Visual Studio is great at what it is designed to do
August 29, 2017

Visual Studio is great at what it is designed to do

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

We use Visual Studio IDE in many departments across our company. We use it for developing, managing source code, and some teams use it to deploy their code. It is a great tool to help with productivity in writing .net code as it will help our employees to resolve some dependencies as well as give code completion suggestions that are very helpful. It can be used to both managing small projects as well as very large projects and does a good job with both.
  • Code Completion with C#.
  • Creating the initial projects for .net programs.
  • Helping to manague nuget packages within projects and keep track of them.
  • Debugging .net code fantastic.
  • Very large and with that slower load times, install times, and memory footprint.
  • 80-90 percent of our code is written with .NET so you could attribute that to productivity gained with Visual Studio.
I feel like the capabilites of Visual Studio are far and away better than any other offerings I have used. The debugging, compiling, and general polished state of Visual Studio just seems to be better than any other IDEs like it.
Visual Studio IDE is most well suited when you are creating a .Net program. It could either be desktop, online, or APIs.

It is less appropriate for writing code that isn't .NET specific, but it can even handle code files that aren't specific to the .NET framework. Writing a java app with Visual Studio would be one of those situations that you probably wouldn't want to use Visual Studio.