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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
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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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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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Customizable and productivity tools galore!

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
December 17, 2024
Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Marketing & Advertising Company, 201-500 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Visual Studio
6 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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, too.
Pros
  • Peer programming.
  • Lots of plugins for eslint etc.
  • Layout of the files.
Cons
  • Too many buttons in one place sometimes. Learning curve is high.
  • Would be good to be able to export and import productivity tool setup.
Likelihood to Recommend
It is very good to be able to share your code in a peer programming session. Very good for building code. Setup is difficult if you lose all your productivity plugins, though.
Return on Investment
  • Easy to create new components to copy and paste from another file.
  • Fast and easy to debug.
  • Good when it has plugins that will help with productivity.
Usability
10
Very customizable and very easy to use once set up.
Alternatives Considered
For beginners, the other tools are easier to set up and run. It is also entirely customizable, but Visual Studio Code has more plugins that allow you to streamline your work.
Other Software Used
Sublime Text, Notion

Visual Studio, a well evolved IDE.

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
April 05, 2017
JP
John P. Maher
Senior Programmer
Rotair Industries (Airlines/Aviation, 11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Visual Studio
9 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Visual Studio is used to streamline or automate business processes. For example, most recently the secretary needed to send out some "Welcome Packets." To do this she needed to make mailing labels. Instead of have her enter each address, using Visual Studio I created a program to allow her to retrieve the addresses then print directly to an envelope greatly increasing the efficiency of the task. Nearly every department can benefit in some way.
Pros
  • The object browser and intellisense simplify finding the method or property needed.
  • The capability of creating a vertical selection can really increase the efficiency of the find and replace.
  • To be able to use the alt key to enter characters not available on the keyboard allows the selection of a delimiter guaranteed not to be in the user input.
  • Even though the current version is much more robust than earlier versions, occasionally it can crash. The auto recover feature proves invaluable in these situations.
  • Customizing the IDE works really well with the ability to not only dock to any edge but also to dock to a tabbed container. This allows frequently used windows to remain visible while allowing other windows that are sometimes needed to be combined into a tabbed window.
  • The most recent projects not only speeds opening of frequently used projects but also can help determine which version was the last one edited when working with multiple versions.
  • When dealing with a complex form the Document Outline can not only help to find hidden or lost controls but also view the hierarchy at a glance.
  • The ability to encapsulate groups of functions into collapsible regions can really help when working on large code bases.
  • With the editable toolbar, any frequently used menu item can be directly placed for immediate access.
  • The tabbed text editing window can make debugging easier especially when stepping through code in different assemblies and languages.
Cons
  • The C# IDE can use a little more automation. The VB IDE does a lot quite well to speed development. While C# can not benefit in all these areas there are some places where it can definitely be more helpful. For example, there is no reason to leave an event handler assignment in the designer if it is deleted from the code. All this does is force the developer to stop their train of thought to go to the designer and delete the single line of code in order to continue their test.
  • In the most recent programs include a path with the name.
  • Add an option to make external assemblies read-only. There have been times when I forget what project I am in when working on multiple assemblies. I can make a change to code that is not in the current assembly, so of course, compiling it does nothing. Unfortunately this error may not be noticed until the program is run and the old code still executes. This is easily fixed by (saving the changes if not using the auto save feature) going to the correct instance of the IDE, reloading then compiling but I would prefer avoiding this in the first place.
Likelihood to Recommend
Visual Studio works really well when code is encapsulated in separate dlls. Not only can you step through every line, no matter how many dlls deep but it makes it easy to work with dlls in different languages. You can build your forms in VB and your data manager in C# while stepping through any of them in the same IDE.
Return on Investment
  • Works well for me.
Alternatives Considered
I have used NetBeans but it is hard to compare since Visual Studio is more powerful due to its Windows specific nature and more evolved.
Other Software Used
Users and Roles
1
Visual Studio is strictly used by IT.
Support Headcount Required
1
Due to Visual Studio's nature, only developers are involved (and developers are the only people who would want to be involved) with its use.
Business Processes Supported
  • Improve business processes.
  • Save employees time.
  • Reduce errors in tasks
Innovative Uses
  • Due to its nature, there isn't really any other use for Visual Studio than developing software.
Future Planned Uses
  • As the business evolves new software can be written to help this process stay as efficient as possible.
Likelihood to Renew
10
It is the best tool for the job.
Premium Support
No
Support Rating
5
The support consists of a forum. The problem with the forum is the categories are poorly designed and only reflect a subset of reality. So often you need to put a specific question in a general section. What makes this bad is your question gets reviewed by only the people who feel like it (it seems). If someone with knowledge of your issue sees your question you are in luck. If not, time to look elsewhere.
Bug Resolution
Yes
I did report a bug and it was investigated and it turned out I was mistaken in how I believed the feature should work.
Easy Tasks
  • Designing forms is well done.
  • The text editing area supports all the common Shift- and Ctrl- arrow keys, page down, page up, end and home functions.
Difficult Tasks
  • Trying to debug a designer file can be difficult since the error messages are usually poor.
Usability
9
The thing I like the most is Visual Studio doesn't suffer from Microsoft's over eager marketing department who feel they need to redesign the UI (think Office and windows) which forces users to loose large amounts of productivity having to learn software that they had previously known.
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