2018-07-15T09:16:00Z

What needs improvement with Microsoft Visual Studio?

Julia Miller - PeerSpot reviewer
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Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2023-12-14T11:45:09Z
Dec 14, 2023

We have different platforms available for web development. The solution must provide user-friendly features. We get updates frequently. Multiple versions are released within a short period. We need to keep updating the solution.

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Erick  Karanja - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2023-12-13T10:56:06Z
Dec 13, 2023

Microsoft Visual Studio needs to improve integration.

PK
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2023-12-12T16:16:42Z
Dec 12, 2023

The hot reload feature is good, but sometimes it doesn't work. It could be improved. Also, the solution is heavy. If it could become lighter, it would attract a larger user base.

AO
Real User
Top 20
2023-12-12T13:36:56Z
Dec 12, 2023

When using Visual Support for web development, challenges arise when specific components require hardware configurations beyond the application's scope. Efforts are directed at enhancing the IDE and introducing features for seamless collaboration, extending to Azure with the Explore version. This version incorporates "live share," enabling real-time code collaboration among team members. Despite its advantages, challenges in diverse cloud environments may prompt the uninstallation of the application or entire development environment for resolution.

Andres  Alberdi - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2023-08-30T14:03:00Z
Aug 30, 2023

Visual Studio Team System needs to improve documentation.

AA
Real User
Top 5
2023-07-17T10:51:00Z
Jul 17, 2023

They could add new modules to the platform for enhanced functioning. If we have a new system, we can add new features and improve the product to make it better than the previous system.

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Darko Margetic - PeerSpot reviewer
MSP
Top 5
2023-02-28T17:07:22Z
Feb 28, 2023

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

Deni Herdian - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5
2022-12-12T07:24:00Z
Dec 12, 2022

Microsoft Visual Studio can improve integration with the Microsoft Office suite; this was only implemented in 2022. Why this is important is that almost all companies have MS Office to work with, and nowadays, automation is becoming an effective role model to increase company efficiency and can save operational costs and purchase technology licenses. Microsoft Visual Studio can be used to create applications that integrate directly with the Microsoft Office suite. This includes Office applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. With this integration, enterprises can create powerful applications that utilize existing Office features and capabilities. For example, I can use Visual Studio to create a custom Excel add-in that adds new features and capabilities to a spreadsheet application. Then I can also create Outlook add-ins that provide additional functionality to the email client. Additionally, Visual Studio could be used to create applications that interact with Office documents, enabling companies to develop sophisticated applications that interact with Office documents in new and exciting ways.

Goran Peterson - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant
Top 10
2022-10-19T13:23:19Z
Oct 19, 2022

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.

SC
Real User
Top 10
2022-10-14T18:31:38Z
Oct 14, 2022

For Visual Studio, the only challenge I've faced is referencing any package or new concept I'm trying to debug or run. For example, with Visual Studio, you must import a package if you're doing any specific development. You need to import that package if you're developing a specific programming language. Maybe they could have a framework that includes everything. Sometimes you have to go out of your way and search for a specific package so that you have the code that you need. It's too soon for me to provide feedback for Visual Studio since I've not been an active user of that software for very long. Maybe they could have documentation that includes everything so the information you need is easy to find.

SN
Real User
Top 20
2022-08-12T16:34:09Z
Aug 12, 2022

Technical support can be slow to respond at times.

ZK
Real User
Top 20
2022-08-03T12:57:53Z
Aug 3, 2022

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

Nishan Timilsina - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2022-08-02T19:15:48Z
Aug 2, 2022

Microsoft Visual Studio can improve by adding more features to the Mac version. There are a lot of features lacking in the Mac version, there are limitations. I can install Microsoft Visual Studio on the Mac operating system, but it is not the same as if I installed it on a Microsoft Windows system. The Microsoft Windows version has a lot of features available in Microsoft Visual Studio.

SA
Real User
Top 20
2022-07-18T07:45:20Z
Jul 18, 2022

IntelliSense could be better.

Syed Masood - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2022-07-12T15:17:29Z
Jul 12, 2022

The GUI of Microsoft Visual Studio could improve.

CK
Real User
Top 20
2022-06-06T13:46:35Z
Jun 6, 2022

There's always room for improvement in any product, and in Microsoft Visual Studio, it can be spread into other areas of development and design. It's pretty much Microsoft-oriented at the moment. It can be spread into other open source or open source-based developments. That's why I gave it a rating of eight. There's always room for improvement, for example, the UI could be better, and development could be easier on Microsoft Visual Studio if there were more features like drag and drop and more frameworks, etc.

