TrustRadius Insights for Microsoft Visual Studio are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Live Coding Assistance Feature: Users have highly praised the live coding assistance feature in Visual Studio, emphasizing how it significantly enhances their coding experience by providing real-time support and guidance during the development process. This feature has been described as a valuable asset that improves productivity and code quality for many users.
Efficient Debugging Process: Reviewers consistently highlight the efficient debugging process in Visual Studio as a standout feature that allows them to swiftly identify and resolve issues within their codebase. The seamless debugging experience not only saves time but also boosts confidence in the reliability of their applications.
High-Quality Testing Tools: Users commend Visual Studio for its high-quality testing tools, noting how these robust features ensure that their code functions correctly and meets stringent standards. The comprehensive suite of testing capabilities integrated into the IDE streamlines the testing phase of development projects, contributing to overall efficiency and code accuracy.
We use Visual Studio Code in multiple areas of the business. Engineering team, the majority of us use the product and have come to use it often when we’re peer programming, too.
Pros
Peer programming.
Lots of plugins for eslint etc.
Layout of the files.
Cons
Too many buttons in one place sometimes. Learning curve is high.
Would be good to be able to export and import productivity tool setup.
Likelihood to Recommend
It is very good to be able to share your code in a peer programming session. Very good for building code. Setup is difficult if you lose all your productivity plugins, though.
Microsoft Visual Studio is the best IDE I ever used. I mainly work in javascript and react library. In Microsoft Visual Studio, we will get so many extensions which will save a lot of time in coding. Folder structures icons, and every month, getting updation from IDE, I liked the most.
Pros
Multiple coding extensions such as beautify
Automatically importing the files
Sonar qube extensions
Almost work in all the languages
Cons
Seems little slow IDE
Little difficult to use first time
Likelihood to Recommend
Beautify the code or formatting the code in Microsoft Visual Studio is very simple compared to other IDEs. Which month getting new features in the IDE. Save a lot of time for the developer providing different types of extensions.
VU
Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)
I use Visual Studio IDE for my C assembly and python codes. I also use it for git version control management. The Visual Studio IDE help me to get more insight of my code, in terms of how my code is structured and written. I use Visual Studio IDE in my daily work and also do Realtime debugging of my C++ code.
Pros
Debugging
Source code maintanance
Error handling mechanism in terms of building the solution.
Cons
If the existing source code do not have solution created, it is hard to link that folder with VS. We only can see the code , but cannot build it.
Not easy to define "user defied build rules" for our project. Empty Project option did not help everytime.
Nowadays, in latest versions of the Visual Studio IDE, it is hard to get speed of switching between two tabs or windows within one solution.
Likelihood to Recommend
The Visual Studio IDE is well suited for coding such as c++ to C# and beyond, like Java and Python. But when it comes to assembly code structure or C code, it becomes less flexible to use as well as not suitable environment for such code base. I hope we get some improvement in this area.
VU
Verified User
Former Employee in Research & Development (10,001+ employees)
Visual Studio Code is the preferred IDE for µServices development include Java Microservice. Best IDE for .Net core, NodeJS, Python and also Spring Boot coding with very friendly user interface and necessary extensions. Embedded debugging features and CI/CD Pipeline facilitators make day to day business easily and productive enough.
Pros
Coding
Marketplace extensions
Embedded CI/CD facilitators
Cons
Java Microservices
Team Coding
Gitlab integration
Likelihood to Recommend
Very well suited for Develop,Test, Deploy and Debug include all necessary DevOps lifecyle with docker, kubernetes and even OpenShift extensions. Best place for traditional and also cloud native development for many languages. Less suited or there is room for improvement about spring boot or quarkus development test and deployment.
We use Visual Studio IDE to make software that will be used with our product. We use the .Net framework with C# language. Visual Studio IDE is probably the best programming IDE we are using. We use it for more than 10 years and we plan to use it for another 10 years and beyond.
Pros
Easy to build software
Easy to debug our software
Intellisence is fine
Cons
Intellisense is good but can be improve
Sometime the IDE is freezing without reason
Likelihood to Recommend
If you want to make software in .Net, Visual Studio IDE is probably the best IDE available. All the tool you need is there. The debugging experience is very good too. I recommend using a third-party library if you want to make a rich user interface for your software. Overall, I recommend Visual Studio IDE if you want to program in C#.
VU
Verified User
Professional in Research & Development (11-50 employees)
Use it to help create educational applications for inside and outside the classroom. Develop literacy and reading productivity apps for K-12 and beyond. The use of Visual Studio helps us configure our applications to address the needs of a variety of challenged readers as well as readers in all age/ability groups who are required to read for long periods and may be overwhelmed by the amount of media needed to cover.
