Microsoft Visual Studio Reviews

We use Microsoft Visual Studio for general development, web development, and IT development.

Microsoft Visual Studio is an easy-to-use solution. All recent versions of Microsoft Visual Studio have live code, which allows multiple people to code on the same thing. The other valuable features of Microsoft Visual Studio are the integrations and extensions.

The solution’s technical support could be improved.

I have been using Microsoft Visual Studio for more than ten years.

I rate Microsoft Visual Studio ten out of ten for stability.

Over 1,000 users are using the solution in our organization.

I rate Microsoft Visual Studio a nine out of ten for scalability.

The solution's technical support is average. In some cases, I find it very good, and in other cases not so good.

The solution's initial setup takes a while but is quite straightforward.

We purchased an expensive enterprise version of Microsoft Visual Studio.

Microsoft Visual Studio helps streamline team collaboration. I would recommend Microsoft Visual Studio to other users.

Overall, I rate Microsoft Visual Studio a nine out of ten.

I use Visual Studio to build software for the Microsoft platform.

Visual Studio provides integration with GitHub, and the 2022 version makes it easy to move from one branch to another via the GUI when working on a solution. It also provides a view of how the branches are organized with the code inside the repository. 

Visual Studio's best feature is debugging, which isn't available with any other Microsoft development tool.

There's not much help to deal with issues on Microsoft's official websites.

I've been using Visual Studio since 2005.

Visual Studio is stable 95% of the time, except for an error when refreshing DLLs that requires a restart.

Visual Studio is the best tool available for working on the Microsoft platform, with features that aren't available on any other development tool. I would rate Visual Studio nine out of ten.

Microsoft Visual Studio can be deployed on the cloud and on-premise.

I am using Microsoft Visual Studio for developing applications.

There is room for improvement in the price of the solution overall.

I have been using Microsoft Visual Studio for approximately one and a half years.

Microsoft Visual Studio is highly stable.

The scalability of Microsoft Visual Studio is good.

We have 10 to 15 people using this solution.

I have not contacted the support from Microsoft Visual Studio. We have not had any major issues.

The installation of the Microsoft Visual Studio in approximately 15 minutes.

The license is taken care of by my company and the price could be less expensive.

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate Microsoft Visual Studio a nine out of ten.

I am using Microsoft Visual Studio for internal application development within our organization. For example, small application developments.

Microsoft Visual Studio's most valuable features are usability. It's an integrated development environment, they have a lot of built-in tools that will be helpful for a new developer to quickly develop their applications, such as mobile applications or web applications.

There are a lot of materials or online resources that are available. Microsoft Visual Studio is easy to figure out and start working on it.

I have been using Microsoft Visual Studio for approximately 10 years.

The stability of Microsoft Visual Studio is good.

I have not seen any difficulties when scaling Microsoft Visual Studio.

We have four users in the IT department using this solution in my company.

I did not face any issues needed to use the technical support.

I have not used a previous solution.

The initial setup of Microsoft Visual Studio is not complex, it is simple. When using Azure DevOps for the deployment of Microsoft Visual Studio it only takes approximately 10 to 15 minutes.

We did the deployment of Microsoft Visual Studio in-house.

The price of Microsoft Visual Studio is reasonable but could be better.

I am satisfied with the solution. I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate Microsoft Visual Studio an eight out of ten.

We are using Visual Studio for .NET software development.

One application that we are developing is for the service industry in Ireland. We are trying some PoCs for developing APIs and Web Interfaces using ASP.NET CORE. Once we demonstrate it, we will be developing a full-fledged solution.

Other teams in our organization are currently developing other projects, some of which are going into production in about a month.

This is an IDE for software development using .NET, and there are not many tools like it available. Anything we need to do, development-wise, we use this tool.

Its hard to point the most valuable feature as I see this IDE as a complete package for developers to build software solutions. Live Share, code refactoring, IntelliCode, the debug and diagnosis tooling are all valuable.

There are some features that I have yet to explore and it would be helpful to have more information about what is available and how it works.

I have been using Visual Studio for eight years and still using it.

We use this product on a daily basis and the stability is great. It does depend on the environment and how it is set up, but that is for the developers to learn. We have not had any downtime.

This is a scalable solution. At this time, we have five or six developers who are using it.

I have been in contact with Microsoft's technical support, but not much. When I have issues, I use the community forum. I have found that they respond quickly and I can resolve the problem.

I started learning .NET using Visual Studio and still using. As far as developing .NET solutions are concerned, Visual Studio is all that is needed. I did use Eclipse and Netbeans long back to develop Java solutions.

The initial setup is straightforward.

The Azure deployment is very quick, although we are still following the old method. It is still quick to publish and deploy, taking about five minutes for the on-premises version.

I am not the right person to advise on the pricing and the cost aspect as I just develop solutions using the tool. Although I am not directly involved in pricing, I have heard positive comments about the licensing fees. When our subscription expires, the finance department takes care of it.

The most basic edition of Visual Studio, the Community edition, is available free of charge which is oriented towards students, individual developers and small teams.

This tool is widely used in the software industry. The most recent version, 2019, has a lot of new functionality, some of which I still have to explore. Visual Studio is a developer friendly tool.

My advice for anybody who is considering using Visual Studio is that it is a complete package that contains everything you need for .NET code development.

