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A Great Windows Software IDE
January 18, 2018

A Great Windows Software IDE

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Professional

Overall Satisfaction with Visual Studio IDE

It is used in our development group. Our client application is written in C# and we utilize Team Services along with Visual Studio for source code control. It allows easy integration with Visual Studio Online to show fixes to bugs and other changes within the source code while editing.
  • It is the best IDE for developing software utilizing Microsoft technologies.
  • The IDE has many integrations to other Microsoft services in order to help increase development and testing productivity.
  • The IDE will has many wizard class builders that will generate code for you.
  • Visual Studio is very sluggish when dealing with XAML.
  • Visual Studio can take a very long time to open large projects.
  • The Visual Studio install is very large and can take a lot of disk space.
  • Using Visual Studio has kept development productivity high.
  • We have lost some productivity due to the way Microsoft licenses Visual Studio and waiting for license to propagate within Microsoft's licensing servers to get new developer on the system.
  • We do have to buy more powerful development desktops in order to have Visual Studio be as responsive as we like.
Visual Studio is better than NetBeans or Eclipse when writing software that will only run on a Windows OS. I would not recommend Visual Studio for writing software running on other OSs.
Visual Studio would be my only choice when developing software to run specifically on a Windows OS. All of the integrations to other Microsoft technologies greatly increase development and testing productivity.