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Vaishali
Vaishali
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Coding Brilliance

Reviewed on 2024/02/19

my overall experience with Microsoft Visual Studio has been highly positive. Its comprehensive...

my overall experience with Microsoft Visual Studio has been highly positive. Its comprehensive toolset, intuitive interface, and robust debugging capabilities have greatly facilitated my development workflow. While occasional resource consumption issues and update interruptions may occur, they are outweighed by the overall efficiency and effectiveness of the IDE.

Pros

Microsoft Visual Studio stands out for its comprehensive toolset, intuitive interface, and wide language support. Its powerful debugging capabilities and seamless integration with the Microsoft ecosystem make it a favorite among developers. With a vibrant community and extensive support resources, Visual Studio is the go-to choice for efficient and effective software development.

Cons

Microsoft Visual Studio can be resource-intensive, consuming significant memory and CPU, particularly when handling large projects.

Sharduli
Sharduli
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Best and top choice for all developerss...!! Just loved It.

Reviewed on 2024/06/26

Overall, this has now become a top choice for me and many of my friends. Its just seamlessly user...

Overall, this has now become a top choice for me and many of my friends. Its just seamlessly user friendly design and vast variety of feature set makes it the best one and top choice for all devs.

Pros

The most thing I loved about Visual Studio is its highly customizable interface. It helps very much for personalized and efficient work. The real time intelli sense helps me to increase my coding speed and accuracy and its integrated debugging tools just makes my life easier to find bugs in shorter time as compared to others. Also if I say other things is I loved its integration with git which makes code management effortless. Mostly this works with my low gm ram computer.

Cons

It is very hard to find anything that I liked least in this software. Everything is so seamlessly good.

Alex
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 3.0 /10

Visual Studio Could Be Better

Reviewed on 2024/06/23

Not satisfied, prefer other tools. I wish it would auto detect and have better auto completion and...

Not satisfied, prefer other tools. I wish it would auto detect and have better auto completion and some tools genuinely have it.

Pros

It got good features but it lacks the speed.

Cons

Very slow, and not very efficient whether it is for compiling or anything else.

Preston
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Studying with Visuals... VSC

Reviewed on 2024/11/01

I really enjoy using it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.

I really enjoy using it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.

Pros

Really easy to code, fun themes, and I love the way it will try to help you complete the lines of code.

Cons

The way that it askes you if I want the built-in Editor, and thats fine, but it doesn't help.

Swati
Swati
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  • Industry: Computer Networking
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Great IDE for Development

Reviewed on 2024/07/03

Microsoft Visual Studio has significantly enhanced my development workflow with its robust features...

Microsoft Visual Studio has significantly enhanced my development workflow with its robust features and integrations. Despite some minor drawbacks, it remains my go-to IDE for professional projects.

Pros

- Intuitive and user-friendly interface.
- Excellent debugging tools.
- Comprehensive support for multiple languages.
- Seamless integration with Azure and other Microsoft services.

Cons

- Can be resource-intensive on older machines.
- Some features require additional extensions.
- Occasionally slow to start.
- Complex for beginners.

Rolly
Rolly
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Visual Studio A Developers Playground

Reviewed on 2024/04/12

Pros

Intigration with multiple platform like github Copilot (which help to write your code fluently),connectivity with multiple databases llike MySQL,PostgreySQL,Multiwindow Function were you can write code more accurately.support multiple languages.

Cons

Need to update every now and then for fluetly working otherwise it gets lagged and kick back you

Onur
Onur
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Microsoft Visual Studio Review

Reviewed on 2024/05/02

My overall experience with Microsoft Visual Studio is very positive. It really helps me to develop...

My overall experience with Microsoft Visual Studio is very positive. It really helps me to develop and test my applications.

Pros

It has really powerful graphical user interface. You can all the details that you want easily. Also debugging and building

Cons

It could be great if there can be more features in the marketplace of Visual Studio.

Raphael
Raphael
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  • Industry: Construction
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Perfect and flawless to code

Reviewed on 2024/08/22

Great software to use in IT. You can code easily with it.

Great software to use in IT. You can code easily with it.

