Microsoft Visual Studio Reviews

I am using Microsoft Visual Studio for software development.

Microsoft Visual Studio has improved the way our organization functions by allowing us to develop applications rapidly.

The most valuable feature of Microsoft Visual Studio is the user interface.

I have been using Microsoft Visual Studio for approximately 15 years.

I have found Microsoft Visual Studio to be stable.

Microsoft Visual Studio is scalable.

We have an assistant director and software development using Microsoft Visual Studio in my department. In the whole company, there could be hundreds using Microsoft Visual Studio.

In my department, they do not like Microsoft Visual Studio, but across the departments, we will increase the usage of Microsoft Visual Studio.

I rate the support from Microsoft Visual Studio a four out of five.

I have used a couple of different packages prior to Microsoft Visual Studio.

The initial setup of Microsoft Visual Studio was straightforward and take approximately 20 minutes.

We have two people for the deployment and maintenance of Microsoft Visual Studio.

The cost of using Microsoft Visual Studio is approximately $1,700 per user.

I rate the price of Microsoft Visual Studio a four out of five.

I evaluated other solutions before choosing Microsoft Visual Studio, such as DELFI. I chose Microsoft Visual Studio because it was easier to use and more flexible.

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.

I rate Microsoft Visual Studio a nine out of ten.

On-premises

We are a services company, and we use Microsoft Visual Studio for .NET development, application development, and related tasks.

I find Microsoft Visual Studio to be a good development environment. Its integration with SQL and features like check-in, check-out, and integration with Visual SourceSafe and now the Azure counterpart are very effective for debugging applications.

The integration of automation capabilities, such as code auto-generation, would be beneficial. Copilot integration and other automation tools would definitely increase productivity.

I have been using Microsoft Visual Studio since its inception, which is more than ten years.

I believe the solution is very stable.

Microsoft Visual Studio is a fully scalable solution with no limitations.

Technical support from Microsoft is very good; I would rate it a ten.

Positive

I find the initial setup of Microsoft Visual Studio to be simple, and I can do it alone without needing more people.

I can handle the installation all by myself.

I am not directly involved with the pricing since our company does bulk purchases. Generally, we are pretty happy with Microsoft products.

I have not worked with any competitive products similar to Microsoft Visual Studio.

Prospective users should know that it's very easy to set up and use Microsoft Visual Studio, ensuring a good user experience. I would rate my overall experience with Microsoft Visual Studio a ten.

We use the solution to develop applications. 

Microsoft Visual Studio needs to improve integration. 

I have been using the product for five years. 

I rate Microsoft Visual Studio's stability a nine out of ten. 

The tool's deployment is straightforward. It takes less than an hour to complete. 

I can install the solution by myself. 

Microsoft Visual Studio is a free product. 

I rate Microsoft Visual Studio a nine out of ten. 

I use the Visual Studio Team System for programming. 

My company works with outsourced programmers. The solution helps us to test, integrate and foresee the code quality. We can trace the development stages. 

I like Azure DevOps integration and the nativeness of the C#. 

Visual Studio Team System needs to improve documentation. 

I have been using the solution for ten years. 

I rate the solution's stability a nine out of ten. 

I rate the product's scalability a nine out of ten. 

Visual Studio Team System is expensive, but it is worth the money. 

You can start using the community edition first. I rate the tool an eight out of ten. 

I am using Microsoft Visual Studio for development and C-sharp coding.

In our organization, we use it for debugging while installing and using whatever package we require. Hence, it is an independent platform, which adds to some of its useful features.

The time that it takes to load the application can be reduced. The aforementioned details can be considered for improvement.

I have been using Microsoft Visual Studio for nearly three years. 

It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

It is a scalable solution, and it is very easy to scale. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

There are so many people using it owing to the fact that it is similar to a credit card system.

The solution is suitable for medium enterprises.

The technical support is good. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten since I don't have any issues with the support.

Positive

Previously, I was using HTML Editor for JavaScript coding. I got into development, and that's why I switched to Microsoft Visual Studio.

The installation of the solution is easy.

I don't have any cloud, but there is some setup file available for installation, and I use that.

