Visual Studio - one stop place for developers
Updated November 29, 2017
Visual Studio - one stop place for developers
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Professional
Overall Satisfaction with Visual Studio IDE
Visual Studio is our main development tool [that has been] used for years. We started with .NET 1.0 and always tend to use the latest framework available including latest VS version. For more than 15 years we tried other IDE tools but always returned to Visual Studio. All development is done using VS and that will stay in the future.
All our products are built with help of Visual Studio.
Of course, the minus part is the price that you have to pay but on the other side, benefits are worth it.
All our products are built with help of Visual Studio.
Of course, the minus part is the price that you have to pay but on the other side, benefits are worth it.
- Integrated environment, one stop place for developers. Everything what we needed to start development is included.
- Possibility to extend it via add-ons. You need something just import it and it will work nicely.
- Good debugging capabilities.
- With the lastest SP, I had challenges - without any action the CPU utilization was exploding. Room for improvement - fix rare issues faster and so developers don't have to wait. By the way, this problem is resolved with the latest SP.
- Price.
- Might need strong hardware.
- Space to install it.
- Sometimes crashes when using Xamarin.
- Visual Studio helps us be more productive in developing commercial products. Without it, I doubt that we would have development speed like now.
- On the other side, if you have a 10 developers investment, for small companies, it's also what we are going to feel.
- One stop place for developers. You do not need to search for an additional tool to do development.
We tried Eclipse and, tons of years ago, some other open source products but none were even close to Visual Studio. Since, at least, for 10 years we have used Visual Studio exclusively. Fully integrated environment, support for tons of languages, compared to other IDE tools, Visual Studio is Swiss Army knife. For us, it's a one and only tool.