It's a universal solution. I like that I can easily find software developers for it. I can easily find staff on Microsoft forums. Also, we have other components that are running on top of Visual Studio. I like that it is open to other platforms. Finally, there are many many resources for Microsoft Visual Studio and I can easily find support. There is a large knowledge base for it as well.

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reviewer1016499

Sr. Managing Consultant - Data Driven Enterprise at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Aug 13, 2019

The most valuable feature is the integration with different databases.

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Devuser678

Developer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Sep 8, 2019

I like it that I don't need any special software to run this program.

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reviewer1358424

Senior Software Engineer at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

Jun 21, 2020

While you're coding, it's really nice to be able to print stuff out and make sure that all the data is being organized the way you want it to be.

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it_user1370709

Programmer Specialist II at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jul 15, 2020

Code management is a new and convenient feature.

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it_user1355943

Tech Lead at Abtran

Jul 23, 2020

The most valuable feature is that it is a complete package, with an IDE and everything that you need for software development.

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Zhu Lei

R&D Director at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Sep 27, 2020

It is convenient to have all the development tools in one interface.

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RahimKhowaja

Chief Information Technology Officer at BMC Solutions

Nov 17, 2021

I like the performance, stability and ease of use.

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it_user808128

Director Research Development with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jan 25, 2018

Since it is a heavy product, it is somewhat slow in building and executing the code in a localhost environment and it consumes a lot of resources.

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reviewer829596

Works at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Mar 1, 2018

It would be nice if Visual Studio's extensions and updates could self-correct, if they are not working or disabled, and also inform the user.

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Cengiz Yalcin

IT Global Operations Manager at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jul 15, 2018

I would like to see support for rapid application development. For example, if I am developing a new project, I am repeating many similar steps again and again and again. But the platform could do this easily, instead of me. It would save me time. This is something I would like to have in Microsoft Visual Studio, to have it take over repetitive tasks from me.

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Sr. Managing Consultant - Data Driven Enterprise at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Aug 13, 2019

The reporting services are quite limited in terms of features and need to be improved.

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Devuser678

Developer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Sep 8, 2019

In the next version I would like to see a better development tool.

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