We performed a comparison between Microsoft Visual Studio and Zend Studio based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Adobe, FourJs and others in .NET Development Services."We can write programming code, write our test cases and automate tests in Visual Studio.NET."
"It is also flexible enough to let me use Git as well as its own version control mechanism."
"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."
"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."
"I like that it works fine and that it performs better than competing products. I'm very happy with Microsoft Visual Studio."
"The installation of the solution is easy."
"I like it that I don't need any special software to run this program."
"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."
"It has the ability to jump to any file in your project with a few keystrokes, as well as the ability to command-click on any token in your code and have it jump to the token's definition."
"It has higher quality code, faster debugging, and higher quality projects."
"There is room for improvement in the price of the solution overall."
"There's not much help to deal with issues on Microsoft's official websites."
"Despite its advantages, challenges in diverse cloud environments may prompt the uninstallation of the application or entire development environment for resolution."
"I would not recommend it for complex tasks."
"The GUI of Microsoft Visual Studio could improve."
"I would like to see Visual Studio improve reporting to give us more details on failures. When there are failures, it's difficult to debug. It would be helpful to have more error information to help us to identify the issue and resolve it. I want to know more about software failures and exceptions in the system."
"This solution could be integrated with other open-source languages, such as Python and not only C#, .NET or Microsoft development languages."
"IntelliSense could be better."
"Stability is sometimes lacking in updates."
"The debugger often has problems determining where to map files to local projects."
"Most recent set of patches (2018) on Mac OS X caused the app to crash when you would cut more than 10 lines of code. Apparently, this was due to a bug in Eclipse, but regardless, it took several months for Zend to post a patch."
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Microsoft Visual Studio is ranked 1st in .NET Development Services with 79 reviews while Zend Studio is ranked 8th in .NET Development Services. Microsoft Visual Studio is rated 8.4, while Zend Studio is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Visual Studio writes "Easy to use, works well in the Microsoft Windows ecosystem, and integrates well with Git". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zend Studio writes "It has higher quality code, faster debugging, and higher quality projects". Microsoft Visual Studio is most compared with SharePoint Designer, Genero and Microsoft Silverlight, whereas Zend Studio is most compared with .
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