layout provisions of the IDE.
February 29, 2020
Artillery of the Developer: A comprehensive IDE
Visual Studio IDE is used throughout the organization in many directorates and departments such as IT, R&D, Manufacturing and Automation, for software and algorithm development projects, whether the application/algorithm that is being developed is a backend manufacturing software, frontend .NET software or an embedded software application written in C/C++, C# or Java. It is also used to develop AI and machine learning algorithms and pipelines.
- User Interface/User Experience
- Debugging
- Library management
- The vast functionality comes with the cost of being slow so speed has room for improvement.
- The vast functionality also brings huge size both in the disk and main memory, which contributes to the slowness.
February 27, 2020
If you're doing Microsoft BI, this is a must
We use Visual Studio for our Business Intelligence needs - creating SSIS packages, SSRS Reports, and SSAS Cubes. Other departments use it for creating dynamic websites using JavaScript and HTML5.
- SSIS is easy to implement and update.
- Integration with TFS and GIT is easy.
- The command line interface isn't very responsive.
- Having to search for the missing SSRS tools menu is a pain.
February 27, 2020
Microsoft Visual Studio IDE (Enterprise) is a great tool for medium to large businesses
Being a part of a software engineering team we use this tool in order to maintain and create software needed by the business. It allows our team to have access to a suite of tools required to create the software, test the software, protect software source control, and deploy the software out to many environments for use by our customers.
- Build Web and Cloud applications for free.
- Large selection of development languages, i.e. Visual Basic, C#, PHP, Objective-C, JavaScript and Visual C++.
- Heavyweight tool that can feel overwhelming or confusing when first using it.
- Learning curve of the IDE can be daunting for beginning programmers.
February 26, 2020
Review of Visual Studio IDE
We use Visual Studio across the whole organization. We build software using .NET and Visual Studio is a great tool for doing so. It is a great all-inclusive environment that works well for our workflow. We can work with Sql Server, docker containers, powershell, Git, and Azure DevOps all from within the IDE if we choose. We also love the Live Share feature that allows us to work together remotely.
- Simply writing code is a great experience with Visual Studio. It's intellisense is great, as well as code snippets and refactoring tools. All of which combine to help make writing code easier and faster.
- I love the integration with Git and Azure DevOps in particular. From working on tasks and bugs to reviewing changes to code via code lens. Visual Studio really helps us optimize our workflow.
- The biggest issue for me is still startup time. Although significant progress has been made in this area, it can still be a beast when opening large projects. But that is a small price to pay given all of the features and functionality.
January 27, 2020
Visual Studio is the Rolls Royce under the IDE's
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
Our company has 40+ websites, 30+ stand-alone applications, 80+ web APIs and 25+ Windows services and we use Visual Studio as our main developing tool. It is used by a team of 8 to 15 very experienced employees on a daily basis. It's the premium tool, the single most important tool, to drive all IT development.
- Debugging: no other tool can debug so thoroughly as Visual Studio
- Integration through NuGet: extremely easy
- Integration with devops (GIT) is cumbersome. Very buggy. Complains very often, where other tools solve the issue effortlessly.
- Lately it nags about wanting you to implement "Application insights". I can't make it clear that I don't want it. Ever.
November 25, 2019
A well-rounded IDE
We use it in our Application Development department to maintain code for our web platform application, web APIs and AWS lambdas.
- Good Intellisense.
- Very intuitive as far as the organization which is very helpful when I'm trying to find a configuration or feature I'm not familiar with.
- Overall, a very good appearance.
- Easy to use debug and testing tools which makes trouble-shooting code issues much easier.
- It can be a bit slow when dealing with bigger solutions.
- It uses a large amount of memory which can slow down your computer substantially.
- Sometimes the granularity and scale of configurations can be overwhelming.
Visual Studio IDE is used across our entire technical team, as it's the primary way we develop our application in C#. When working with Microsoft, it's effectively a requirement to use this IDE to gain access to the various Microsoft compilers, etc. that support the development of the platform. We use it for various items, such as code linting, building and running the projects, debugging, unit test execution, project organization, and things of that sort.
- Very complete feature set for what it can do.
- The interface is easy to understand and can be made into dark mode OR light mode.
- The output is nicely formatted, and the code highlighting/linting is excellent.
- It can be a bit of a heavy program, especially if you need to open multiple solutions.
