Microsoft Visual Studio Reviews

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.

You can use the solution to do coding and drag and drop. It is easy to install with web documentation. 

Microsoft Visual Studio needs to improve integration. 

I have been using the product for 15 years. 

Microsoft Visual Studio is stable. 

The solution is scalable. 

The tool's deployment is straightforward. Deployment takes between ten minutes to one day. One resource is enough to handle the deployment. 

Microsoft Visual Studio is not expensive. Its licensing costs are expensive. 

I rate the product a nine out of ten. 

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.

We use the solution to write and develop program language and websites.

The solution is user-friendly.

The solution's setup process could be more straightforward.

I have been using the solution for ten years. At present, I use its latest version.

I rate the solution's stability above ten.

We have around 500 solution users in our organization. I rate its scalability above ten.

The solution's initial setup process is complex. It takes a day to complete.

We took help from a consultant to implement the solution.

The solution is worth the investment.

We pay for the solution's license. It could be cheaper.

The solution has good stability and performance. I recommend it to others and rate it a six out of ten. I advise others to understand the process before implementing it.

I use the solution for React JavaScript applications front-end and Python coding.

We made the React front-end, which connects over JasperSoft, and this front-end was provided to customers while Jaspersoft was in the back-end, because customers want to have a proprietary design for themselves. The React front end was in Visual Studio Code.

The most valuable features are the extensions. Microsoft Visual Studio has a large community with different types of extensions.

I would like the solution to have a designing default in addition to the current coding default.

I have been using the solution for a few months.

I give the stability a ten out of ten.

I previously used Eclipse but it is not a very stable solution and it would crash sometimes. Microsoft Visual Studio has never crashed for me.

I give the initial setup a nine out of ten. We only need to download the file and follow the onscreen instructions.

The implementation is completed in-house.

I use the open-source version of Microsoft Visual Studio.

I give the solution a nine out of ten.

I am always on the lookout for open-source applications, but they are not always the best choice for organizations. It is usually more cost-effective to use open-source software as it requires fewer personnel to maintain it. Purchasing expensive software may be a better solution than open-source applications if more people are needed. Ultimately, the manager will decide what they want, but some open-source software can be less stable than Oracle, which is very expensive but also very stable. Although the solutions are free, they do not provide as many options and can not do certain things that Oracle can do.

Microsoft Visual Studio is easy to install and has a lot of extensions that we can use for different programming languages. The solution is very good, it's simple and free to use. I recommend Microsoft Visual Studio to everyone.

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. 

The most valuable features of Microsoft Visual Studio are the database connections.

Microsoft Visual Studio can improve memory management, and packaging and reporting components.

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

Microsoft Visual Studio is stable.

Microsoft Visual Studio is not scalable because it is a stand-alone solution.

We have two people using this solution in my organization.

The support from Microsoft is not the best, but it is above average. They are sometimes slow to respond.

The initial setup of Microsoft Visual Studio is easy. The time it took was approximately half an hour.

I did the implementation of Microsoft Visual Studio myself.

We have received a return on investment using Microsoft Visual Studio.

The price of Microsoft Visual Studio could be lowered. For a single developer, it is approximately $1,000.

I rate Microsoft Visual Studio a seven out of ten.

We use Microsoft Visual Studio for application development and our customers.

I like the IDE or the integrated development environment. It's the best IDE.

IntelliSense could be better.

I have been using Microsoft Visual Studio for 20 years.

Stability is excellent.

Scalability is excellent. We have about 15 developers using this solution in our organization.

The initial setup was straightforward. It took less than 30 minutes to implement this solution.

We deployed this solution in-house. 

We have received a return on our investment.

Licensing costs are reasonable. 

I would recommend this solution to potential users.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give Microsoft Visual Studio a ten.