Microsoft Visual Studio Reviews

Name: Microsoft Visual Studio
Brand: Microsoft
Rating: 4 (79 reviews)

Vendor: Microsoft

4.2 out of 5

79 reviews
95% willing to recommend

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Visual Studio.NET is the umbrella that represents the key pieces of the .NET platform delivered from Microsoft, including the .NET Framework, the recently announced .NET Core, and a shared common layer of packages, compilers and runtime. Read this .NET blog post about the evolution of the platform and the different pieces that make .NET 2015.

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Microsoft Visual Studio is the #1 ranked solution in top .NET Development Services. PeerSpot users give Microsoft Visual Studio an average rating of 8.4 out of 10. Microsoft Visual Studio is most commonly compared to SharePoint Designer: Microsoft Visual Studio vs SharePoint Designer. Microsoft Visual Studio is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 59% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a comms service provider, accounting for 18% of all views.

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Paco Velasco Reina

CTO at Open HealthCare

Sep 10, 2023

My first use case was to develop Microsoft Windows tools in .Net Framework (formerly from 3.5). Later I developed web platforms in ASP .NET and lately, I have developed APIs in both .NET Framework and NET Core, the latest in NET 6. The platforms that I develop in Windows environments and do not…

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LorenzoMoore

IT Project Manager (Assistant Director, Technology Division) at a government with 10,001+ employees

Jul 1, 2022

I am using Microsoft Visual Studio for software development Microsoft Visual Studio has improved the way our organization functions by allowing us to develop applications rapidly. The most valuable feature of Microsoft Visual Studio is the user interface. I have been using Microsoft Visual…

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Vishal Paliwal

Xamarin Developer at Cognizant

Aug 23, 2022

I'm using Visual Studio 2022 on a MacBook. The installation process is not difficult. It's good overall. The solution is stable. We have no issues with scaling. I don't know what area needs to be better. Every time it updates, there are issues. It alerts to an exception and then quits. They…

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Microsoft Visual Studio market share

As of March 2024, the market share of Microsoft Visual Studio in the .NET Development Services category stands at 23.3%, marking a decrease of 4.7% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

"You can use the solution to do coding and drag and drop. It is easy to install with web documentation."
"The valuable feature is that it provides a basic template for everything and built-in debugging tools. They definitely save me time."
"We use the solution to develop applications."

Room for Improvement

"Microsoft Visual Studio needs to improve integration."
"The hot reload feature is good, but sometimes it doesn't work. It could be improved."
"Microsoft Visual Studio needs to improve integration."