Microsoft Visual Studio Valuable Features
The features I found most valuable are those related to the Microsoft Windows ecosystem. The famous umbrella that Microsoft extends over its products.
Working with Azure or SQL Server (connect, implement, deploy, etc.) is extremely easy, a common feature in all Microsoft products.
Deploying to Azure or Windows Server with IIS is also extremely easy and enjoyable.
Finally, integration with Git has improved a lot in the latest versions, as well as integration with GitHub and Copilot.
View full review »The most valuable feature of Microsoft Visual Studio is the user interface.
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Nandakumar Nagarajan
Senior Software Developer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
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.
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Microsoft Visual Studio
March 2024
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Adeel Ahmed
Software engineer at Punjab Group
The system can efficiently manage the databases.
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Swapnil Chavan
DC Project Delivery Senior Analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The design feature is really helpful. It's just a drag-and-drop process, which speeds up the design state of the project. I think designing any application is quite precise, and it's easier to do than any other application.
It is pretty simple to set up.
The stability is good.
View full review »The installation process is not difficult.
It's good overall.
The solution is stable.
We have no issues with scaling.
View full review »The most valuable features of Microsoft Visual Studio are the UI functionality where you can do software development. Everything is available there that you need. You can create the UI, and code, develop and compile it.
View full review »One of the most valuable features is its support. It's easy for me to get support even though I never use it. If there's a bug or a performance issue, Microsoft also provides quick updates, and this is another valuable feature of the program.
View full review »Sometimes being able to complete one line of code with many functions and lines requires a lot of mental and physical precision. However, Microsoft Visual Studio helped me with IntelliSense. IntelliSense helped me with autocomplete and code snippets to help speed up development. It also helps me quickly find and deploy the right code.
Apart from that, in terms of development, my team and I sometimes continue to improve and perfect the website or application that is being worked on so that everything is neat and well-tracked. For that, I use version control. Version control is a feature built into Visual Studio that helps me manage and track changes to the code I'm working on. This helps ensure that teams work from the same codebase and can quickly roll back to a previous version if needed.
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ahomar
Technical Team Lead at Bosla
Within Visual Support, there are three versions available, each housed in distinct containers. I'm focusing on the Enterprise version due to its customizable nature. This version boasts additional features, such as a pricing application for enhanced functionality and comprehensive unit testing coverage. The testing capabilities extend to diverse features, providing a thorough examination of different aspects. Notably, the Enterprise version facilitates seamless integration with Microsoft products, leveraging the ease of connectivity within the Microsoft ecosystem. Moreover, it supports integration with open-source products, including Python, allowing for a flexible and inclusive approach to development.
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Rajnish-Sharma
Senior technical project manager at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
From a professional perspective, I've been using Visual Studio since childhood, so I find it very useful. The code analysis tool is particularly valuable as it eliminates the need for manual code reviews.
Many essential features are built-in, making it a great tool. Additionally, it allows for easy integration with other tools like MS Teams, which enhances its usefulness.
View full review »This solution can integrate with almost any functionality offered by Microsoft.
View full review »What I like the most about Microsoft Visual Studio is that it's useful. It's also a very stable solution, and is scalable as well. It's quick to set up as it only took me a few seconds to do it.
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PawełPietrzak
Data engineer at Ernst & Young
I like the product's connection with Azure analytics services and the ability to build the model on the cloud.
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Dipika Panchal
Product Design Engineer at Cummins Inc.
The most valuable feature of Microsoft Visual Studio is the good intelligence and UI.
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Hussain Sorosh
Senior Soft Engineer at SECP
The most valuable feature of Microsoft Visual Studio is how easy it is to access all the basic templates for development. There are so many features you get with Visual Studio that it's really helpful for the deployment, the development, and the intelligence behind it.
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Chandan Konuri
Enterprise Architect - Integrations at BCA
What we like about Microsoft Visual Studio is that it's a comprehensive tool. It has features that work for different plans and it has a wide variety of use cases. It's also a powerful tool and it's quite efficient.
View full review »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.
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Alireza Nikseresht
CEO at Shiraz University
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.
View full review »You can get two tables, child and parents tables, and you can handle tasks such as invoicing, receipts, et cetera. I like to have the results on hand fast. It's making my life easy.
Many firms can use it. It's pretty prevalent.
I like the copy-paste all capabilities.
The stability is okay.