Pros

Visual Studio is dynamic and practical to code. It has a lot of configurations and easy integration with other platforms.

Cons

Nothing, I love using it. I had no problems while working with it.

Evandro Cláudio
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  • Industry: Accounting
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10

Microsoft Visual studio since 2021 experience

Reviewed on 2024/11/01

Started using Microsoft Visual studio in 2021 at school to write C# applications at first and then...

Started using Microsoft Visual studio in 2021 at school to write C# applications at first and then to write asp.net web apps

Pros

The ability to code in many languages and frameworks

Cons

The RAM consumption! Consumes an great amount of Ram

Mulenga
Mulenga
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  • Industry: Program Development
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Monthly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10

Why Microsoft Visual Studio is the best IDE for developers

Reviewed on 2024/02/27

Pros

Its frameworks and variate of programming languages

Cons

constant update of the software and ram consumption

Nishedh
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Microsoft Visual Studio Review

Reviewed on 2024/03/25

One of the best IDE for software development as it is easy to use, it supports intelligence,...

One of the best IDE for software development as it is easy to use, it supports intelligence, supports coding, designing, debugging, testing and deployment.

Pros

One of the best Integrated Development Environment as supports coding, designing, debugging, testing and deployment. It supports multi language such as C#, javascript, Typescript etc.

Cons

It might be complex for beginner's, need license to run as a professional.

Tijuan
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  • Industry: Business Supplies & Equipment
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for Free Trial
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

my review

Reviewed on 2023/01/11

In summary, projections in Visual Basic can be performed using a variety of tools and techniques,...

In summary, projections in Visual Basic can be performed using a variety of tools and techniques, such as LINQ and the Select method. These tools provide a simple and intuitive way to transform data into a different format, making it easy to work with data in Visual Basic and providing a lot of flexibility when working with data in different contexts.

Pros

a lot of flexibility when working with data in different contexts.

Cons

the ability to connect to various databases such as SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle and many more. Developers can use the built-in tools to connect to the database, create tables, and perform basic data operation

Alternatives Considered

Wing Python IDE

Reasons for Switching to Microsoft Visual Studio

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vivek
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10

Coding makes simple and easy

Reviewed on 2024/06/20

VS code is called for its extensive feature set, included robust debugging tools, IntelliSense for...

VS code is called for its extensive feature set, included robust debugging tools, IntelliSense for code completion, built-in Git integration, and provide multiple frameworks and programming languages

Pros

Microsoft VS code provides varoius tools that Serve to developers across many platforms and languages. Here are some aspects that many developers appreciate
Cross-Platform Development
Community and Support
Rich Feature Set
Extensibility

Cons

there are free versions available like Visual Studio Community some features are only available in paid editions such as Visual Studio Professional and Visual Studio Enterprise, which may costly for single developers or small teams.

Moses F
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  • Industry: Education Management
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Best Coding Software Ever

Reviewed on 2024/05/03

My overall experience with Microsoft Visual Studio is amazing, awesome, and mind blowing.

My overall experience with Microsoft Visual Studio is amazing, awesome, and mind blowing.

Pros

The prompt out of codes when a user is writing a code. It makes work easier.

Cons

I haven't yet come across anything about this software that i don't like.

Ram
Ram
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Best IDE for development.

Reviewed on 2023/08/29

Pros

The Visual Studio is an end to end development lifecycle IDE used by most of the developers, there are many functionalities not just writing code but we can debug it aswell.

Cons

Microsoft Visual studio is an top rated IDE .Nothing to dislike for me.

Mark
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  • Industry: Computer Games
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Visual Studio Not too Shabby

Reviewed on 2024/03/11

It not a choice it is a lack of options, if you work in .Net it is what you use.

It not a choice it is a lack of options, if you work in .Net it is what you use.

Pros

When it works it works well, it does have some versioning issues which make references not too great, Asp.net needs all of its bugs fixed like the non synced code behind bug.

Cons

its a resource hog, the documentation is hard to navigate and is confusing

Pranay
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

VSC editor

Reviewed on 2024/07/04

Best editor tool in recent times which supports various features and languages.

