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What is Visual Studio?

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…

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Customizable and productivity tools galore!

Rating: 9 out of 10
December 17, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Visual Studio Code in multiple areas of the business. Engineering team, the majority of us use the product and have come to use it often when we’re peer programming, to...
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Verified user
Engineer
Microsoft Visual Studio6 years of experience

Visual Studio True Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 29, 2024
Vetted ReviewVerified User
Visual Studio IDE is used by my department, not [the] whole organization. It is used to develop web applications which are being used by our whole organization to visualize da...
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Rohit Goyal
Analyst - Information Technology
Risk Analyst
Deutsche Bank
Microsoft Visual Studio5 years of experience

Visual Studio IDE Review

Rating: 7 out of 10
October 10, 2022
Vetted ReviewVerified User
Visual Studio is being across the whole organization by different teams and team members . It is incredibly quick and smooth compared to other IDE such as Eclipse . I have bee...
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RISHAB MADAAN
Engineer - Other
Web Developer
Celayix
Microsoft Visual Studio3 years of experience

Visual Studio IDE

Rating: 10 out of 10
October 4, 2022
Vetted ReviewVerified User
Visual Studio Code is the preferred IDE for µServices development include Java Microservice. Best IDE for .Net core, NodeJS, Python and also Spring Boot coding with very frien...
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A. Kıvanç Güler
Engineer - Sales
Hybrid Cloud Automation Sales Leader, Finance
IBM
Microsoft Visual Studio5 years of experience

Visual Studio IDE helps increase our team's productivity while saving valuable time, too!

Rating: 10 out of 10
January 24, 2022
Vetted ReviewVerified User
Use it to help create educational applications for inside and outside the classroom. Develop literacy and reading productivity apps for K-12 and beyond. The use of Visual Stud...
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Joan Brennan
Administrator - Corporate
Founder/CEO
Brennan Innovators, LLC
Microsoft Visual Studio5 years of experience
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Pricing

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Professional

$45.00

Cloud
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Enterprise

$250.00

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per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $45 per month
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Product Demos

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Product Details

What is Visual Studio?

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.

Visual Studio Videos

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Getting Started with Visual Studio

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Visual Studio Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Visual Studio starts at $45.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 8.8.

The most common users of Visual Studio are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Visual Studio is a powerful IDE

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
January 12, 2021
Verified User
Project Manager in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 11-50 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Visual Studio
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I am using Visual Studio IDE as part of a development team in a software organization where I am supervising the development as a project manager. It helps us to standardize the development environment among team members. We are using it for development of an application for cloud environment; however, it is able to develop mobile and desktop applications as well.
Pros
  • Great IntelliSense
  • Easy-to-use interface
  • Standardization of development environment among team
Cons
  • Hard to find or navigate some options/features for first time
  • Very heavy and causes the system to slow
  • Very large in size, occupies a lot of disk space
  • High system configuration required for smooth operation
Likelihood to Recommend
Visual Studio IDE is best for developing desktop, web, and mobile applications. It is well suited for both local and cloud environments and helps to standardize software development environments among software development teams, groups, and/or organizations. It comprises a lot of very useful and powerful development features with great IntelliSense to support software developers in achieving their goals in the shortest time with ease.

The Best IDE

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
September 24, 2018
GL
Gordon Lo
Digital Solutions Architect
Dynacare (Hospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Visual Studio
13 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
The 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.
Pros
  • 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.
Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
If you live in the Microsoft stack, the Visual Studio IDE is the only IDE you need. The integration into Azure DevOps is amazing - again, keeping in the Microsoft ecosystem of products - which makes life as a developer that much better. I don't really see VS used outside the Microsoft stack - for Java development you may still want to use Eclipse, and mobile dev for Android you'll have better tools provided by google based on Eclipse.

A Great Windows Software IDE

Rating: 6 out of 10
Incentivized
January 18, 2018
Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Computer Software Company, 11-50 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Visual Studio
20 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
It is used in our development group. Our client application is written in C# and we utilize Team Services along with Visual Studio for source code control. It allows easy integration with Visual Studio Online to show fixes to bugs and other changes within the source code while editing.
Pros
  • It is the best IDE for developing software utilizing Microsoft technologies.
  • The IDE has many integrations to other Microsoft services in order to help increase development and testing productivity.
  • The IDE will has many wizard class builders that will generate code for you.
Cons
  • Visual Studio is very sluggish when dealing with XAML.
  • Visual Studio can take a very long time to open large projects.
  • The Visual Studio install is very large and can take a lot of disk space.
Likelihood to Recommend
Visual Studio would be my only choice when developing software to run specifically on a Windows OS. All of the integrations to other Microsoft technologies greatly increase development and testing productivity.

Visual Studio IDE Review

Rating: 7 out of 10
October 10, 2022
RM
RISHAB MADAAN
Web Developer
Celayix (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Visual Studio
3 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Visual Studio is being across the whole organization by different teams and team members .
It is incredibly quick and smooth compared to other IDE such as Eclipse . I have been an Eclipse user for a long time but after shifting to visual studio, there is no going back . The extensions available are amazing and the most important aspect is the ease with which these extensions can be downloaded and used .
I used numerous of them such as debugger for Chrome, walnut, gitLens and so on .
Pros
  • Availability of Extensions
  • Compatibility with Git
  • Easy settings
Cons
  • Better Technical Support
  • Hard to find the right option
  • Disk space occupied is large
Likelihood to Recommend
Visual studio is one stop development shop. A centralized place where you can find all development tools and workflow .
The IDE has a user friendly display and debugging tools are quite good . It is especially suited when you are developing .Net applications The updating of tools is easy and smooth . Integration with Azure DevOps is excellent and it continue with improve .

Artillery of the Developer: A comprehensive IDE

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
February 29, 2020
Verified User
Professional in Research & Development
Consumer Electronics Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Visual Studio
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
  • User Interface/User Experience
  • Debugging
  • Library management
Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
Visual Studio IDE is well suited for end-to-end software development projects, especially the ones that use Microsoft's .NET library. It is possible to start from scratch, develop, debug, test, implement the software, basically all the software development processes through Visual Studio IDE. It is also good to be able to compile an interpreted language project such as Java/Python. UI is very suitable for developers who frequently work at night.
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