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.
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Visual Studio Reviews
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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.
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.
Our company uses mostly Linux based tech, but from time-to-time, we do arrive at Windows-based tasks. In those cases, using Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code are our main tools for tackling problems. Mostly used for C# and C++ codes, sometimes TypeScript, we use Visual Studio as a reliable, modern, and highly valuable IDE.
Pros
Windows-based programming tools
.NET go-to developing instrument
Well structured, easy-to-use interface
Cons
Has a steep learning curve
Intellisense is sometimes a bit annoying for me
Likelihood to Recommend
[Depending] on the task, I would probably recommend Visual Studio for anybody, who would like to use a professional IDE and comes from a Windows-based environment. Maybe there are better tools for specific tasks, but for developing .NET projects, or windows based applications, or maybe educational purposes, Visual Studio is a stable candidate to provide a good utility belt for any programming task.
We use Visual Studio IDE across our entire organization as our primary development platform. Visual Studio has become a great way to develop software for most platforms that we target. The beauty of Visual Studio is the way it handles legacy applications. We have been updating and modernizing a lot of apps recently and combining the ability to work with apps written 10 or more years ago with programmability has made the work much simpler.
Pros
Full Stack Web Development
Legacy app compatibility
Working with a team on larger projects
Code completion/checking
Debugging
Cons
Can be slow at times
Learning curve can be daunting
Cost for some versions can be a challenge if you need the features
Likelihood to Recommend
If you are a full stack developer and like C# or VB.net, then Visual Studio IDE is definitely the way to go. Sure, you could go with VSCode or some other editor and make everything happen in the command line, but Visual Studio IDE makes most things much easier. Personally, I use both. 90% of the time, I am in Visual Studio IDE and then I keep Code open for various lightweight utility tasks that it is perfect for.
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.
Likelihood to Recommend
I would still recommend Visual Studio to anyone looking to do anything serious with .NET as an IDE if they have access to it, but for the most part, JetBrains Rider wins my recommendation. I think that if you're working on Windows-specific applications or some specific scenarios that VS supports, you have a use for it.
We use it in our Application Development department to maintain code for our web platform application, web APIs and AWS lambdas.
Pros
Good Intellisense.
Very intuitive as far as the organization which is very helpful when I'm trying to find a configuration or feature I'm not familiar with.
Overall, a very good appearance.
Easy to use debug and testing tools which makes trouble-shooting code issues much easier.
Cons
It can be a bit slow when dealing with bigger solutions.
It uses a large amount of memory which can slow down your computer substantially.
Sometimes the granularity and scale of configurations can be overwhelming.
Likelihood to Recommend
It's perfect for a larger solution that may have multiple projects interacting with each other. If you're dealing with leaner scripting based processes, Visual Studio Code may be a better fit.
Visual Studio IDE is used across our entire technical team, as it's the primary way we develop our application in C#. When working with Microsoft, it's effectively a requirement to use this IDE to gain access to the various Microsoft compilers, etc. that support the development of the platform. We use it for various items, such as code linting, building and running the projects, debugging, unit test execution, project organization, and things of that sort.
Pros
Very complete feature set for what it can do.
The interface is easy to understand and can be made into dark mode OR light mode.
The output is nicely formatted, and the code highlighting/linting is excellent.
Cons
It can be a bit of a heavy program, especially if you need to open multiple solutions.
There's no support for opening multiple solutions in one 'program,' which is a bummer.
Sometimes the more advanced functionality/hotkeys can be hard to remember, so some way to move through the program in a more intuitive way would be nice.
Likelihood to Recommend
Honestly, if you're building in C#, you don't REALLY have much of an option on your editor of choice. Microsoft more or less (more) demands that you use Visual Studio to compile and build your projects. That being said, it truly is a nice platform to use, and one of the more pleasant 'you must use this IDE' experiences I've had in programming.
It is being used directly in the engineering department. This IDE is used for development purposes for our company to design software applications. It is also used for unit testing and debugging. The biggest problem this addresses is a development be platform for C#. We also have used it for our database development and code management. Visual studio also ties into DevOps we creates a tight integration point for bug tracking. We are able to tie code check-ins to the software issue
Pros
Full featured
Integration with DevOps
Ease of use
Cons
No stashe with GIT
Learning curve for beginners
Likelihood to Recommend
If you are developing in .net platform it is a great tool. If you are developing in Java it is probably not the best bet. If you are using angular visual studio code is probably the best IDE to use as well.
Visual Studio is basically used for development purposes in our organisation. It's the only IDE used in our organisation. We debug, test and implement [our] system through Visual Studio.
Pros
Team Foundation Server- Widely used for comparing the old software codes. It helps to maintain development across the whole team.
Frequent Updates- It's widely updated on security, features and implementation techniques.
Supports th maximum of programming languages.
Cons
Uses a lot of memory and size constraints on the system.
Hardware issues- Compilation codes work on different machines and systems according to the operating system and processor.
Likelihood to Recommend
For development and debugging of desktop and mobile applications it's highly recommend
We use Visual Studio to build a variety of great video games in C# with Unity. We build everything from simple VR applications to advanced MMORPGs all using Visual Studio as our primary code editor and debugger. It blows away the alternatives when it comes to features, functionality, and performance.
Pros
Debugging in Visual Studio is second to none
Code highlighting & syntax coloring
Building cross-platform C# games & applications
Cons
It could be better at refactorings. With Resharper, this isn't an issue though.
Likelihood to Recommend
Visual Studio is the perfect IDE to get started in for new developers who want to build video games or Windows/web applications in C#. I'd highly recommend it to anyone working in .net in general either at a C# shop or doing game development with Unity. In the past, I've used it for everything from enterprise internal applications for huge companies like Qualcomm, Sony, and Intel, to scalable web applications for startups.