Best editor tool in recent times which supports various features and languages.

Pros

VSC offers best support for multiple languages and is compatible on various platforms and various devices. It has best features like to integrate with GitHub and very flexible and customizable.

Cons

It may be difficult for new beginners to use.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Most versatile IDE

Reviewed on 2024/07/04

Wonderful IDE offers developers to develop software or webapps with ease by its wide range of tools...

Wonderful IDE offers developers to develop software or webapps with ease by its wide range of tools and extensions. Team collaborations can be made smoothly with git repository integrations.

Pros

Very useful tool for software development. It supports very wide range of programming languages. Allows various extensions to integrate. with it, allows developer to use it with ease.

Cons

Its complexity narrows its usage only to intermediate developers. Beginners may experience some hard level of usage. Sometimes it may causes slowness, because of its wide range of features.

Rakesh
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

My 4 year exprience With MS visual Studio

Reviewed on 2024/03/05

my overall exprience with MS visual studio is good.

my overall exprience with MS visual studio is good.

Pros

Mircosoft Visual studio one of the most popular App development App which help to develop our product in Easy Manner, it provides show syntax error inline to we find syntax mistake easily and it also give keyword suggestion which is very helpful for development.

Cons

I dislike poor graphical user interface.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Accounting
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

The best one for the management and development the project..! I really love it ❤️

Reviewed on 2023/08/19

Good one for my experience using, i want to do any things form my business in this application to...

Good one for my experience using, i want to do any things form my business in this application to development my work

Pros

Easy for using and make the ways good for the management and development about what you need to do ..!

Cons

I look it as the good one for development the games or any things you want to make in your business management

Antonio
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  • Industry: Insurance
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

DevOps point of view

Reviewed on 2024/02/26

It is a lightweight, free and highly customizable IDE thanks to plug-ins.

It is a lightweight, free and highly customizable IDE thanks to plug-ins.

Pros

Through the various plug-ins it is useful both for the developer and for those who have to create infrastructures, especially in the cloud. Ideal for having a single tool if you use the "you build it, you run it" methodology.

Cons

Software debugging should offer more functionality.

Joël
Joël
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Microsoft Visual Studio review

Reviewed on 2023/06/02

It's my preferred coding software. Microsoft Visual Studio Helps me to build websites from scratch...

It's my preferred coding software. Microsoft Visual Studio Helps me to build websites from scratch with very cool development solutions. I highly recommend it to fellow developers.

Pros

Microsoft Visual Studio is a simple and hybrid code editor to build nice looking websites, web applications or even debugging.Initially the tool comes free to install with the installation process being super simple (On PCs of course).The User-interface is very clean and easy to use in addition to the plugin library available which pretty much extends some important functionalities and provides a great development flow to my endeavors.The PC is even better as I can easily personalize the tool as per my preferred preferences. There are themes available and very useful plugins.

Cons

Microsoft Visual Studio sometimes crashes unexpectedly. This is so annoying as I completely kills off productivity.

Yusril
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  • Industry: Education Management
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Best IDE for Developer

Reviewed on 2023/12/14

Pros

Integrated with many programming languages, easy to use, friendly shortcut keyboard

Cons

big size, too few plugins for integrated with other IDE or game engine

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Review for Microsoft Visual Studio

Reviewed on 2023/07/21

My overall experience with Microsoft Visual Studio is outstanding. VS Code's debugging and...

My overall experience with Microsoft Visual Studio is outstanding. VS Code's debugging and formatting feature is better than all other code editors.

Pros

It is the best code editor I have ever used. It provides extensions so that we can use it for all the languages and for development also. The integrated feature of vs code with git is amazing to pull or push the repository.

Cons

There is nothing that I don't like about Microsoft Visual Studio.

Lindokuhle
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Visual Studio is a no brainer

Reviewed on 2023/12/16

Pros

It is feature rich and relatively easy to use. I've found the AWS toolkit for visual studio particularly useful, that along with github integration makes CI/CD a breeze.

Cons

It tends to be heavy on system resources, and I probably would not use it outside of the context of programming in C#.