Pros
Allows for unique configurations within our app builds.
Allows for team sharing that is easier to manage.
Helps promote better team communication while saving valuable time, too.
Cons
Accessing the Visual Studio account more easily would be SO helpful.
Ongoing improvement in the Visual Studio's security will also be most appreciated, as many of our creators with IP for their applications are protective of that IP.
Likelihood to Recommend
Able to share information within our team now much more easily than previously when using Visual Studio. A user-friendly platform helps us save valuable time and effort as a group. Also, we are much more likely and earlier to consult with others on the team because of the use of Visual Studio.
It's one of the most effective Integrated Development Environments on the market. The best thing is how easy it is to integrate and have all of your products in one place. It contains tools and features that can improve the effectiveness, simplicity, and security of any software. The most significant advantage of Visual Studio IDE is that it supports many programming languages. If an error occurs while creating code, it provides a clear description of the mistake so it can be readily fixed.
Pros
I like how the tabs and panels are organized; everything is gathered together so you can find what you're looking for quickly.
If you can't find something, there's a thorough search engine that searches all of Visual Studio's features.
The Team Foundation Server feature is fantastic since it allows us to easily deploy and roll back changes on the server.
Cons
Visual Studio is good at debugging, however it can get stuck at times, requiring you to either stop debugging or restart Visual Studio.
The application is heavy and takes a long time to load.
Visual Studio has a wonderful UI, but it feels a little difficult, particularly for newcomers. This is a minor flaw, but it still feels like it could be better.
Likelihood to Recommend
It's useful for app development, debugging, and testing. I've been using it for two years and have seen it grow into a fantastic tool. All of the features, NuGet packages, and settings that enable different types of projects are fantastic. It also has a connection to Azure DevOps and Git. It's a fantastic product that's simple to use.
Visual Studio IDE is the heart of our organization, which we are using since 2015 to develop tools software for the other departments within our organization. Moreover, it provides a set of rich libraries to develop applications in different languages.it doesn't take much time to develop a rice UI application which saves the budget for our organization. Most of the time we got appreciated from the client for quick delivery of the projects.
Pros
Set of rich libraries for different languages.it is not stuck only with c# using this you can write code in other languages also.
Code debugging is very simple and accurate.
Creation of class library and executable files are awesome features.
Inbuilt IIS hosting is great features to host your application.
Cons
Visual studio initial load takes quite longer to setup your projects.
Taking time to install and uninstall the application.
Likelihood to Recommend
If you are developing your application which will run in windows application operating system.
Development of standalone application in malls to read barcodes of the product to get the price.
If you are using windows authentication then it will get configured with minimum effort.
Less appropriate- if you to run your code in mac or Linux.
Visual Studio IDE is used by the developer cell of my organization. The best thing about Visual Studio IDE is it is easy to use and user friendly. There are number of plugins available, and all of them are awesome. I have been using this product for more than four years now, and the support community actively helps me every time if i get stuck somewhere. This product is fully modifiable--you can chose your environment, you can add your snippets easily, plus it has an integrated terminal that helps a lot while testing and developing products. You can also share screens and code with your team very easily.
Pros
Having a number of extensions
Easily modify settings; can add snippets very easily
Works with every programming language
Everything is integrated, from terminal to image viewer and pdf viewer
Cons
Select text and create snippets
Understanding unnecessary code
Making more interactive IDE
Likelihood to Recommend
Any product-based company or learners/students should use this product. Its free and amazing.
Visual Studio IDE is used by my department, not [the] whole organization. It is used to develop web applications which are being used by our whole organization to visualize data. There are many business problems which we deal [with] in my organization. Users need to visualize data on their desktops. For that they need to install a Windows application on their machine which was really very time consuming and difficult for every user. Rather, we developed a web application for them so that they could view data on a web application which we built using Visual Studio IDE which gave us large inbuilt functionalities like web applications, windows applications, windows services, [etc.]
Another business problem was that my organization needs a survey from lots of people from different regions and different ages across the world. Earlier they used to take the survey on page and then reconcile them after putting [in a] lot of effort and time. It used to take lots of time to get results of the survey, but we designed a Web Application in VS IDE using .Net framework which gave us a lot of in built functionality to create a dynamic web site and using html and Jquery designed a user friendly web page to fill the survey and get the results on a click button which was a fast and efficient way of taking the survey.
Pros
Live coding assistance
Fast debugging
High quality testing
Cons
Depending on [the] project, it [may] freeze and crash
Sometimes performance is slow
Technical support
Likelihood to Recommend
Visual Studio IDE is well suited when you have to use C# and .NET coding language. It is also suited when you have to create big projects for your organization as it can handle and maintain big projects.
It is not suited with other languages like Java Framework.
