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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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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, 2024
Visual Studio True Review
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified 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 data. There are many business problems which we deal [with] in my organization. Users need to visualize data on their desktops. For that they need to install a Windows application on their machine which was really very time consuming and difficult for every user. Rather, we developed a web application for them so that they could view data on a web application which we built using Visual Studio IDE which gave us large inbuilt functionalities like web applications, windows applications, windows services, [etc.]
Another business problem was that my organization needs a survey from lots of people from different regions and different ages across the world. Earlier they used to take the survey on page and then reconcile them after putting [in a] lot of effort and time. It used to take lots of time to get results of the survey, but we designed a Web Application in VS IDE using .Net framework which gave us a lot of in built functionality to create a dynamic web site and using html and Jquery designed a user friendly web page to fill the survey and get the results on a click button which was a fast and efficient way of taking the survey.
Another business problem was that my organization needs a survey from lots of people from different regions and different ages across the world. Earlier they used to take the survey on page and then reconcile them after putting [in a] lot of effort and time. It used to take lots of time to get results of the survey, but we designed a Web Application in VS IDE using .Net framework which gave us a lot of in built functionality to create a dynamic web site and using html and Jquery designed a user friendly web page to fill the survey and get the results on a click button which was a fast and efficient way of taking the survey.
- Live coding assistance
- Fast debugging
- High quality testing
- Depending on [the] project, it [may] freeze and crash
- Sometimes performance is slow
- Technical support
December 23, 2022
Perfect IDE for the front end developer
Score 9 out of 10
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Microsoft Visual Studio is the best IDE I ever used. I mainly work in javascript and react library. In Microsoft Visual Studio, we will get so many extensions which will save a lot of time in coding. Folder structures icons, and every month, getting updation from IDE, I liked the most.
- Multiple coding extensions such as beautify
- Automatically importing the files
- Sonar qube extensions
- Almost work in all the languages
- Seems little slow IDE
- Little difficult to use first time
October 10, 2022
Visual Studio IDE Review
Score 7 out of 10
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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 .
- Availability of Extensions
- Compatibility with Git
- Easy settings
- Better Technical Support
- Hard to find the right option
- Disk space occupied is large
October 04, 2022
Visual Studio IDE
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified 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 friendly user interface and necessary extensions. Embedded debugging features and CI/CD Pipeline facilitators make day to day business easily and productive enough.
- Coding
- Marketplace extensions
- Embedded CI/CD facilitators
- Java Microservices
- Team Coding
- Gitlab integration
January 24, 2022
Visual Studio IDE helps increase our team's productivity while saving valuable time, too!
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified 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 Studio helps us configure our applications to address the needs of a variety of challenged readers as well as readers in all age/ability groups who are required to read for long periods and may be overwhelmed by the amount of media needed to cover.
- Allows for unique configurations within our app builds.
- Allows for team sharing that is easier to manage.
- Helps promote better team communication while saving valuable time, too.
- Accessing the Visual Studio account more easily would be SO helpful.
- Ongoing improvement in the Visual Studio's security will also be most appreciated, as many of our creators with IP for their applications are protective of that IP.
September 29, 2021
The most effective coding software
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
It's one of the most effective Integrated Development Environments on the market. The best thing is how easy it is to integrate and have all of your products in one place. It contains tools and features that can improve the effectiveness, simplicity, and security of any software. The most significant advantage of Visual Studio IDE is that it supports many programming languages. If an error occurs while creating code, it provides a clear description of the mistake so it can be readily fixed.
- I like how the tabs and panels are organized; everything is gathered together so you can find what you're looking for quickly.
- If you can't find something, there's a thorough search engine that searches all of Visual Studio's features.
- The Team Foundation Server feature is fantastic since it allows us to easily deploy and roll back changes on the server.
- Visual Studio is good at debugging, however it can get stuck at times, requiring you to either stop debugging or restart Visual Studio.
