Microsoft Visual Studio - great IDE for .NET development
January 20, 2026

Microsoft Visual Studio - great IDE for .NET development

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Visual Studio

Microsoft Visual Studio is being used for several years now and we do it for application development in several languages and stack (ASP.net core, C# etc.). It's great for any developer to have an unified platform for development where you can design your front end, backend, have SQL support etc. One great feature is the intellisense and the popup suggestion that comes if any error has happened. In our organisation, we use Microsoft Visual Studio for almost all development projects.

Pros

  • Intellisense - telling what you might want to type
  • Debugging
  • On error - suggesting probable solution
  • Help files / online forums

Cons

  • debugging in front end development could be better
  • AI driven Drag and drop Design based development can be looked at
  • Video tutorials can be expanded
  • Since we are using this for several years, it's difficult to compare to a situation where we were not using it. But overall, ROI improvement > 30%
  • Time spent (productivity) less by 40-50% (compared to a situation when we are not using it)
  • We are using it for almost all development. Case of using something else is almost NIL now.
Developer friendly, easy to debug backend, good support on debugging in migration (DBcontext), easy to explore and run SQL, easy to add external packages. If you have developed and now trying to explore the efficiency improvement paradigm, this tool does a great job there. We usually go through the process to make production more latency free.
Eclipse is also very good but it's more suitable for Java development. Our requirement is more towards .Net, C# and hence Microsoft Visual Studio works well for us. If your primary requirement is Java and cross platform, Eclipse works well. But our specific requirement makes little sense to go there. VS works well for us.

Do you think Microsoft Visual Studio delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Microsoft Visual Studio's feature set?

Yes

Did Microsoft Visual Studio live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Microsoft Visual Studio go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Microsoft Visual Studio again?

Yes

If you are developing something for long term/ client basis in a professional environment Microsoft Visual Studio is the go to tool. If you are doing something for school project, just for fun, you may try various online AI tools. But the moment more professional rigor is required, Microsoft Visual Studio shines way better.

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