Microsoft Visual Studio Reviews and Pricing

Developer at a tech company with 51-200 employees

Jul 2, 2012

Visual Studio.NET is a state of the art, Integrated Development Environment (IDE) from Microsoft Corporation.

What is most valuable?

Offers an excellent platform to develop Desktop, Web, and Mobile Applications.Supports various programming languages.Includes various features for rapid application development (Like Drag & Drop, IntelliSense).

What needs improvement?

As .NET Framework bundles more and more components, utilities, and API's, the size of the downloadable is large..NET desktop applications can run only on a windows platform.Code editor is expensive.

What other advice do I have?

Even though Visual Studio.NET offers great features and functions, the cross-platform issues cannot be overlooked.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

it_user6579Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Jul 27, 2013

Great article by author Engineer359, certainly the Visual Studio.NET is a state of the art, Integrated Development Environment available in the market. Even there are some advantages and disadvantages of the framework which i would like to add:

Advantages:
1) Easy to learn
2) Can be used for creating Desktop, Web and Mobile Applications

Disadvantages:
1) As said by the author .NET Framework bundles more and more components, utilities, and API's so the learning curve is big.
2) Desktop Applications cab be created for windows platform only.

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Software Developer at a financial services firm with 1-10 employees

Aug 9, 2023

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Has good community support and interactive testing feature

Pros and Cons

"The tool is good for interactive testing. It has good integrations and works well for remote services. The product also has features for collaborative work where it allows others to control my screen. It has a good community for every language."

"I have faced configuration issues with Microsoft Visual Studio."

What is our primary use case?

I use the product to develop software.

What is most valuable?

The tool is good for interactive testing. It has good integrations and works well for remote services. The product also has features for collaborative work where it allows others to control my screen. It has a good community for every language.

What needs improvement?

I have faced configuration issues with Microsoft Visual Studio.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the solution for two years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution is stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I would rate Microsoft Visual Studio's scalability an eight out of ten.

How are customer service and support?

I haven't reached out to the tool's support.

How was the initial setup?

Microsoft Visual Studio's setup is straightforward. It is easy to download the solution and you need to allow permissions depending on whether you are a Mac or Windows user.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

I use Microsoft Visual Studio's free version.

What other advice do I have?

I would rate the tool a nine out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

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Contractor/ Developer at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

May 29, 2022

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User-friendly, reliable, and has a good online community support

Pros and Cons

"It's a useful integrated development environment."

"It is simple to use for most developers and nearly impossible to use for non-developers."

What is our primary use case?

I work as a developer. I code in it using Microsoft Visual Studio.

What is most valuable?

Basically everything. It's a useful integrated development environment.

It is easy to use.

It is simple to use for me.

What needs improvement?

It is simple to use for most developers and nearly impossible to use for non-developers.

For how long have I used the solution?

For the last 10 to 20 years, I've been using various versions of Microsoft Visual Studio.

I am working with the latest version.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Microsoft Visual Studio is a stable solution.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Scalability does not apply to the solution.

I am the only user in my company.

How are customer service and support?

It's good. Again, I'm using the community edition, which is the free version. It's an open-source, free version. It lacks support because I am not paying anything. I'm getting help from various public forums and community websites.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I am familiar with Google Chrome, Gmail, and Visual Studio. I now own a small company that does some development. I am a one-man operation.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

I am working with the open-source community version, which is free.

What other advice do I have?

I would recommend this solution to others who are interested in using it.

I would rate Microsoft Visual Studio a nine out of ten.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

Juan Penaherrera

Ingeniero de DevOps at Babel Software

Feb 21, 2022

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WPF is helpful for rendering user interface, and there is a lot of information on the web about it

Pros and Cons

"Windows Presentation Foundation or WPF is valuable. It's a tool to give clients a user interface for Windows applications. The summary for mobile applications is also very useful."

"There could be some features for YAML pipelines in Visual Studio."

What is our primary use case?

I am a DevOps engineer. I work from Ecuador for clients around LatAm, principally banks. I work with the banks that use DevOps continuous integration and continuous deployment. I also work with Visual Studio.

What is most valuable?

Windows Presentation Foundation or WPF is valuable. It's a tool to give clients a user interface for Windows applications. The summary for mobile applications is also very useful.

What needs improvement?

You need a lot of RAM to run the applications with Visual Studio and Unity. For example, if you want to do work on a game, you need a lot of resources or RAM for Visual Studio and Unity.

There could be some features related to Azure DevOps. There could be some features for YAML pipelines in Visual Studio.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using this solution for 14 years.

How are customer service and support?

We can find a lot of information on the internet when we have any issues.

What other advice do I have?

I would rate it a 10 out of 10.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.