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[Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/product/410128-microsoft-visual-studio/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/product/410128-microsoft-visual-studio/alternatives/) # Microsoft Visual Studio User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.6/5 - Total reviews: 3,017 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.3/5 - Customer support: 4.2/5 - Value for money: 4.4/5 - Functionality: 4.6/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 1,978 reviews (66%) - 4 stars: 936 reviews (31%) - 3 stars: 90 reviews (3%) - 2 stars: 9 reviews (0%) - 1 star: 4 reviews (0%) ### Most mentioned pros - I liked Visual Studio’s powerful IDE features, including advanced debugging, IntelliSense, integrated testing, and seamless integration with Microsoft tools, which significantly boost developer productivity. - With support for various code bases, as well as HTML, the programme provides all you need for building and developing websites, email, applications and widgets. - I use the free version cause in all reality the free version does almost everything the paid version is pretty much for teams free version is good for individuals. ### Most mentioned cons - There is really not much cons about the software, it's pretty straightforward in terms of it's installation, where it gets kinda messy might be when you install compilers, or stuff like that sometimes those installations might mess up the function of the program. - I have nothing that I specifically dislike about Visual Studio. If I had to choose one item it would be the fact that a user could feel "forced" to start using MS Copilot by virtue of it being so integrated into the latest versions of VS. - Controls are very poor in UI and the development of MAUI/XML languages does not provide a kind of "preview" mode. ## Microsoft Visual Studio customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 3,017 (page 1). ### Powerful IDE for professional development work - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Junaid E. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Hospitality - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall, Microsoft Visual Studio is dependable IDE designed for serious development work. it excels in building, debugging, and maintaining complex applications. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Microsoft Visual Studio is a powerful and complete development environment that brings everything you need into one place. User Interface looks great and easy to navigate around. #### Cons Visual Studio can feel heavy and resource intensive, espacially on lower spec machines. Startup time and updates can be slow and the large number of features can be overwhelming for beginners. --- ### The best coding platform there is - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Laurentiu B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Retail - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. It is a great experience overall, i wouldnt change it with another platform. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Easy to use, the interface is accessible and it comes packed with features that make development easier. Code navigation is also easy to do. I also love the fact that visual studio provides Integrated Git Support and also integrates with so many different programming languages. #### Cons Aside of the occasional bugs and crashes, one minus would be limited support for non-Microsoft languages. #### Reasons for switching to Microsoft Visual Studio It was the company's decision but i am very happy with it! --- ### Experience - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Jatin B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Retail - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2026 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered In my own experience I'm very satisfied with the overall experience in the visual studio working very best #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Visual code now is much more better than the previous one always getting better better it's so satisfactory to see like this for me my personal experience Says it's Goin to be more fun in the future #### Cons Sometimes with the the minimum specs it's lag alot and sometimes it's crashes also should work on that by visual studio --- ### Good development environment - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Parsa G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros what I like the most is how complete it is for development. Code editing, debugging, build tools, extensions, and project management all work well together, especially for larger applications stuff. #### Cons It can feel heavy and resource intensive. It also takes time to learn, and somce features can be harder to find than they should be I believe. --- ### Visual Studio is still the king - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Paul S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Visual Studio gets more powerful with each new version. What it can do is almost endless. Working on enterprise level Windows OS solutions, it is still the tool to use. Sometimes it can take a while to implement a feature, but you never fear that with Visual Studio it cannot be done. It is still the most powerful development environment for our needs. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros With Visual Studio you can develop the most complex enterprise level applications, especially for Windows operating systems. It provides comprehensive features and third party plugins, great debugging, vast documentation and support, and of course, integration to the Microsoft ecosystem. #### Cons Visual Studio is resource intensive and requires a decent machine. There is a steep learning curve, even for experienced users, for each new version, as the feature set is so vast. Works great for Windows (obviously) - support for other platforms is limited. Other than the free community edition, the paid versions can be expensive for individuals. --- ### Good IDE for C# - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Health, Wellness and Fitness - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall good a lot of features are available for advanced programmers and very useful for C# programming. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Microsoft Visual Studio has been a great IDE for implementing our web app in an ASP.NET MVC pattern framework. This IDE is very helpful with complete features for C# programming. #### Cons Microsoft Visual Studio features are complex which have a high learning curve that is not typical for beginners. It is also consumes higher system resources than other IDE's. --- ### It is widely used AI tool - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Mudit M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. It has been great using VS code and Microsoft visual studio. Looking forward to future updates that should have more AI features #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros VS code is easy to use , it offers a great platform for the devs to build,write code . It has 2 color modes to interact with giving it a good ux #### Cons The AI plugins are not built in . One needs to install external plugins to enable AI intellisense. Most plugins have AI now --- ### Easy and helpful coding app - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Simon S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: March 2026 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered My experience with Visual Studio is good. It has guides and helps for learning code. Customer support helps if there is a problem. