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Visual Studio IDE for a Software Developer
October 10, 2017

Visual Studio IDE for a Software Developer

Robert Burgh | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Enterprise

Overall Satisfaction with Visual Studio IDE

We use Visual Studio IDE for our .net development. We develop primarily using Microsoft and third-party tools/controls. Our company's offerings are delivered to thousands of companies in our market. The need to have multiple developers being able to fork and then merge code is very important for having a single codebase for each of our products. We are currently starting to take advantage of the new Visual Studio for Mac. With the .net core we look forward to multi-platform deployments.
  • The ability to add extensions and plug-ins. The integration of third party controls.
  • The ability to connect to multiple source control methods.
  • The ability to tweak the interface based on the stack.
  • Simplification of the options, however the issue goes along with having many options.
  • The ability to have multiple publishing profiles in effect concurrently.
  • Allow a "Stack" choice for screen layout for developers that need to develop in different types of projects.
  • We use it for developing our offerings, the ROI is there.
  • VS has improved greatly over the years.
  • Mono
Visual Studio IDE is much more robust.
It is very well suited for just about any stack development. The only area that I don't jump to it is for very basic HTML or CSS coding on very simple pages. For .net core the Visual Studio Code product is a good option for "quick work", but is able to handle large work as well.