I would rate this solution a ten out of ten.

The ability to set up projects has been great. We can set up different types of projects. 

The integration with Azure is quite helpful.

The solution is stable.

The scalability is very good. 

It is a straightforward solution to set up. 

Technical support can be slow to respond at times. 

I've been using the solution for ten years now. 

It is a stable solution. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It is reliable. 

The product can scale well. 

We have at least ten people on the solution right now. 

Technical support is okay. However, they are sometimes slow. We would like the product's support services to be quicker. 

Neutral

We found the initial setup to be straightforward and simple. I'd rate it a five or 4.5  out of five in terms of ease of deployment.

I'm not aware of the exact cost of the product. 

Our organization has a partnership with Microsoft.

I'd recommend the solution. It's a straightforward tool people can use to help develop solutions.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. 

I use the product to develop software. 

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. 

I have been using the solution for two years. 

The solution is stable. 

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

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

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.  

I use Microsoft Visual Studio's free version. 

I would rate the tool a nine out of ten. 

Right now I'm primarily using the solution for C-Sharp development.

I've actually been using the solution on iOS to do Xamarin apps. That might be something that's quite atypical, in terms of using the solution. It's not easy to do.

Having also done development within a text, I really enjoyed the (what I believe is called) IntelliSense feature. It helps if you are doing development within a text browser.

The integrated debugger is fantastic. 

None of these are particularly new features. Everybody else has been using it for 20 years too.

I find it funny that a lot of people complain about the solution. However, I find that it provides users with so many great and useful features, like console output, for example. You always have the option to dump a whole bunch of items out if you don't need them in the production.

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. 

It's got a lot of tools integrated into it. 

There's a community edition that is absolutely free to use. It's pretty good.

If you use the professional edition, you can do unit testing much easier. You can do mock-ups and tasks of that nature. It would be nice if they made that available on the community edition as well. 

There needs to be a feature upgrade, especially for the free features. They might have done so in the past or over the last few years. Still, it would be nice it if happened more often.

During some research into the product, I've discovered that they are trying to apply AI, as well as machine learning. This would be a welcome edition. They will most likely be advanced features. That means they won't be free. However, maybe in the future, they will be, given that enough time passes.

Technical support needs to be improved. Right now, it's not great.

I've used the solution for a long time. I would estimate I've used it on and off for 20 years. 

The solution is actually really stable. It's been around for so long. It's not like Microsoft Office products where a few years ago they decided to go redesign everything, and then the file formats were no longer compatible. In that case, users were confused as to which excel format to save in. This solution has been the same for 20 or so years. The format is the same. It hasn't changed. It remains very stable. 

I can't really comment on that aspect of the solution. I work on small projects, so I've never used it on any kind of scale.

There are about 20 people who use it in our organization. They're either software developers or software testers.

I haven't actually used their formal tech support, but have tried using their Microsoft answers. A lot of them are out of date. They're terrible. The support is basically: "Well, we can't reproduce that."

They don't even seem to do a search for themselves on Stack Overflow. You basically Google search to see if somebody else has answered the question. I would say that of course, it is free, so you get what you pay for and therefore the bar should be low on expectations. Still, it can be frustrating.

I have considered that maybe they have some poor interns trying to answer these questions, and they certainly don't seem too interested in providing the type of detailed responses a user might require. That's just what my impression is from trying to find answers occasionally. 

The nice thing about their model is if somebody asks a question, people will answer it. Then everyone can vote on the answer as the solution, and people can follow up. 

On Microsoft, if you go to their forums or help section for the product, you'll see the question is five years old. Nobody will ever say whether the answer they gave was the solution helped. So users often get confused. You need to ask yourself: "Do I spend half an hour deploying this? Or do I keep Googling?" It's awful.

The initial setup is really easy. You just download it and start it up.

I don't think my company uses much of an implementation strategy. There aren't as many protocols or structures. If we need it, we just download it and begin using it. 

I would say the only downside with this setup is that although it's usually pretty clear what libraries you want to include, it is slow to download. You do have to set aside a time when you can start the download. It's best to go off and do something on your own. You'd hate to do it at work, as you'll have to wait and you'll have nothing else to do. It's going to take half an hour to download at least.

Maintenance requirements are extremely low. There's next to none, really. 

The solution has a community version, which is free. It also has a paid version, with a few more premium features, but the free version is still really useful.

I believe I am using the 2015 version of the solution. It's the default for C-Sharp programs at the very least. Depending on what programs we get in, we can often use it extensively. I don't have plans to expand the solution right now. There are other solutions that would be available to us. 

For example, if we're going to do Python development, we'll probably use PyCharm instead of Visual Studio. Visual Studio does support Python, but PyCharm was in there before and everybody knows it. So we don't really force people to use it. Our company is a small company, where developers can choose their own development avenues.

In terms of advice, I would give to other users, I would suggest following a tutorial at first if you've never used it. They actually have some good tutorials online. If you actually follow them line by line, you get the setup and training that you need. Their help answers to random user questions are terrible, however.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten, mostly due to the fact that it's got a lot of features. If you want to do development, it makes it easy. I know, on the other hand, that there are some other really amazing tools out there. However, they aren't necessarily free. It's a good selling point: you get all this stuff for free, it's standard, and lots of people use it. Once you've learned it, it's quite useful.