You can expand usage if you would like to.
View full review »The product integrates well with Azure Cloud, and it supports a ton of languages.
It also has a very good interface for Git source code management. Then there are a couple of add-ins or plug-ins that are out there in the marketplace that sometimes come in handy. From a developer standpoint, it does a very good job when it comes to debugging. It's a great development tool.
The initial setup was pretty straightforward.
The solution has good technical support.
View full review »I like Azure DevOps integration and the nativeness of the C#.
View full review »The most valuable feature of Microsoft Visual Studio is its integration with Azure DevOps.
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reviewer2322960
Software Engineer at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees
I like the design tools. Nowadays, it is very advanced. We can use different .NET features.
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Mary Kambo
Penetration tester at KNBS (Kenya National Bureau of Statistics)
It's great for personal use.
The extensions are valuable. I was able to download the extensions that were important to me. For example, I can use the solution to highlight syntax on the code or change the theme of Visual Studio. Or, if I'm working on PHP, I can download the PHP extension. If it's Python, I can download Python extensions. Et cetera. It's flexible and gives you options.
The solution can scale. The solution is also very stable.
It's updated regularly.
The cost is reasonable, and they do have a free option.
View full review »I think it is very successful and easy to use. I currently do not see any areas to develop. Microsoft Visual Studio is an excellent product.
View full review »It is easy to integrate with GitHub. We integrate with GitHub, and we deploy our solution on our local system. We need this integration for pushing our code. When we were working with Eclipse, we had to write everything in the command prompt, which is a little bit tricky, whereas Visual Studio is very much UI-based and simple. So, it's very easy to integrate GitHub with Visual Studio. It is much easier than Eclipse.
It is also good for debugging.
View full review »It's an excellent tool in general. There are a lot of features that are very, very nice in Visual Studio.
We can publish directly to the premise's servers. I was testing how to publish in a cloud using Azure and it was very easy. There are a lot of good features in Visual Studio and I'm sure we can add different add-ins or add-ons to make it a little more functional as well.
We can manage our code directly via the repository. We are trying to manage the code in DevOps. With Visual Studio, we can connect to DevOps and manage the different versions that we have using the repository.
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reviewer2308848
Architect at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
The valuable feature is that it provides a basic template for everything and built-in debugging tools. They definitely save me time.
Compared to 2019, the 2022 version runs much smoother. The older version used to freeze if I had too many consoles open. The 2022 version is lighter and performs significantly better. Also, the ID itself is quite lightweight.
The UI is fine; they've kept it consistent for a while now, so it's familiar.
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Sipho Ngubonde
Admin at IEC (Electoral Commission of South Africa)
The most valuable features of Microsoft Visual Studio are the way we are able to design code, deploy, and test our application. It is easy to move an artifact from the start to the deployment stage. It has well-defined processes that you can integrate with any team. Additionally, the solution is always improving.
View full review »It's a very easy-to-use product.
The support is great. The community and the documentation support for it are great. Whatever you are missing, you are going to find it at Microsoft help.
It's easy to set up.
The stability is good.
You can scale it well.
View full review »The most valuable aspect of this solution is the integrated development environment. It also offers a very good integration with Microsoft Cloud.
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Edison Marques
System administrator and network manager at MEO
The solution's most valuable feature is its integration with various platforms.
View full review »The codes and the code areas are valuable features.
View full review »The most valuable features are the extensions. Microsoft Visual Studio has a large community with different types of extensions.
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reviewer1185063
Sr. Manager of Software and Controls at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
The most valuable features of Microsoft Visual Studio are debugging and IntelliSense.
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Zhu Lei
R&D Director at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Visual Studios is a business solution developed by Microsoft. In general, I like it because it integrates many tools into one interface to provide a total solution. I think it is convenient to have everything in one interface.
View full review »You can use the solution to do coding and drag and drop. It is easy to install with web documentation.
View full review »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.
View full review »Visual Studio's best feature is debugging, which isn't available with any other Microsoft development tool.
View full review »I like that it works fine and that it performs better than competing products. I'm very happy with Microsoft Visual Studio.
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reviewer1346682
Lead Technical Consultant (Information Technology) at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees
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.
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Siddarth Nair
Tech Lead at Abtran
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.
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Siddarth Nair
Tech Lead at Abtran
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.
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reviewer2216280
Software Developer at a financial services firm with 1-10 employees
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.
