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The go-to IDE for Microsoft platform development
May 09, 2018

The go-to IDE for Microsoft platform development

Sean Worle | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Enterprise

Overall Satisfaction with Visual Studio IDE

My company is primarily a Microsoft shop. Our development is mostly in C# and SQL, with version control and project management done in TFS. As such, Visual Studio is our go-to primary development tool across our IT department. There is no question that if you are doing development for Microsoft platforms, Visual Studio may not be the only game in town, but it is the undisputed leader.
  • Code management
  • Debugging
  • Version control integration
  • Extensibility
  • Unit testing
  • Handling merge conflicts can be tricky and confusing, though it's hard to tell if this is a failing of Visual Studio or TFS.
  • Visual Studio is our primary development platform. I spend probably 90% of my day in Visual Studio.
If you are developing for a Microsoft platform (Windows, Windows Phone, Azure, etc.), then Visual Studio is unquestionably the premier tool to choose. It can be used for other development (and there are many extensions which allow for support of lots of different languages and compilers in Visual Studio). However, it's probably not the first choice for other kinds of development unless your organization already has it for doing Microsoft development. In that case, using the same IDE for all development can be nice.