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Microsoft Visual Studio IDE (Enterprise) is a great tool for medium to large businesses
February 27, 2020

Microsoft Visual Studio IDE (Enterprise) is a great tool for medium to large businesses

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

Software Version

Enterprise

Overall Satisfaction with Visual Studio IDE

Being a part of a software engineering team we use this tool in order to maintain and create software needed by the business. It allows our team to have access to a suite of tools required to create the software, test the software, protect software source control, and deploy the software out to many environments for use by our customers.
  • Build Web and Cloud applications for free.
  • Large selection of development languages, i.e. Visual Basic, C#, PHP, Objective-C, JavaScript and Visual C++.
  • Heavyweight tool that can feel overwhelming or confusing when first using it.
  • Learning curve of the IDE can be daunting for beginning programmers.
  • Quicker code turnaround and reviewing with GIT integration.
  • Forces our coding standards so we can make sure the team is similar styles.
Visual Studio Code is a very nice lightweight IDE (if you can call it that), that can be used at types of business (small to large). However, since you have to trust the sources of your plugins it can be a little more nerve-wracking at larger businesses to use this tool. Also, out of the box, compared to Visual Studio IDE you don't have a lot of those tools available. You really have to go add everything you need and or want to VS Code to get it into a place where you can use it for business needs. Visual Studio IDE out of the box has a better initial setup and more integrations into cloud, web, and desktop use that probably meets more business needs right away with less fuss and setup.
You can pretty much search anything about Visual Studio IDE on the internet and find an answer. If that doesn't meet your needs, Microsoft has a plethora of help guides and information about the IDE and tools on MSDN or other help guides they have written. Depending on your IDE level you have access to customer support that can also answer your questions and guide you.

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?

Yes

Did implementation of Microsoft Visual Studio go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Microsoft Visual Studio again?

Yes

Since Microsoft offers many tiers of this IDE it really could be suited for a single home developer all the way up to enterprise. It does offer a lot of use cases at every entry point. However, if you are an individual developer doing advanced work Visual Studio IDE may not be a good tool because of the cost required. I would point small businesses towards Visual Studio Code instead because it is an open-source supported community and allows you to do some really advanced level development across a suite of coding styles. Visual Studio IDE is going to be better suited for medium to large teams where standards have been established, you use the .Net Frameworks and you want to enforce coding, testing, and building policies.