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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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Pricing

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Professional

$45.00

Cloud
per month

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 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.

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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 Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Great IDE with variety of plugins

Rating: 8 out of 10
October 11, 2017
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Visual Studio
3 years of experience
Visual Studio is the most compact IDE which I can think of. It's been used by our IT Department to code for web applications. It is simple to use and support large number of addons. It also provides tools to format the source code so that it can be understood by other coders. It addresses the issues of cross platform development. Various websites are being developed using Visual Studio. It also provides an addon which helps you to run your code on the live server which helps you to test your code.
  • Improves collaboration in small teams
  • Provides IntelliSense and syntax based highlighting to minimize errors
  • Live testing is provided by Visual Studio which helps to test your code on its live server.
Cons
  • No Native debugger
  • No control over tools and environmental plugins
  • No backup solution
Visual Studio is well suited in keeping revision control for your source code. It helps you to test your code and deploy previous versions if needed. It provides features like IntelliSense and syntax based highlighting which makes it easier to code and can be considered as a favorite among coders. Your code can be controlled through Git or Subversion.

Visual Studio: The Swiss Army Knife for Coding

Rating: 10 out of 10
September 25, 2018
ER
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Visual Studio
14 years of experience
Visual 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
Cons
  • 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.
Visual Studio is well suited for: Developing console, system, mobile, or web applications using a cross-section of popular languages, with a special emphasis on C#. Managing resources in Azure or SQL Server databases. Automated, performance, and unit testing code. Code analytics (cyclomatic complexity, etc). Visual Studio is not as good at Proprietary programming languages with poor third-party support (EG, can't make a Swift app - you can make a Xamarin app on iOS). While one can use Visual Studio to write AI-integrated apps, actual data science applications wouldn't use Visual Studio (EG, not known for writing R applications).

Visual Studio = Awesome!

Rating: 10 out of 10
August 29, 2017
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Visual Studio
5 years of experience
Visual Studio is used in software departments where .NET projects are developed. It is being used to develop highly complex web applications with front-ends and API's for mobile. Visual Studio solves business problems by allowing everyone to use the same tool and having source control functions built into the software.
  • Look & Feel - Visual Studio has many customizations for the user interface. Light/Dark theme, font type/size, etc.
  • Extensions - Visual Studio offers many extensions for development of web, games, mobile that make life easier.
  • Source Control Built In - Whether you're using Git or TFS, Visual Studio's built in source control functionality eases the pain of working in a collaborative environment.
Cons
  • Sometimes slow - This is particularly the case for Visual Studio for Mac. Opening large solutions can take awhile.
  • In relation to Xamarin, there are quite a few issues with debugger connections that fail for Android and iOS.
Visual Studio is well suited for a wide variety of applications. Now, you can develop on Mac, or do Xamarin development in addition to web. It is a powerful application with many features and only a few small issues. It would be less appropriate for one off small projects where a less robust IDE will do.

Visual Studio still offers a rich IDE experience and keeps in healthy competition with my preferred IDE

Rating: 6 out of 10
March 02, 2020
AA
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Visual Studio
6 years of experience
I have used Visual Studio for all C#, ASP.NET, and even Classic ASP development over the past 10 years. Nowadays our team mostly uses Rider IDE but Visual Studio still remains installed for a few special use cases, where we want first-party IDE support.
  • Provides a smooth, efficient IDE for developing .NET applications.
  • Debugging tools are better than any other IDE I've used in the past.
  • Has a great selection of extensions, e.g Resharper and OzCode.
Cons
  • Visual Studio can be clunky and slow at times, much longer loading and building than Rider.
  • Having the manually save after becoming used to auto-saving and automatic local history is an annoyance and constant fear.
I would still recommend Visual Studio to anyone looking to do anything serious with .NET as an IDE if they have access to it, but for the most part, JetBrains Rider wins my recommendation. I think that if you're working on Windows-specific applications or some specific scenarios that VS supports, you have a use for it.

Visual Studio 2017 Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
November 25, 2018
GD
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Visual Studio
23 years of experience
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.
Cons
  • 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.
Visual Studio IDE basically does it all. From text editing with compilation during typing identifies potential syntax and other errors early. Compile errors are displayed and located in the source for easy fixes. Debugging features are very powerful but being able to debug live server code with Visual Studio Professional on non-Azure webs would be helpful.
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