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reviewer1358424
Senior Software Engineer at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
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.
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reviewer1016499
Sr. Managing Consultant - Data Driven Enterprise at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable features of Microsoft Visual Studio are the database connections.
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Cengiz Yalcin
IT Global Operations Manager at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees
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.
View full review »The solution is user-friendly.
View full review »We like Visual Studio because you can choose the different types of languages, like JavaScript. I think it's better than the other solutions I used.
View full review »The most valuable feature is the lightweight cross-platform support and the robust architecture. You can easily create, edit, and test any software and develop applications for all the major platforms, including cloud, desktop, and mobile.
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reviewer1893846
Solutions Consultant at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
It has perfect integration into Microsoft. It goes straight to Azure, and it is massive. It can get very complicated, but because our customers use it, we need to work with them and discuss certain aspects of automation and security settings.
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Dexter Baur-Schmidt
Software Development Quality Assurance Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The feature I find most valuable is the fact that it's broad-spectrum, so it can be used for a wide variety of technologies. We are predominately .NET based and we use mostly .NET Core or .NET Framework so I can call in any immediate packages.
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Shafeeq Ahamed
Enterprise Solutions Department Manager at Smart Vision
I like the IDE or the integrated development environment. It's the best IDE.
View full review »The most valuable features of Microsoft Visual Studio are the availability of many extensions, an interpreter, a code formator, and helpful dark and light modes.
View full review »The most valuable feature is how smoothly it runs.
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RahimKhowaja
Chief Information Technology Officer at BMC Solutions
The solution is a very good tool. I like the performance, stability and ease of use.
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reviewer1479564
Contractor/ Developer at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Basically everything. It's a useful integrated development environment.
It is easy to use.
It is simple to use for me.
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OnyaToochukwu
CEO/Programmer at Tech Elight
The language syntax is great because it is similar to the human language, very easy to understand and to work with.
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reviewer1249881
Software Designer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Visual Studio makes it easier to compile the code and shows me the errors upfront when coding. For example, it will tell me when a reference is incorrect or if there's a mistake within the function calls. I like how it highlights with a red underline so that I know there's an error at that point.
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reviewer1016499
Sr. Managing Consultant - Data Driven Enterprise at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable feature is the integration with different databases. There are many different databases that it supports.
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The Visual Studio IDE is excellent in design and function. It allows you to code for a wide variety of software, including web and platform software. It supports quite a few different programming languages. It also has a GUI based visual interface editor built in, which is easy to use and allows for quick turn around in prototyping software designs.There is a free "Express" version of the IDE software available as well.
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Devuser678
Developer at a tech services company
I really like the distributed software programming on the Windows platform and also we need to develop on this platform since the company's computers work with the Windows network. I like that I don't need any additional software to develop on this platform.
View full review »Personally, in my job as a developer, the version control system has been very helpful. It is also flexible enough to let me use Git as well as its own version control mechanism.
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Robert Cattral
Works
Support for many languages and cross-platform development makes it highly versatile.
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Juan Penaherrera
Ingeniero de DevOps at Babel Software
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.
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It was in 2004 when I first experienced Visual Studio 2003 as an IT student. Now that I am working as a programmer, I used the newer version which is Visual Studio 2008. Here are the few reasons why I chose .Net for so many years:
• I can create console, Windows form, Web Forms, Smart device and mobile applications, XML web and windows services using different languages such as Visual Basic, C#, J# and C++
• I love the drag and drop ability of the items and controls using Visual Designers
• I love the Toolbox with many useful and unique items that even Netbeans or Eclipse does not have such as Timer, DateTimePicker, Process Dialog and etc.
• I adore the integrated, highly professional looking Crystal in VS 2008 and later versions
• Express editions are free and suitable for students
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I think the code management is the most convenient and valuable new feature. Deployment of the solution is also a very smooth process.
It provides manageable code execution, it's object oriented, the .net framework comes with ado.net, it uses xml to transfer data between the various layers in the architecture, has error handling properties, automatic memory management, disconnected architecture, and is a multi-platform application. It is a consistent programming model, has multi-language integration, and ease of development.
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- Code navigation by symbols
- Document auto formatting
- Testing tools
- Publishing tools
- Performance testing
- Reference usage
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).
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Buyer's Guide
Microsoft Visual Studio
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Microsoft Visual Studio. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.