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Visual Studio IDE Review

Visual Studio IDE OUR SCORE 90%
starting price $45
our score 90%
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  1. What is Visual Studio IDE
  2. Product Quality Score
  3. Main Features
  4. List of Benefits
  5. Technical Specifications
  6. Available Integrations
  7. Customer Support
  8. Pricing Plans
  9. Other Popular Software Reviews

What is Visual Studio IDE?

Visual Studio IDE is a comprehensive development platform for cloud, web and multiple operating systems. It provides users with a smooth interface that is easy to navigate, allowing for faster and more accurate coding. Developers will have access to a range of debugging tools which facilitates in diagnosing and profiling bugs. This would give programmers the confidence of deploying their applications because they know that they’ve got a set of tools which monitors any troubles that might cause performance errors. Furthermore, Visual Studio IDE functions as a testing platform too. The IDE can be used to simulate how applications will run in their selected environments. This is for ensuring that once the application is deployed, it will run smoothly as tested.

Product Quality Score

Features
9.0
Ease of use
9.1
Customer support
8.9
Value for money
9.0
9
TOTAL SCORE

Visual Studio IDE features

Main features of Visual Studio IDE are:

  • Visual Studio App Center
  • Visual Studio Team Services
  • Office 365 Developer
  • SharePoint
  • Power BI Pro
  • Developer Tools
  • Office Professional Plus
  • Azure Developer Services
  • SQL
  • Windows & Windows Server
  • Exchange

Visual Studio IDE Benefits

Benefits

The main benefits of Visual Studio IDE are its features that provide coding assistance to developers, rigorous testing that can be done inside the platform, support for team collaboration, and a variety of customization options. Here are more details:

Coding assistance

Regardless of the programming language being used, Visual Studio IDE offers users with a real-time coding assistant. Its built-in IntelliSense provides descriptions and hints about the API. It also helps in expediting the process through its auto-complete feature. Moreover, Visual Studio IDE makes sure that developers don’t lose the last modification they made as they go through the rest of the code.

Testing platform

The IDE has a host of tools, which are available to all languages, for easily finding and diagnosing bugs. The debugging process can also be done remotely, locally, or even in the middle of production. Aside from that, Visual Studio IDE is equipped with an application testing platform which empowers developers in making sure that the products they will deploy are of high quality. Thanks to this, programmers can shift their energies on other aspects of development instead of spending too much time debugging errors.

Collaboration support

Visual Studio IDE’s makers believe that more set of eyes can do better than just one which is why the platform is equipped with collaborative capabilities, thus increasing the productivity of the team. All these tools are natively integrated within the development lifecycle.

High customizability

Every user is provided with various customization options by the IDE in different forms, one of which is extending functionalities by using add-ons and extensions are available from Visual Studio Marketplace. On top of that, developers can also publish their very own extensions or add-ons.

Technical Specifications

Devices Supported

  • Web-based
  • iOS
  • Android
  • Desktop

Customer types

  • Small business
  • Medium business
  • Enterprise

Support Types

  • Phone
  • Online

Visual Studio IDE Integrations

The following Visual Studio IDE integrations are currently offered by the vendor:

No information available.

Video

Customer Support

Phone
Online

Pricing Plans

Visual Studio IDE pricing is available in the following plans:

Free trial
CLOUD VISUAL STUDIO ENTERPRISE
$250.00/month
CLOUD VISUAL STUDIO PROFESSIONAL
$45.00/month
FOR DEVELOPERS VISUAL STUDIO ENTERPRISE
$5,999.00/user/first year
FOR DEVELOPERS VISUAL STUDIO PROFESSIONAL
$1,199.00/user/first year
FOR TESTERS & IT PROFESSIONALS MSDN PLATFORMS
$0
FOR TESTERS & IT PROFESSIONALS VS TEST PROFESSIONALS
$2,169.00/user/first year