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros I like Visual Studio because it is easy to use. I can write code and build projects. It helps me learn programming. It has many tools and good features. The interface is easy to understand and use. #### Cons Sometimes it is slow when projects are big. Some advanced features need the paid version. It can be confusing for beginners. --- ### Great for beginners or pros - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Jon J. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Dairy - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: January 2026 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered A modern and clean interface with excellent community built around it. There are few development environments that compare. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros MS Visual Studio is easy to use, and flexible for use across a wide range of development environments. With support for various code bases, as well as HTML, the programme provides all you need for building and developing websites, email, applications and widgets. A clear and clean interface, with great community support, documentation and plugins. #### Cons Nothing to dislike really. With plenty of online tuition, forums and community support; you can do whatever you want - guided by the system. --- ### Visual Studio for the win. - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Wesley W. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Hardware - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Phenomenal experience. It's helped me and my team create many apps and fix numerous amounts of problems. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The amount of options available that cover all aspects of app development is extremely useful and makes it very easy to build and develope. #### Cons The layout can be a bit much at first but after using it for a while it grows on you and becomes easier. --- ### Microsoft Visual Studio-Visualize Your Code - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered The experience was Great as visual studio provides best environment for coding and web development, it also provides Emmet abbreviations which are very useful for beginners and it also has a built in GitHub support which comes in handy while working on opensource #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The thing I like most in visual studio code is that it provides a good environment for coding in all languages C++, java, TypeScript etc. It also provides live server to see your webpage while you create it. #### Cons The thing I like least is that Visual studio is highly dependent on extensions to support languages and many features, some of these extensions are buggy which sometimes cause problems. #### Reasons for switching to Microsoft Visual Studio more features, live share and good GitHub support --- ### "Exploring Visual Studio Code: A User's Perspective" - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: karthik s. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Oil & Energy - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Visual Studio Code has been an indispensable tool in my development journey. Its versatility, with support for multiple languages, extensions, and a seamless user interface, has made it my go-to code editor. From coding and debugging to version control and project management, VS Code has simplified it all. It's not just a code editor; it's a productivity booster. Whether I'm working on personal projects or collaborating with teams, VS Code's ease of use and customization have been game-changers. It's become an integral part of my daily workflow, and I can't imagine coding without it #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Visual Studio Code's coolest feature, in my opinion, is that you can write code in lots of different programming languages. It's like having one tool that can do it all. Whether you're working on a website in HTML, a game in Python, or an app in JavaScript, VS Code has you covered. You don't have to switch between different programs, which can be a pain. It's like having a Swiss Army knife for coding – super handy and saves you time! Plus, you can add extra tools to VS Code to make it even better for each language you use. It's like having a personalized coding helper right at your fingertips. That's what makes VS Code so awesome! #### Cons Integrate built-in testing with analytics in VS Code for smarter development and data-driven marketing decisions. #### Reasons for switching to Microsoft Visual Studio because vs code have ability to run all the languages in it but is not same in other apps so i like vs cod so much --- ### Great to Use and to Learn From - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Chet C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I have used Microsoft Visual Studio as a developer and have taught students software development on this platform. It is a great platform to use and also to learn from. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Microsoft Visual Studio is a robust development environment that is a great tool for the beginner and experienced software developers. #### Cons While I understand that software has to be upgraded, it is not a fun experience dealing with the many versions of Visual Studio. It is a necessary evil but I wish there was a better way. --- ### Fast and easy editor for daily use - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Guntas G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Lightweight and responsive, works well out of the box whit most language. Extension market make it powerful fast. #### Cons Lot of update notification and settings menu can be confusing at first, and git integration sometimes feel not super intuitive. --- ### My opinion is in the application microsoft visual studio - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: hamza m. