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Microsoft Visual Studio

Score9 out of 10

805 Reviews and Ratings

What is Microsoft Visual Studio?

Visual Studio (now in the 2022 edition) is a 64-bit IDE that makes it easier to work with bigger projects and complex workloads, boasting a fluid and responsive experience for users. The IDE features IntelliCode, its automatic code completion tools that understand code context and that can complete up to a whole line at once to drive accurate and confident coding.

Customizable and productivity tools galore!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Return on Investment

  • Easy to create new components to copy and paste from another file.
  • Fast and easy to debug.
  • Good when it has plugins that will help with productivity.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Sublime Text

Other Software Used

Sublime Text, Notion

Visual Studio True Review

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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

Most Important Features

  • Accurate coding
  • Team foundation server
  • Intellisense

Return on Investment

  • Increased efficiency
  • Reduced costs
  • Improved visualization
  • Code maintenance

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Visual Studio Code and Eclipse

Other Software Used

Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Eclipse, Notepad++

Visual Studio IDE Review

Pros

  • Availability of Extensions
  • Compatibility with Git
  • Easy settings

Cons

  • Better Technical Support
  • Hard to find the right option
  • Disk space occupied is large

Most Important Features

  • Single interface for all developing tools
  • Debugging
  • User friendly display

Return on Investment

  • Interface is easy to understand. I know developer actually leaving other IDE after using visual studio
  • Code highlighting and linting is excellent
  • One downside is that opening multiple solutions in one program does not have support

Alternatives Considered

Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, Anaconda, Spyder and NetBeans

Other Software Used

Eclipse, NetBeans, IntelliJ IDEA, Postman, Amazon DynamoDB

Visual Studio IDE

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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

Most Important Features

  • Openshift extension
  • Git extensions
  • Team Coding

Return on Investment

  • DevOps facilitator
  • Developer friendly
  • F/P

Alternatives Considered

IntelliJ IDEA and Eclipse

Other Software Used

IntelliJ IDEA, Docker, Vagrant, by HashiCorp

Visual Studio IDE helps increase our team's productivity while saving valuable time, too!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Most Important Features

  • Ability to share with the team in one central yet digital location.
  • The fact that it is user-friendly is a huge help.

Return on Investment

  • Has enabled us to improve our products' efficacy.
  • Has helped us increase ROI much more easily.

Alternatives Considered

LiveCode

Other Software Used

LiveCode, Navisite Productivity and Collaboration (Microsoft Office 365 and MDM), Apple Keynote