- There's no support for opening multiple solutions in one 'program,' which is a bummer.
- Sometimes the more advanced functionality/hotkeys can be hard to remember, so some way to move through the program in a more intuitive way would be nice.
June 07, 2019
Visual Studio still the Best IDE for Windows for more than Two Decades and Still Going Strong
We use Visual Studio Pro for all Windows-oriented software development including but not limited to web front end, report generation, database development, ETL, and information processing code. Because it integrates well with our Github Enterprise source control system, VS gives our developers a solid platform for team-oriented software development, deployment and life-cycle management.
- Since Microsoft offers a free Community Edition of the IDE many of our new developers have used it at home or school and are very familiar with the user interface, requiring little training to move up to the paid, enterprise-friendly editions we use.
- The online community support for Visual Studio is outstanding, as solid or better than any other commercial or open-source project software.
- Microsoft continuously keeps the product up to date and has maintained a history of doing so. They use it internally for their own development so there is little chance it will ever fall out of favor and become unsupported.
- The user interface can be a bit daunting to new people but the myriad of training videos and examples more than makes up for this weakness.
- Being a developer tool that's always being enhanced with new features, sometimes it can crash--save frequently just to be sure--you should be doing this anyway.
June 05, 2019
Visual Studio SSIS and SSAS development
It began as use for a specific project in 2012 at DECAL and in the past few years has now been used more broadly for several cross-departmental requirements. We use VS for SSIS and SSAS project development.
- SSIS processes records in an orderly manner.
- SSIS has many sources and destination choices and we have extended the base SSIS features using a product called Task Factory from SentryOne/Pragmatic Works.
- The major complaint I have with Visual Studio is that the user interface does not handle screen movement well at all if the SSIS steps extend beyond a single screen. It is very cumbersome to move steps around and you cannot even double click on a step to edit it because after the first click the step moves and you wind up opening a different step which happens to be wherever the cursor lands just prior to your second click. It is very frustrating and if Microsoft developers are reading this and my description of the problems are not clear, then I would be happy to discuss this on a phone call or via email to ensure these issues are fixed.
April 12, 2019
Easy to use tool, and powerful at the same time
It is used for internal applications created by the IT department. Usually, it completes the missing functionalities that other softwares that we use internally don't supply as a function.
- Easy to use.
- Many add-ons.
- Platform integrated with the Cloud.
- Too heavy to install.
- Not created for database management.
- Components are hard to install and always changing.
March 29, 2019
Visual Studio IDE is the global standard for any IDE
All developers use Visual Studio IDE. We all like IDE and find it works well with our development.
- Connects with Azure flawlessly.
- Connects with Azure DevOps.
- Been around and is familiar with developers.
- Occasionally, it just breaks with very vague error messages.
- We encounter issues with git and IDE where files are locked and I need to use git bash.
March 27, 2019
Visual Studio IDE -- great development tool
My department uses Visual Studio IDE for C# development, and in some instances, for SQL development as well. We're currently using the 2017 version with an eye on the 2019 launch, but likely we won't switch to that for a little while yet. Visual Studio IDE 2017 is an excellent tool for C# development for desktop clients, server (backend), and web development.
- Great for running unit tests on code.
- Great for compiling/running C#.
- Great for web, desktop, and database development.
- It's come quite a long way, but there are still some performance issues if you add extensions like ReSharper (though that's more JetBrains' issue than Visual Studio's).
- If you aren't careful, you may end up enabling refactor-on-save if you play with some of the settings (found this out the hard way -- easy to undo, but be careful).
March 19, 2019
The most complete IDE for all technology development
Visual Studio IDE is a fully featured software development environment and became the main tool of our IT team, supporting Microsoft .NET Platform development. It is used for creating automation tests with Selenium Webdriver's packages, integrated with Microsoft TFS or not. Its software version control capacities allow developers to work together on different projects from different places with low management.
- Support for open source software development languages and tools. We can use the same IDE to develop for non-Microsoft technologies.
- Hundreds of components to improve development with a lot of technologies, that can be selected and installed individually.
- Strong WEB documentation and training.
- Fully integrated with Microsoft Team Foundation Server, running well in SCRUM scenarios.
- Great software version control and share (checkin/checkout/merge).
- Performance is a concern, especially if you use many components installed simultaneously.
- A large number of functionalities can turn your development environment confused.
