Great all purpose IDE well suited for development on the Microsoft Stack
January 18, 2018
Great all purpose IDE well suited for development on the Microsoft Stack
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Professional
Overall Satisfaction with Visual Studio IDE
The Visual Studio development environment is used across our engineering team. It is what this team is using to build our code base. In addition to using it to create and compile source code, we are also using it to run unit tests. With the Visual Studio IDE we can all do this from one place.
- Unit test management
- Overall interface is generally nice and easy to use
- Solution Explorer makes it easy to navigate your code
- Performance can lag at times. This has gotten better over time but can sometimes be an issue.
- A large number of configuration settings and options. This can be a bit overwhelming to a new user.
- Integration with GitHub is nice but could use a few usability improvements.
- General speed of coding in Visual Studio is good and accelerates our engineer's development
- Making it easy to run and execute unit tests has improved our code quality
- Integrates well with our build system, so we can provide product updates to the rest of the company in a quick timeframe.
- Visual Studio Code and Xcode
Visual Studio IDE is mainly oriented to the Microsoft programming stack, which is what I was using.. so Visual Studio IDE was a natural fit. Visual Studio Code is very nice and is a pretty well performing application but it wasn't as well suited for large solution files, which we are using.