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Program Development - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered It helped me to get to know the design, and I have instructed many friends to use it #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It helps us design great programs Which contributes to developing our business #### Cons A lot of complications and work on it is not easily as many people want it --- ### Best Windows App IDE - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Jeremy B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer & Network Security - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Solid IDE for Windows, not sure there is anything else out there that compares #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Best IDE out there for Microsoft Windows application development, IntelliSense and Copilot together make development a breeze #### Cons Performance impact can be pretty severe, not cross-platform so not great for macos users --- ### Usage of microsoft visual studio - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: SREEREKHA B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Good to integrate and debug the visual badic coding. Has in built functions and help files #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Convenient to use for coding visual badic #### Cons It only supports microsoft tools snd software --- ### The best IDE for C# - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Fernando V. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall, it is the best IDE for C# development, and one of the best IDEs in general for design and functionality. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I like the speed and stability of the IDE, the design and of course the unrivalled support for C# development. #### Cons The performance is sometimes an issue and the license costs are steep, although VS Community is free. --- ### Great Code Editor - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Keith T. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. My experience with Visual Studio has been great so far. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros It is one of my favorite code editors to work in because of how easy it is to use. #### Cons I prefer the UI of Visual Studio Code better because of the UI layout. --- ### Visual Studio Code: Lightweight coding - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Thomas S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Marketing and Advertising - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. It provides a clean, fast environment that eliminates the superfluous, as a result of which, it makes the coding process flow very neatly #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros It is the most suitable product for the beginners who want not only to learn fast but also to be sure of the shortest way and for the experienced developers, those who are eager for time efficiency #### Cons As compared to full IDEs, the app might not contain all necessary function, therefore, some of them you will need to add as a separate extension or configure --- ### Ide for coding - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Luca L. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Packaging and Containers - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros "I have been using Visual Studio for a long time to develop desktop applications for Windows in a business environment. With .NET and Visual Studio, I believe it is easy to create graphical user interfaces and implement even complex operational logic." #### Cons Probably functions/menu are bit too complex and confusing when you have to search something. The search in "settings" is useful --- ### Visual Studio: A Powerful Tool But Resource Heavy - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Wendy C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Higher Education - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered My experience has been great with Microsoft Visual Studio. It really helps me to do programming in multi languages effectively because it offers the option to work on different language. Also I can debug code easily because its simple. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I like the most about Microsoft Visual Studio is its large size of community whenever I get into any trouble I can easily find different solution. It offers to add as much extensions as I want to work smoothly on my project. #### Cons I noticed it takes a while to get load which is not a pleasure thing in my view also it uses a large junk of my memory and CPU which cause slower down the rest of the computer. --- ### IDE for all your code editing - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Issac P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Automotive - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Visual studio is the IDE I use daily as it is very reliable and has a User friendly interface and supports code editing in every programming language #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I use it as my default IDE For editing code in python .It has options to download extensions example the python extension can be downloaded which helps in auto completing the code as well as for highlighting syntax errors.Any extension can be easily downloaded #### Cons After a new extension is installed you need to restart the code file for the extensions to take effect in the file which is extra effort --- ### my review - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Tijuan A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Business Supplies and Equipment - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for free trial - Reviewed: January 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered In summary, projections in Visual Basic can be performed using a variety of tools and techniques, such as LINQ and the Select method. These tools provide a simple and intuitive way to transform data into a different format, making it easy to work with data in Visual Basic and providing a lot of flexibility when working with data in different contexts. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros a lot of flexibility when working with data in different contexts. #### Cons the ability to connect to various databases such as SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle and many more. Developers can use the built-in tools to connect to the database, create tables, and perform basic data operation #### Reasons for choosing Microsoft Visual Studio linux --- ### Microsoft Visual Studio Review - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Nishedh J. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered One of the best IDE for software development as it is easy to use, it supports intelligence, supports coding, designing, debugging, testing and deployment. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros One of the best Integrated Development Environment as supports coding, designing, debugging, testing and deployment. It supports multi language such as C#, javascript, Typescript etc. #### Cons It might be complex for beginner's, need license to run as a professional. #### Reasons for choosing Microsoft Visual Studio It supports multi language, easy to integrate with Microsoft eco system, intelligence, quick community support etc. ## More reviews [Next reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/product/410128-microsoft-visual-studio/reviews/?page=2) --- Microsoft Visual Studio Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice