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Get Visual Studio IDE for that smooth development ride
March 27, 2017

Get Visual Studio IDE for that smooth development ride

Anwar Mohammed, PMP | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

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Enterprise

Overall Satisfaction with Visual Studio IDE

Visual Studio IDE is used primarily by the development group in our organization. Almost all development is in Microsoft and all developers have Visual Studio IDE installed by default on their computers for their work.
  • Development team are able to develop software for Web, mobile, server and desktop.
  • Languages - developers are free to develop with Visual Basic, C#, PHP, JavaScript, Visual C++ etc.
  • VS Online's set of tools makes it very easy for continuous integration across different platforms.
  • Language Support on Mac - JSON, CSS, HTML, Node.js — intellisense and autocomplete work. For other languages (eg PHP), only syntax highlighting is available.
  • Improved SQL Server data tools integration.
  • Reduced license costs (especially for non profits).
  • Seamless integrated development process has brought consistency and process in our SDLC, thereby reducing overall development costs.
  • Encouraged 'old school' folks to move on and update their skills with tools and languages.
  • Needed a lot of buy in from higher management to invest in these tools.
NetBeans was a tool that offered many features we were looking for our developers. It gave easy configuration options, to set programs in JAVA, HTML/5, PHP. Can be used for all OS, including Linux and Mac. Ended up with VS IDE due to superior features.
Since we are a Microsoft shop, it worked best for our development teams. We have a fully integrated process and it has worked like a charm. If it is a small shop (or as in our case, a non profit), then the cost of licenses could be a huge factor (as was the case with our org).