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Visual Studio IDE -- great development tool
March 27, 2019

Visual Studio IDE -- great development tool

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Overall Satisfaction with Visual Studio IDE

My department uses Visual Studio IDE for C# development, and in some instances, for SQL development as well. We're currently using the 2017 version with an eye on the 2019 launch, but likely we won't switch to that for a little while yet. Visual Studio IDE 2017 is an excellent tool for C# development for desktop clients, server (backend), and web development.
  • Great for running unit tests on code.
  • Great for compiling/running C#.
  • Great for web, desktop, and database development.
  • It's come quite a long way, but there are still some performance issues if you add extensions like ReSharper (though that's more JetBrains' issue than Visual Studio's).
  • If you aren't careful, you may end up enabling refactor-on-save if you play with some of the settings (found this out the hard way -- easy to undo, but be careful).
  • It makes it easier to stick to best practices for software development as a team.
Sublime Text and JetBrains Rider are both great tools, but neither one is developed enough to provide the environment we need right now for software development. Visual Studio IDE lets us debug, create and run unit tests, do performance tweaking and fine-tuning, and program for multiple platforms (32bit and 64bit, etc).
Visual Studio IDE is great for software development, particularly web and desktop. If you include Team Foundation, it's great for collaborative work as well. Node.js integrates pretty nicely with it at this point, in my limited experience, and it's not difficult to add third-party tools like Telerik (kendo, for web), either. NuGet makes it easy to add other libraries to projects, too.