VM
Real User
Top 20
2022-05-25T17:34:26Z
May 25, 2022

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

VamsiKrishna2 - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2022-05-19T09:33:20Z
May 19, 2022

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

Azad Periwal - PeerSpot reviewer
Vendor
2022-04-30T18:43:35Z
Apr 30, 2022

It has a ton of options and that sometimes can become very, very overwhelming for a new person, a new developer. If something can be done around simplifying the product, for example, if there's a way, to just have enough options that are relevant for me, that could probably help. The upgrade system is a bit complex. If they're upgrading something, then they should not force us to go to the next version. Maybe they should probably just release a fix or something that, and once we implement that fix, it gives us at least a choice that you're good for some time even if you don't want to upgrade. A ton of time is just spent trying to keep ourselves up with the frequent releases that Microsoft rolls out. That is something that takes away from our productive time that we could have invested that time to enhance your application, and could have worked on additional features or functionalities, however, you end up spending that time just to upgrade your current solution to the next version that they roll out.

Patrik Plachy - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 20
2022-03-30T13:58:00Z
Mar 30, 2022

Visual Studio could be improved with the ability to personalize the interface and development style and to edit extension requirements.

JP
Real User
2022-02-17T21:54:41Z
Feb 17, 2022

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.

Sergio Aranda Parra - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
2022-01-20T10:39:36Z
Jan 20, 2022

You do need to do some training in order to really take advantage of the solution. Currently, we have issues when Visual Studio has updates. When Visual Studio has updates, right now we have issues in terms of updating our repositories. That was the current issue that we have. We need to update Visual Studio, however, we also need to update continuously the Visual Studio version due to the fact that if we don't update the Visual Studio, we have different problems that follow us. The initial setup can be a bit complex. The thing that is very important is to manage your requirements and the features that you need to develop using Visual Studio. DevOps has that feature available. When we connect Visual Studio or a project with DevOps, we can manage different work items. They could improve that feature, to manage the work items requirements and different things a bit better.

RK
Real User
2021-11-17T16:08:02Z
Nov 17, 2021

I would like to see more tools in the next release.

ZL
Real User
2020-09-27T04:09:54Z
Sep 27, 2020

I think that because it integrates many tools into one interface the startup is very slow. It would be nice if the startup speed could be improved. Maybe in the future, they can provide a better, lighter interface or something based in the cloud. It would be on Azure, for example, or other cloud providers. But I do not think Microsoft will have native support with AWS. We have not only purchased the Visual Studio, but we also subscribed to MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network). I like that this way we can always have the latest updates. All the products from Microsoft always have the most up-to-date functionality.

SN
Real User
Top 20
2020-07-19T08:15:39Z
Jul 19, 2020

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.

it_user1370709 - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
2020-07-15T07:11:00Z
Jul 15, 2020

I think the file installations could be improved because they're very heavy and I'd like to see the solution support Python for developing purposes.

HH
Real User
2020-06-21T08:08:13Z
Jun 21, 2020

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.

DB
Real User
2019-08-26T06:42:00Z
Aug 26, 2019

I would only say the deployment outline can be improved. We have shifted away from using Team Foundation Server, because it didn't work for our company. We shifted over to the Git approach and I do know that the Team Foundation Server has Git support. But we decided to rather go with GitLab as our main platform. In terms of more support I would like to have the ability to plug into other open source pools. I know that it's focused towards the whole Microsoft Suite so it's more geared towards the Team Foundation Server, but if they can add more support to pools, that would be great.

ZK
Real User
Top 20
2019-08-13T10:41:00Z
Aug 13, 2019

The reporting services are quite limited in terms of features and need to be improved. I would like to see installation and packaging features added to the next release of this solution.

OT
Real User
2019-04-08T19:56:00Z
Apr 8, 2019

A kind of tutorial page should be embedded in the software to enable first-time users learn more without the help of an expert. A page to explain most of the language syntax.

Real User
2019-04-02T03:49:00Z
Apr 2, 2019

Support for spell checking comments should be inbuilt and automatically installed.

CY
Real User
2018-07-15T09:16:00Z
Jul 15, 2018

I would like to see support for rapid application development. For example, if I am developing a new project, I am repeating many similar steps again and again and again. But the platform could do this easily, instead of me. It would save me time. This is something I would like to have in Microsoft Visual Studio, to have it take over repetitive tasks from me.

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