Visual Studio still offers a rich IDE experience and keeps in healthy competition with my preferred IDE
March 02, 2020
Visual Studio still offers a rich IDE experience and keeps in healthy competition with my preferred IDE
Score 6 out of 10
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Verified User
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Enterprise
Overall Satisfaction with Visual Studio IDE
I have used Visual Studio for all C#, ASP.NET, and even Classic ASP development over the past 10 years. Nowadays our team mostly uses Rider IDE but Visual Studio still remains installed for a few special use cases, where we want first-party IDE support.
Pros
- Provides a smooth, efficient IDE for developing .NET applications.
- Debugging tools are better than any other IDE I've used in the past.
- Has a great selection of extensions, e.g Resharper and OzCode.
Cons
- Visual Studio can be clunky and slow at times, much longer loading and building than Rider.
- Having the manually save after becoming used to auto-saving and automatic local history is an annoyance and constant fear.
- Slowness legitimately impacted performance and ultimately led us to purchase another product.
- Being .NET developers however we still keep it installed for those corner cases, so it still has a use.
Visual Studio was my preferred IDE before Rider became mature enough to replace it. Rider's performance, source control tools, and built-in refactoring make VS limited to specific use cases where Rider doesn't support.
Visual Studio still offers a rich IDE experience over other IDEs or code editors, such as refactoring, organization, source control, etc.
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?
No
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