March 05, 2019
The gold standard of IDEs.
We use Visual Studio Enterprise (2017 version) for our development of our desktop, server, and some web applications that we sell worldwide. Not only does our development staff use it, but our support staff and some staff in finance and sales use it for creating SQL Server Reporting Services reports that get published to our SQL Server for internal reports. The flexibility and efficiency we gain using Visual Studio over other tools has saved us time and money.
- Rock solid intellisense. For C# and VB.Net code, the intellisense provided by Visual Studio is hands down the best. If you find that you have a hard time remembering parameters of functions, or what object names were, the intellisense will rescue you and help me be an efficient developer.
- Super fast and simple to use debugger for C# and VB. Everything in the debugger is handed to you on a silver platter. When you stop on a break point, it immediately shows you the local variables, the call stack, and even your current memory usage. Setting up watch variables is super simple and you can even make breakpoints conditional so it will only stop on certain conditions.
- Hides the tedious tasks. There are quite a few things like publishing, creating click once deployments, and adding/removing settings in the project files that can be really time consuming when trying to do it by hand (such as if you don't have access to Visual Studio and you need to make changes). Visual Studio hides all the tedium from you by making nice point and click interfaces to get things done quickly.
- Web development needs some help. Make no mistake, the world has moved to the web. Some of the more annoying aspects of Visual Studio is that you do not get the proper intellisense in your HTML for javascript. If you live in the web, you will be using JavaScript and this will start to annoy you after a while. Debugging your JavaScript will need to be done in the browser. While it DOES have the functionality to debug your JavaScript in the IDE, it's painfully slow, doesn't always work right, and did I mention it's slow? We do not have slow machines, this should not be a problem.
- Xamarin "updates" seem to break your project frequently. We never could figure out why it would happen, but it seems like every update to Xamarin would break something and the project would stop building. Fixing it was a combination of deleting folder, app data folder, the project completely and re-getting it from TFS. Weird stuff that many people seem to experience, not just us.
February 28, 2019
Using Visual Studio to build custom apps in a cost effective way
We are using Visual Studio across our entire enterprise. We have any different versions of Visual Studio in use, from 2005 all the way to 2017. We have older applications that we have not had the time to upgrade so we are still keeping them in older versions for ease of use. The hope is to pull everything up to a minimum of 2013 so we can use the Azure DevOps integration.
- Code editing is the best I have used
- Refactoring is so mush easier
- Love the keyboard shortcuts, this helps speed code development
- The menus could be a little more intuitive
- Sometime it freezes or hangs for no reason and a reboot is required, happens much less in newer versions
- Better Git integration
February 12, 2019
It makes development so easy
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I used this tool to develop web applications. It has provided me with lots of features like auto-completion, and running code on browsers. It also provides support for TFS. It also makes debugging easy. It provides support for different languages. I am getting regular updates for this product.
- It's easy to debug the code.
- It provides regular updates
- It provides support for TFS.
- It provides support for comparison tools like Araxis Merge.
- Licensing is a bit costly.
- Sometimes it slows down the system when we are going to build a project.
February 01, 2019
Visual Studio IDE - My IDE of Choice
We're a small development shop. Currently, we use only two development solutions: the Visual Studio IDE and Visual Studio Code. We use Visual Studio (the IDE) for our major projects because it is really good at keeping track of the various aspects of a large solution. We use Visual Studio Code for one-off things that don't require all the capabilities of the larger IDE. The Visual Studio IDE is used by all our developers on current projects.
- Ability to add plug-ins that support non-Microsoft solutions (such as PHP and Python).
- Power to organize and support even large enterprise applications.
- Well-structured. The built-in organization of VS makes it easy to keep track of complex projects.
- Intuitive. The controls in VS are easy to find and use.
- It's very large. Microsoft thought of just about everything with VS and they included it all out of the box. The installation files are massive and take hours to download on a slow connection.
- Resource hungry. VS uses a lot of system resources.
- Complex. One of its strengths can also be viewed as a weakness. As you learn the platform, it can be overwhelming trying to figure out everything that's included.
January 23, 2019
Visual Studio IDE - the only choice for .Net based frameworks
Visual Studio IDE is the one main IDE application used to develop who build 90% of our web applications. Our applications are based on .Net ASP MVC 4 and 5, and .Net Core 2.
