Microsoft Visual Studio
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Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for building diverse digital solutions. It supports over 36 programming languages, includes a code editor with IntelliSense, a debugger, and designers for GUI, web, and databases. The Community edition is free and integrates with GitHub Copilot.
License model
- Free Personal • Proprietary
Application types
Country of Origin
United States
Platforms
- Windows
- Online
- .NET Framework
Features
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Recent News
- Fla published news article about GitHub CopilotGitHub Copilot now free for Microsoft Visual Studio users
GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio is now available for free, offering developers up to 2,000 complet...
- Maoholguin published news article about Microsoft Visual StudioVisual Studio 2022 launches stable version 17.11 & preview 17.12 with support for .NET 9
Microsoft has announced the stable release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 Version 17.11, aiming to...
- Maoholguin published news article about Microsoft Visual StudioMicrosoft announces the retirement of the Visual Studio for Mac version
Microsoft has revealed plans to discontinue Visual Studio for macOS, following a significant revamp...
Recent activities
- POX added Microsoft Visual Studio as alternative to roobuilder
- POX added Microsoft Visual Studio as alternative to Trae
- Danilo_Venom updated Microsoft Visual Studio
- julthep rated Microsoft Visual Studio
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Comments and Reviews
I have been using Visual Studio for 4 years and it hasn't let me down not even once. Most reliable, easy to use and powerful IDE I've ever tried.
Every time I have touched Visual Studio it has made me want to slam my head into the desk. It's a bloated mess (both in terms of resource usage, and in terms of trying to do too many things at once) and it's incredible how unstable it is. Files just... disappear, nowhere to be found. A resx file I haven't touched in weeks will suddenly become corrupt and then nothing works. Feels like I spend more time trying to undo VS's f*ckups than I do actually developing my project. It's gotten to the point that I have some catastrophic problem grind everything to a halt on an almost literally daily basis.
Bloated, slow, and awful to use. When trying to load a dotNET Core MAUI XAML project, this piece of crap crashes. Furthermore, the built-in XAML preview for said project does not even work.
If you want a better alternative IDE for dotNET that is way more streamlined, faster, and reliable, use JetBrains Rider instead.
Powerful, but extremely bloated and slow.
Non-free software
Bloated in a sense of being obese. It hogs my SSD and RAM memory because it's such a poor piece of software. Did I mention that it's almost impossible to have custom color themes or code macros. I don't want to be working like in the 80s.
On a side note, it's not actually free, when your team surpasses 5 members you gotta pay an unreasonable amount to Micro$oft. I'd rather not be a part of that "community", as in community edition.
I like VS because it covers all my needs from SQL over ASP.NET to web apps.