- The application is heavy and takes a long time to load.
- Visual Studio has a wonderful UI, but it feels a little difficult, particularly for newcomers. This is a minor flaw, but it still feels like it could be better.
June 23, 2021
Visual Studio IDE--free and amazing
Score 9 out of 10
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Visual Studio IDE is used by the developer cell of my organization. The best thing about Visual Studio IDE is it is easy to use and user friendly. There are number of plugins available, and all of them are awesome. I have been using this product for more than four years now, and the support community actively helps me every time if i get stuck somewhere. This product is fully modifiable--you can chose your environment, you can add your snippets easily, plus it has an integrated terminal that helps a lot while testing and developing products. You can also share screens and code with your team very easily.
- Having a number of extensions
- Easily modify settings; can add snippets very easily
- Works with every programming language
- Everything is integrated, from terminal to image viewer and pdf viewer
- Select text and create snippets
- Understanding unnecessary code
- Making more interactive IDE
Visual Studio is our everyday workhorse. If we're not using Microsoft Office or SQL Server Management Studio then we're in Visual Studio. We use Visual Studio to develop Web Forms, Web Services, back-end Service libraries, and now we use it for all our client-side JavaScript, AngularJS, and Angular development. Instead of using one tool for the front-end and an different tool for the back-end, Visual Studio provides us with a broad scope of features so that it's the only real development tool we need.
- Debugging client-side JavaScript is so easy in Visual Studio. Other IDEs such as Jet Brains WebStorm provide some form of debugging, but noting is easier than Visual Studio. In particular, its the only tool that lets me put a break point in client-side script and walk the HTTP request into a Web API and back.
- With other lighter-weight tools, even Visual Studio Code, you have to dig around to find the right way to include 3rd party libraries or frameworks into your code. With Visual Studio NuGet is always handy since its built-in to the IDE. The other nice feature is after you add a package through NuGet, it searches your code and alerts you to other packages that might need upgrading.
- Our company uses Team Foundation Server for source control and using the Visual Studio IDE makes it completely transparent. Its so simple to bring down a fresh copy of your code, check-in a file or compare versions of a file.
- While we use the Enterprise edition, it's great that Microsoft offers a slimmed-down community edition for others. This makes it easier for college students to get familiar with the Visual Studio IDE for free and then later makes it easier to transition over to the Professional or Enterprise Editions when they enter the business world.
- Because AngularJS and Angular have taken the development world nearly overnight, it would be great if Microsoft updated Visual Studio to provide better support for debugging Angular and AngularJS code. Years ago, a free third-party plug-in existed called Batarang which helped developers see the contents of Angular object. Unfortunately, as Google moved forward in development this tool was ultimately broken. Visual Studio lacks real support for providing debugging tools for Google's popular front-end framework.
- Software developers are either C# or Visual Basic developers...though its rare to find a VB person anymore. Unfortunately, the Visual Studio IDE never lets you choose which of the two language to install. As a C# developer it really would be great if I could tell the installation module to not install VB or its project libraries.
- The code snippet feature in Visual Studio needs upgrading and wizards so it becomes a first class citizen in the IDE. Visual Studio would become so much more useful if I could right-click snippets of code and with a single click tell the IDE to add them to my snippets library. This would kick off a wizard that could help me edit the snippet to make it more reusable. Today if you want to use the Snippet Editor you really have to dig around the web to figure out how to make it work for you.
January 28, 2021
Visual Studio IDE? Essential for a Microsoft Shop.
Visual Studio IDE is used primarily by our Software Developers and Architects. Our Testers use Microsoft Test Manager, and most of our other SDLC roles (Project Managers, Design Managers, Business Analysts, etc.) use the Team Foundation Server web interface. Visual Studio is necessary for coding, version control, build administration, and access to other tools. It is a more robust interface than what TFS Web offers, and many of the features provided in the Visual Studio IDE that aren't present in the TFS Web are essential to the duties of those roles.
