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.