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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
per month

Enterprise

$250.00

Cloud
per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/p…

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

FreeRTOS Tutorial 2: Task States Demo using Visual Studio 2019

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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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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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Easy to use tool, and powerful at the same time

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
April 12, 2019
Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology
Machinery Company, 10,001+ employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Visual Studio
13 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
  • Easy to use.
  • Many add-ons.
  • Platform integrated with the Cloud.
Cons
  • Too heavy to install.
  • Not created for database management.
  • Components are hard to install and always changing.
Likelihood to Recommend
It is best for all situations, for end-user products, or for internal applications in a company. Very easy to integrate into other platforms, and it is very quick to deploy solutions to be used. They have great support from Microsoft, and also by the community on the internet. Usually, it is good for creating a platform or even an add-on to applications.

Long-time Visual Studio IDE user

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
March 03, 2020
CH
Clay Horste
Software Developer III
Opus Solutions (Events Services, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Visual Studio
12 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
  • Full Stack Web Development
  • Legacy app compatibility
  • Working with a team on larger projects
  • Code completion/checking
  • Debugging
Cons
  • Can be slow at times
  • Learning curve can be daunting
  • Cost for some versions can be a challenge if you need the features
Likelihood to Recommend
If you are a full stack developer and like C# or VB.net, then Visual Studio IDE is definitely the way to go. Sure, you could go with VSCode or some other editor and make everything happen in the command line, but Visual Studio IDE makes most things much easier. Personally, I use both. 90% of the time, I am in Visual Studio IDE and then I keep Code open for various lightweight utility tasks that it is perfect for.

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

Rating: 10 out of 10
January 24, 2022
JB
Joan Brennan
Founder/CEO
Brennan Innovators, LLC (E-Learning, 1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Visual Studio
5 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
  • 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.
Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
Able to share information within our team now much more easily than previously when using Visual Studio. A user-friendly platform helps us save valuable time and effort as a group. Also, we are much more likely and earlier to consult with others on the team because of the use of Visual Studio.

Visual Studio Enterprise is the best for you best developers

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
August 02, 2018
GJ
Glenn Jones
Sr. Systems and Security Architect
Mathematica Policy Research (Research, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Visual Studio
14 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Visual 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.
Pros
  • 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.
Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
Visual Studio is a great tool for developing applications, either Windows-based or web-based. A company should, however, have at least one senior developer to help out more junior developers if they should get caught up trying to perform a complex task. We use Visual Studio to develop some very complex automation systems and have it to be quite useful and fully capable of performing the task.

Visual Studio Community from an accidentally developer perspective

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
June 15, 2018
Verified User
Technician in Information Technology
Telecommunications Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Visual Studio
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
In my specific team, I am the only "developer". The contact center solution that I support (Genesys PureConnect) has a robust C# API, libraries, and documentation so using Visual Studio for development of new integrations and debugging existing ones was just common sense because of the tight coupling with that specific language. The ease of configuring integration with GIT was also a driving factor in choosing to use VS as my C# IDE.
Pros
  • Visual studio has a lot of features included that you would expect to need external extensions for, like code snippets for quick completion of common programming syntax like constructors and properties (and many many more).
  • Visual Studio also has a vibrant community developing extensions for it that extend it well beyond its base functionality.
  • The debugging interface and your ability to interact with your code during debugged execution are fantastically helpful. I love being able to step back to a previous execution point and change data.
  • The ability to quickly and easily compile desktop apps.
Cons
  • System performance of Visual Studio leaves some room to be desired. I understand that it has a lot going on, but the system resource usage, load times and sometimes general responsiveness of VS leaves room to be desired.
Likelihood to Recommend
Visual studio is well suited for any programming language in the .net ecosystem. It is also fantastic for larger scale application development due to great integrations with team foundation server or various other repository/version control integrations that are available.

I would not recommend Visual studio if you are only doing small programs as the setup and load times can be "rapid prototyping" prohibitive, but that may also say a lot about your language choice for your activities.
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