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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 19/02/2024

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 26/06/2024

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.

Alicia
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  • Industry: Automotive
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 4.0 /10

Microsoft Visual Studio is my go-to for coding and debugging.

Reviewed on 18/12/2023

Pros

The user interface is intuitive and the debugging tools are top-notch.

Cons

The software can be resource-heavy at times, slowing down my system.

Christian
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Visual Studio Review

Reviewed on 06/09/2024

It works well for C# projects but it eats a lot of memory.

It works well for C# projects but it eats a lot of memory.

Pros

If you are writing anything in C# it has a good ecosystem.

Cons

It does not have the best ai plug ins or if it does they do not work as well as on VS code.

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 03/07/2024

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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  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Visual Studio A Developers Playground

Reviewed on 12/04/2024

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

Hafeez Ur
Hafeez Ur
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  • Industry: Oil & Energy
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Microsoft Visual Studio reviewing

Reviewed on 20/02/2024

Pros

Some commonly liked features of Microsoft Visual Studio include its comprehensive set of coding, debugging, and testing tools, its user-friendly interface, and its seamless integration with various programming languages and frameworks. Additionally, features such as IntelliSense, which provides context-aware code completion, and the ability to customize the environment to suit individual preferences are highly appreciated by developers.

Cons

Microsoft Visual Studio's performance, particularly in terms of memory usage and startup times.
various programming languages and frameworks.

Onur
Onur
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 2–10 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

Microsoft Visual Studio Review

Reviewed on 02/05/2024

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.

Kyle
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  • Industry: Defense & Space
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 2.0 /10

A worthy Product for Microsoft’s Lineup

Reviewed on 09/08/2024

This IDE is nothing to ignore. It’s simple, plugins are easy to manage, and it boasts a worthy list...

This IDE is nothing to ignore. It’s simple, plugins are easy to manage, and it boasts a worthy list of languages that it can compile. Well done Microsoft.

Pros

Like all Microsoft-funded projects, this ODE boasts a whole list of convenience features with developers in mind.

Cons

Admittedly slightly bias, I have grown to prefer writing software on other OS systems besides Windows. I believe VS has a version for Mac, but as a Linux developer, that doesn’t help me either.

kwandile Mabutho
kwandile Mabutho
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  • Industry: Accounting
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Microsoft visual studio review

Reviewed on 24/01/2024

The perfect visual studio assistant you can need

The perfect visual studio assistant you can need

Pros

This program helps in a very assistant manner when you are doing project development and game design planning

Cons

It covers a few features on an new not updated pc or andriod phone

Nishedh
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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
  • Customer Support
  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Microsoft Visual Studio Review

Reviewed on 25/03/2024

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.

Dylan
Dylan
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

The best C# and C++ IDE hands down

Reviewed on 05/01/2024

Visual Studio is a big, full fat, enterprise IDE. It can be a bit of an overload when experiencing...

Visual Studio is a big, full fat, enterprise IDE. It can be a bit of an overload when experiencing it for the first time, and the learning curve takes some time. But the more you get used to it, the more it does for you and helps you build quicker and better.

Pros

I love how fully featured and well thought out Visual Studio is. It makes so many development tasks easier, with prebuilt templates and configs for the most common build targets, and powerful enterprise features to enable efficient collaboration.

Cons

Visual Studio chews processing power, disk space and RAM like nothing else. If you need to work in resource constrained environments, you can quite easily overwhelm your machine by starting up Visual Studio and sometimes means you cannot run any other software at the same time.

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 03/05/2024

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.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Animation
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Microsoft VS

Reviewed on 13/04/2024

Pros

It have 100+ plugins, templates, advanced features, intergrates with many programming languages, many frameworks for example, asp.net

Cons

requires a lot of cpu resources, memory and storage.

Ronak
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Great Product, easy to use and extensions are great

Reviewed on 24/06/2024

Pros

UI is best, easy to use. You can find many extensions which you can integrate in VS which is useful.

Cons

I am using it more than 6 years, but I don't see any cons till now.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Banking
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Very powerful and complete

Reviewed on 11/10/2023

Pros

The development environment is very complete, intellisense provide several automatisms to improve coding productivity

Cons

The product doesn’t have a good graphic/icon editor and some configuration options are very difficult to find

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 2–10 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

The IDE to use.

Reviewed on 27/09/2023

Pros

It's very lightweight compared to most IDEs and enables users to setup different plugins or extensions to help a user work quicker and better.

Cons

Too many extensions that are doing the same thing and not quite vetted properly.

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 19/08/2023

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

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Computer & Network Security
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Microsoft Visual Studio is the best powerfull code editor

Reviewed on 01/05/2024

with the lightweight editor, it makes development team work easier, and a wide range of programming...

with the lightweight editor, it makes development team work easier, and a wide range of programming languages is provided.

Pros

the version we use is 64-bit natively which means more performance, and fewer out-of-memory exceptions. AI feature makes every character more on point. debugging feature that no need to stop to be able to see the change in the application we write.

Cons

Can be overwhelming for beginners, and can be slow on large projects especially when using large extensions.

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 02/06/2023

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.

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

DevOps point of view

Reviewed on 26/02/2024

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.

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
  • Customer Support
  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Review for Microsoft Visual Studio

Reviewed on 21/07/2023

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.

Nikita
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Visual Studio to increase efficiency and productivity

Reviewed on 04/09/2023

Pros

Visual Studio is a code editing tool which helps developers write code. It provides many facilities like inbuilt plugins, debugger options etc. We can also customize it according to our convenience e.g theme, shortcuts.

Cons

I have faced issues with stability such as crashing or freezing the visual studio especially after changing too many branches with large repose.

Verified Reviewer
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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

A great software to develop applications

Reviewed on 26/10/2023

Pros

It's a well established IDE to develop Windows based applications. It has all the tools required to code, build, and deploy your application. The interface is simple and easy to use.

Cons

The price of the software, in particular Enterprise edition, is too costly for the users.

Deepak
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  • Industry: Computer Games
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Microsoft vs code easy and user friendly Code editor

Reviewed on 24/02/2024

My Experience is Excellent for Microsoft visual studio (ms vs code editor)

My Experience is Excellent for Microsoft visual studio (ms vs code editor)

Pros

I used Microsoft vs code in 2 year ago and the most like features is shortcut code editing features.

Cons

Microsoft vs code is Ux and UI is very good for me. And it is Value for money product for all types of programmers