We use VS IDE to code, test and build these applications. We also use one of the best plugins in VS that is ReSharper. I personally started my experience with Visual Studio with version 2012, then 2015 and now using 2017.
We use VS IDE to code, test and build these applications. We also use one of the best plugins in VS that is ReSharper. I personally started my experience with Visual Studio with version 2012, then 2015 and now using 2017.
- Code organization and looking for files, classes, and functions in Solution Explorer is fast and reliable.
- There is a lot of code coloring options.
- Has a lot of plugins available.
- The updates are breaking sometimes VS permissions. I have set VS to run as administrator, but sometimes after an update, I need to go to executable file and set it again.
- VS 2017 does not work well sometimes with the MVC 4 applications. It is showing (underlining) errors in code viewer where the errors do not exist. The VS team was not able to fix this.
- There is no good plugin for SASS compilation and Workbench (available only up to version 2015) does not work very well.
- VS could be faster, especially when building applications.
January 21, 2019
My opinion of using Microsoft Visual Studio
Visual Studio is basically used for development purposes in our organisation. It's the only IDE used in our organisation. We debug, test and implement [our] system through Visual Studio.
- Team Foundation Server- Widely used for comparing the old software codes. It helps to maintain development across the whole team.
- Frequent Updates- It's widely updated on security, features and implementation techniques.
- Supports th maximum of programming languages.
- Uses a lot of memory and size constraints on the system.
- Hardware issues- Compilation codes work on different machines and systems according to the operating system and processor.
Visual Studio was primarily used for application development, test case writing, and managing defects at my previous workplace. It was integrated with other Microsoft products to cover the whole SDLC, from requirements-gathering to testing the whole application, may it be manual or automated test cases. It was used by a lot of departments all over the company, mainly used by the developers and QA Engineers to develop and test different functionalities of the software. It helped in solving a lot of client problems by building customized software for the ever-changing requirements of the clients and the business for the core product.
- Ability to write Unit Tests.
- Ample amount of online community support. Every time you run into any issue, 8 out of 10 times the solution could be found in the online forums.
- Integration with a large number of languages like Java, Python, PHP.
- Great design of the reports generated.
- The files can not be searched; the user has to search by the content of the file rather than the file name.
- It uses up a lot of resources in the system, which could be an issue with some of the systems out there.
- The installation process takes a large amount of time.
November 25, 2018
Visual Studio 2017 Review
Visual 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.
November 17, 2018
Visual Studio is the best way to build C# applications for Windows, web, and games!
We use Visual Studio to build a variety of great video games in C# with Unity. We build everything from simple VR applications to advanced MMORPGs all using Visual Studio as our primary code editor and debugger. It blows away the alternatives when it comes to features, functionality, and performance.
- Debugging in Visual Studio is second to none
- Code highlighting & syntax coloring
- Building cross-platform C# games & applications
- It could be better at refactorings. With Resharper, this isn't an issue though.
November 12, 2018
Visual Studio IDE Review - A powerful IDE with which you can perform any development
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
Visual Studio is used only by the systems department of our company, and in turn is implemented by certain developers depending directly on the programming language of the project. We provide support, improvements and new developments to different web platforms of our customers, allowing them to grow and improve the functionalities of their applications efficiently.
- Visual Studio adapts to any programming language, including many features and extensions that make it an excellent IDE. It also has tools that facilitate and improve the user experience and allows you to easily filter and search only one type of element.
- It has its own version control that allows you to maintain local change history.
- Is easy to set up and is complete for software development.
- It has a lot of hardware requirements.
- It consumes a lot of memory, and even more when you work on large projects with different architectures.
- It only works well for Windows.
- Visual Studio IDE provides demo versions that the user can use to explore and adapt to this development environment, but these demo versions have limited functions, which leads the user to want to buy the full versions of this product. It is a commercial strategy that many Development companies implement in their products to assess the impact they generate on users.
October 01, 2018
Visual Studio IDE Review
Visual Studio IDE is mainly used across the whole organization. We use this software in my team as we develop a backend API in C# for our business websites and more. Visual Studio allows our software developers to increase their development speed and hugely improve the code quality inside our business. Visual Studio is a must go in my opinion.
- Powerful debugger and easy to use.
- Powerful tool to create apps.
- Stability.
- Not cross platform.
- Expensive.
- Slow to start.