We use Microsoft VSTS to deploy CI/CD pipelines, so it automatically builds the application and publishes it. Therefore, we don't face any problems.

There are two engineers taking care of the deployment.

The solution doesn't require any maintenance.

I had evaluated some other options. I chose to go with Microsoft since my organization's technology is based on Microsoft, which is why it is easier to work with Microsoft Visual Studio.

Microsoft Visual Studio is a vast application. We need to explore more and make use of it. I would definitely recommend the solution to those planning to use it.

I rate the overall solution a nine out of ten.

On-premises

We use the solution to develop in-house products.

The solution's most valuable feature is its integration with various platforms.

There could be more coding languages in the solution.

I have been working with the solution for two years.

It is a stable solution. I rate its stability nine out of ten.

It is a scalable solution. Presently, five people use it in our organization.

The solution's initial setup is easy. We require a team of 15 executives, one director, five to six managers, engineers, and technical staff for its maintenance.

The system administrators help us implement the solution.

We are using the solution's free version.

I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

I am using Microsoft Visual Studio for developing SQL Server applications.

Using Microsoft Visual Studio has heightened the quality of the work that I do since it is checking everything.

The most valuable feature of Microsoft Visual Studio is its integration with Azure DevOps.

The migration could improve in Microsoft Visual Studio. When I upgraded from 2017 and up to 2022 it was not smooth. There was a lot of manual hand-picking.  Microsoft should put a higher budget for the database developers' section in Visual Studio.

In a future release, it would be a benefit to include an option so I can share the library of methods between different projects in SQL Server easier.

I have been using Microsoft Visual Studio for approximately five years.

Microsoft Visual Studio is a highly stable solution.

We have four or five people using Microsoft Visual Studio in our organization. We are a small startup company.

I have not used the support from Microsoft Visual Studio.

I previously used SQL Server Management Studio which is very popular for development. However, I wanted to source code handling as well, and this is why I moved to Microsoft Visual Studio.

The initial setup of Microsoft Visual Studio was straightforward. However, the difficulty depends on how much of the solution is going to be used. The installation is typically done in smaller steps at the beginning which makes it easy.

The time it took for the deployment was approximately one day.

We did the deployment of the solution in-house but we had a consultant with the GitHub integration.

The solution is expensive.

I rate the price of Microsoft Visual Studio a two out of five.

I am the only person that is needed for maintaining the solution.

My advice to others is to do small steps at the beginning to make it simple. This solution is very large and is best to do it in small steps.

I rate Microsoft Visual Studio an eight out of ten.

On-premises

I'm using Visual Studio 2022 on a MacBook. 

The installation process is not difficult. 

It's good overall. 

The solution is stable. 

We have no issues with scaling. 

I don't know what area needs to be better.

Every time it updates, there are issues. It alerts to an exception and then quits. They need to improve that aspect.

We would like a .NET core API. Currently, Visual Studio is using a .NET core six version.

I've been using the solution for around four years. 

It's a stable solution. There are no bugs. It works well. 

The solution can scale as needed.

We have around 5,000 people on it. Typically, they are developers. 

The solution itself is good. We don't have issues. I've never had to contact support.

I have had to contact the Microsoft team due to some items surrounding the Xamarin platform, however.

We chose Microsoft Visual Studio due to the fact that it's a .NET part for developing applications and contains many more things like C#, a mobile application for Xamarin, and MBC, et cetera. That's why many people are using it. I can't speak to what was used before.

It's very simple to install the solution. First, you need to install it, then, we need to install Xcode for iOS and Android SDK for Android. We need to install the Xamarin profiler when using Visual Studio as well.

It's a big file that you need to download during installation. For Android and iOS, it's something like a 20GB file that needs to be downloaded. Visual Studio is not more than 3GB to 4GB to set up, however, Android SDK is a very big file, which is why it's more than 15GB.

I don't deal with the licensing aspects of the product. I'm not sure how much we pay.

Currently, I'm using Visual Studio version 2022.

I'd recommend the solution to others. It's a great product.

It's very easy to understand and develop the application.

I'd rate it an eight out of ten.