- One-stop development shop. Centralized location for all development-related tools and workflow.
- Continue work offline, disconnected from the network if needed.
- More robust build administration than what is offered on the web
- Certain settings and features can sometimes be challenging to locate. The interface isn't always intuitive.
- Sometimes there are too many ways to do the same thing. For example, users can quickly add a new workspace in Source Control Explorer when a local path shows as "Not Mapped," but it doesn't indicate that the user might want to check the dropdown list of workspaces. The shortcut of creating a new workspace by clicking on the "Not Mapped" link can lead to developers creating too many workspaces and causing workspace management to become unwieldy. If the shortcut link were removed, the user would be forced to use the Workspace dropdown. While it can add an extra step to the process, workspaces would be managed more easily, and this would enforce consistency. At the very least, there should be a high-level administrative setting to hide the shortcut link.
January 12, 2021
Visual Studio is a powerful IDE
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.
- Great IntelliSense
- Easy-to-use interface
- Standardization of development environment among team
- 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
May 27, 2020
Total solution for developers
Visual Studio is an all-in-one package for software developers. Our team uses it for developing computer software, mobile apps and web based software. Normally we use rad model to complete our project, because we have to deliver projects with fast and correct, Visual Studio given more support to suss it. Mainly IT department uses this software, but as an education and tanning providing company, our academic department also uses for teaching process. We have in-house developed student management system, payroll, inventory control system, and HR system. [They] help to increase company efficiency.
- Error finding and debugging.
- Number of extensions for customize our IDE.
- User friendly interface with dark and light mood.
- Rich toolbox for interface design.
- High memory use.
- Long startup time.
- Cost is higher than other developing case tools.
April 19, 2020
Super Powerful IDE for your .Net (and more) needs
Our .Net team uses Visual Studio IDE as their tool to build .Net web applications, APIs and do light interface work with Azure resources. Since the IDE provides a complete development environment, it makes it easy to build, test, debug, and deploy code into a wide variety of environments with ease.
- Debugging
- Performance tracking
- Code insights
- Performance
- Integrations
- Deployments
March 20, 2020
My experiences in Visual Studio IDE
We use the Visual Studio IDE to develop mobile applications, develop Web applications, and write web services. As a team in the software development department, we follow the codes we write both through GitHub and the Visual Studio IDE. In the education sector, we are developing mobile applications where students can receive written and visual training. Using the frameworks in the Visual Studio IDE, we develop an efficient and effective application.
- The entity frameworks offered by mobile application developers produce highly efficient results.
- The Visual Studio IDE tool with which we write code is very fast and has a user-friendly display
- Initially, problems with GitHub integration may occur. It can be difficult for all members of the team to get involved in the project via GitHub.
- I think it is quite successful in such operations as rearranging, renaming variables as smart, converting one or more lines of code into a new method, changing the order of method parameters.
- The Quick Launch search box, called "Quick Launch," allows us to find everything we need in Visual Studio quickly.
- Linux environments do not provide as much performance as windows systems. In addition to this, we need to check the configuration at the beginning of the manual need to do
March 03, 2020
Long-time Visual Studio IDE user
We use Visual Studio IDE across our entire organization as our primary development platform. Visual Studio has become a great way to develop software for most platforms that we target. The beauty of Visual Studio is the way it handles legacy applications. We have been updating and modernizing a lot of apps recently and combining the ability to work with apps written 10 or more years ago with programmability has made the work much simpler.
- Full Stack Web Development
- Legacy app compatibility
- Working with a team on larger projects
- Code completion/checking
- Debugging
- Can be slow at times
- Learning curve can be daunting
- Cost for some versions can be a challenge if you need the features
March 02, 2020
Visual Studio still offers a rich IDE experience and keeps in healthy competition with my preferred IDE
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.
- 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.
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
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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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.
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.