Microsoft Visual Studio

RATING:

4.6

(2917)

About Microsoft Visual Studio

Visual Studio is an application development solution that helps businesses create web, mobile, Mac and Windows-based applications and games. It allows developers to streamline processes related to debugging, testing, and deployment on a centralized platform. Visual Studio comes with built-in testing tools and project templates, which allows businesses to write, execute, and debug unit tests in multiple languages and test frameworks. It enables staff members to navigate codes, identify errors and apply code fixes. Administrators can utilize the live share module to set up collaborative code editing and debugging sessions with access rights and custom editor settings to enforce adherence to predefined coding guidelines. Additionally, it provides multiple keyboard sh...

Microsoft Visual Studio Pricing

<b>Free for the first 5 users €14.90/month for additional users</b>

Starting price: 

$45.00 per month

Free trial: 

Available

Free version: 

Available

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Microsoft Visual Studio Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4.5

Customer Support

4

Value for money

4.5

Functionality

4.5

Most Helpful Reviews for Microsoft Visual Studio

1 - 5 of 2,871 Reviews

Stefano

2 - 10 employees

Used less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

Reviewed October 2021

Very effective

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Carlos

Verified reviewer

Design, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed January 2022

This tools is a example to be followed.

I use day by day working with game development integrated with Unity and to prepare classes as a Professor in the area.

PROS

Microsoft Visual Studio is very well integrated to other tools for application and games programming. It is plenty of highlights and default settings that help the workflow! You only need to install and use, is much enough. But, it is possible customize as much as you want too. One of my favorite computational tools.

CONS

Sometimes it can be heavy for some computational systems, but it is not a big setback, because there is lighter version.

Reasons for switching to Microsoft Visual Studio

Unity's arrival was a revolution! And with Unity and Microsoft Visual Studio integration they made a nice pair.

VIKRAM

Commercial Real Estate, 11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed February 2024

Microsoft visual is very helpful for beginners

This is very helpful and powerful software for coding field

PROS

Easy to use autofill option in visual studio

CONS

Best interface it make easy for see any options and tools

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Jamie

Verified reviewer

Computer Software, 11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

3

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

2

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

1

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed June 2021

Visual Studio - a necessary evil in MS-land

I have had a love/hate relationship with Visual Studio for nearly 25 years. I've used it since it first came out as "Visual InterDev" back in the late 90s. Over the years I've learned that anything that Visual Studio automates for you will likely come back to haunt you. Couple that with the Visual Studio development team's inability to properly support legacy projects and it's a recipe for heartbreak, frustration, and thousands of lost work hours. Now that I use JetBrains Rider for the majority of my .NET coding, I see that most of my suffering over the years was unnecessary.

PROS

For developing Microsoft-based software, Visual Studio is sometimes the only tool that really gets the job done. It can, on occasion and in very specific development scenarios, be very helpful and intuitive to use. In recent years, its performance and usability in those narrow scenarios has improved significantly.

CONS

Visual Studio is an outright pig when it comes to performance and memory handling. It is unreliable as an application, crashing often and typically freezing up several times during a development session. This can often be due to the fact that you aren't doing things in the "Microsoft way" but that way is usually not realistic when it comes to getting actual projects done.

Fiach

Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

1

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed December 2023

The Defacto tool for Developing C Sharp applications

Worked with Visual Studio every single day of my development career. Perhaps 20+ Years. I know the interface better than any other piece of software.

PROS

Great debugging support, allows you to step through issues until you find the bug.

CONS

A resource hog, very slow startup. The first thing I do when starting visual studio is search for a project name, that I would have loaded within the last week. It takes ages (1 Min+) to find it, even if it is literally the 10th item on the list.

Reason for choosing Microsoft Visual Studio

Visual Studio is the official tool from microsoft. I wouldn't choose another.