Hybrid Cloud

I write all of my web applications and perform debugs with the solution. Our company is a Microsoft partner and has 1,000 developers and technical team members that are dispersed across the UK, US, and Asia Pacific.

The breakout point, interface design, and coding areas are WYSIWYG and easy to use. 

The solution includes a debug function that I can breakpoint to easily detect what is wrong with my applications. It is really good for debugging C# code. It identifies which lines or sections have problems and if your naming is incorrect.

The solution is not really good at debugging JavaScript, jQuery, or SQL. 

For SQL, sometimes I get alerts that there are non-values or mismatches but the line or section is not identified. I get very generic information with SQL. I have to install ELMAH open source code into our SQL so Visual Studio can track it. 

For jQuery, I have to add the debugger command manually. 

Sometimes, when upgrading the product, certain features are removed even though they are very good like EDMS. There was a VISA for connecting databases and creating an entity framework that would generate connections and pulses. It was removed from the latest release so now it needs to be added manually. I like enhancements but would prefer they not remove features as it makes things more difficult. 

When they release things like .NET Core, the solution becomes unstable. There needs to be a long-term plan because so many versions have been released that some are duplicates. Let's say I'm using .NET Core version 5 and they change it to .NET 5 or 6.0, the releases are too quick and completely duplicated. 

Every new release includes duplicates of features. Some are very useful but when they are duplicated, I have to rewrite or upgrade my code. This makes it difficult for a developer and is not a long-term solution. In one year, I've already spent money to develop my apps, and then I have to upgrade the code again. 

I have been using the solution for 20 years. 

The solution is not very stable and sometimes hangs. 

The solution is scalable and adding users is no problem. 

I rely on internal staff for technical support. I believe Microsoft requires you to register as a customer before you can utilize their support. There's an online forum where you can post questions and get quick replies from other users. 

Setup and use are easy. 

Deployment varies based on the size of your project. 

Small, web-deployed projects take less than five minutes and we are ready to publish the web app to Azure. 

For on-premises, we build the DLL and web package in advance. It takes 20-30 minutes to import because you have to upload to the file server, download the package, and import the application.  

Our company is a Microsoft partner so we only use their solutions. 

If you want to use .NET or C#, then Visual Studio is the best solution. 

I rate the solution a seven out of ten. 

On-premises

We use this solution for developing enterprise projects.

It is a beneficial tool because we can write programming code, write our test cases and automate tests in Visual Studio.NET. Additionally, after we develop projects, we can automate and test. It also provides an integrated development environment where we can design our page and program it. It works well both on the front and back end.

The solution could be improved by including an axle intelligence
for tech suggestions and suggesting the dependencies between API. When we use some APIs, we have to add the dependency ourselves in Microsoft Visual Studio. However, with axle intelligence, when an API is added to a project, it can find the dependency of the API and add it automatically.

We have been using this solution for about 17 years now and we are currently using the 2019 version.

The solution is very stable. It works very well once it is open and has never crashed.

The solution is scalable, and scalability depends on what we use the tool for. It has various tools we can use in whatever way we choose. Currently, six people are using this product in our company.

We have had a very good experience with customer service and support.
Whenever we post an issue, someone in the support team reaches out to us within 24 hours. Therefore, I would rate the support team a ten out of ten.

Positive

We used Borland IDE before switching to this solution. Borland C++ builder was a good product then, but we switched to this solution because we think Microsoft Visual Studio is currently the best IDE.

The initial setup is straightforward. It just needs to be downloaded and installed from Microsoft.

We implemented this solution on our own. We work with Microsoft Visual Studio on our PCs, which is installed on every PC. For each project, we have a manager and a group of about five to 60 staff members comprising engineers, administrators and managers. We extend our team and employ new people whenever we get a new project.

Unfortunately, we cannot comment on ROI because we are using the community edition.

Unfortunately, because our country is under hefty sanctions, we could not buy this product so we use the community edition, which is a free version. However, we believe the cost of licensing for this product is logical.

I rate this product a ten out of ten. This product is a very good choice for people searching for an Integrated IDE. Microsoft IDE is very integrated and does not require other tools except Microsoft Visual Studio.NET. However, the product could be improved by including axle intelligence.