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Visual Studio is the Rolls Royce under the IDE's
January 27, 2020

Visual Studio is the Rolls Royce under the IDE's

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

Software Version

Professional

Overall Satisfaction with Visual Studio IDE

Our company has 40+ websites, 30+ stand-alone applications, 80+ web APIs and 25+ Windows services and we use Visual Studio as our main developing tool. It is used by a team of 8 to 15 very experienced employees on a daily basis. It's the premium tool, the single most important tool, to drive all IT development.
  • Debugging: no other tool can debug so thoroughly as Visual Studio
  • Integration through NuGet: extremely easy
  • Integration with devops (GIT) is cumbersome. Very buggy. Complains very often, where other tools solve the issue effortlessly.
  • Lately it nags about wanting you to implement "Application insights". I can't make it clear that I don't want it. Ever.
  • Speed of development.
  • Speed of finding and solving bugs.
No added value. If Visual Studio costs too much then I see the point. But otherwise there is just no need for any other tool. IntelliJ is a mess, buggy and counter intuitive. Or maybe it's because java is not a particularly cool language...
MSDN is the worst thing ever written. Ever since the start of .NET it gives bloated information, without giving the correct, precise, and especially concise answer. However, there is not a single question unanswered on the internet through other channels, like Stack Overflow. I've yet to search any longer than 2 minutes to find an answer to any question I may have regarding the language (C#) or the tool itself.

Do you think Microsoft Visual Studio delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Microsoft Visual Studio's feature set?

Yes

Did Microsoft Visual Studio live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Microsoft Visual Studio go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Microsoft Visual Studio again?

Yes

Less appropriate: javascript development. I know it's not a core responsibility, but it would make life easier. GIT integration should be made less buggy. Right now we use other tools for GIT only because Visual Studio keeps giving errors after intense use with multiple developers working on the same branch.

Best suited for: Web API, backend development, Windows services, testing and debugging.