We performed a comparison between Microsoft Visual Studio and Zend Studio based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Adobe, FourJs and others in .NET Development Services."I like that it works fine and that it performs better than competing products. I'm very happy with Microsoft Visual Studio."
"It's a very easy-to-use product."
"The feature I find most valuable is the fact that it's broad-spectrum, so it can be used for a wide variety of technologies."
"What I like the most about Microsoft Visual Studio is that it's useful. It's also a very stable solution, and is scalable as well. It's quick to set up as it only took me a few seconds to do it."
"Visual Studio is a tool used for custom software development. It covers everything under this umbrella, including architecture for automation testing."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Visual Studio are the database connections."
"It is a stable solution."
"I was testing how to publish in a cloud using Azure and it was very easy."
"It has the ability to jump to any file in your project with a few keystrokes, as well as the ability to command-click on any token in your code and have it jump to the token's definition."
"It has higher quality code, faster debugging, and higher quality projects."
"I would like to see more tools in the next release."
"I would like to see more on-premise tips and tools along with development time so that I don't need to go to a third-party site."
"Every time it updates, there are issues."
"The GUI of Microsoft Visual Studio could improve."
"Additional components such as add-ons could be included in the installation packages."
"There have been some issues but not very often."
"The pricing for licenses could be reduced to make this solution more competitive."
"The best advice I can give to others is to take training because it's so easy to use out of the box. However, you might tend to install it and maybe configure it improperly. You need to have some training."
"The debugger often has problems determining where to map files to local projects."
"Stability is sometimes lacking in updates."
"Most recent set of patches (2018) on Mac OS X caused the app to crash when you would cut more than 10 lines of code. Apparently, this was due to a bug in Eclipse, but regardless, it took several months for Zend to post a patch."
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Microsoft Visual Studio is ranked 1st in .NET Development Services with 79 reviews while Zend Studio is ranked 8th in .NET Development Services. Microsoft Visual Studio is rated 8.4, while Zend Studio is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Visual Studio writes "Easy to use, works well in the Microsoft Windows ecosystem, and integrates well with Git". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zend Studio writes "It has higher quality code, faster debugging, and higher quality projects". Microsoft Visual Studio is most compared with SharePoint Designer, Genero and Microsoft Silverlight, whereas Zend Studio is most compared with .
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