Microsoft Visual Studio Review

PROS: Down to its core, Visual Studio is an attractive and functional environment for writing code. It can be done anywhere from backend web services to full-stack development. Even if there are folks out there who don't mind the software's feel or design, I can still appreciate its dark theme. It helps me work for longer periods.

CONS: The only quarrel I have here is that its own Intellisense can be ---- too intelligent for my liking. It keeps on adding stuff that I wasn't trying to. But best believe, its benefits far outweigh the cost. As a matter of fact, turning it off hasn't crossed my mind.

PROS: In own personal opinion, Visual Studio happens to be a top-of-the-line IDE. It's the latest in C#, .NET, and Visual Basic development for the Windows OS. Some versions are free while others come with an MSDN subscription. These days there are variants that run on both Mac OS and Linux. Microsoft is doing so much today that also includes the ability to run on products that don't run Microsoft.

CONS: It's a bit costly if a portion of your business involves only Windows development. From my perspective, other tools are available for web development if you happen to not be utilizing .NET. The Team Foundation Version is getting a bad reputation for not living up to its ability as the rest seen within Visual Studio.

PROS: A majority of its powerful functionality includes debugging, Intellisense, and a bunch of others. Its latest release now provides code analysis as well as github in tfs. It does a good job helping a developer function in a wide range of programming languages. A functionality is available that allows it connect with nuget packages.

CONS: Absolutely nothing that I dislike. I've used it for several years now and I love everything it does. As a result of poor configuration from my laptop, it would take Visual Studio a bit of time to configure and process. Maybe it's a tad bit heavy on resources. It would significantly slow my laptop down.

PROS: Its Intellisense is simply the best that I've ever seen. There are a bunch of things that I also like. It's difficult to pick out which one works best. Every version being put out has a lot of features. The wide range of applications for development makes IDE an all-around winner.

CONS: IDE seems to lack some themes. I like its black variant. But it'd be nice to have other colors available so it's easier to read things. I don't like its white theme. I prefer using a blend of white-black theme although seeing other colors in the mix would be cool.

PROS: Being a front end developer, I began coding with Dreamweaver. As I entered the world of business, I had to utilize Visual Studio. When I first used it, I absolutely hated it. But after several years, I fell in love with everything it's offering. It's getting better with each update and I like its add-on apps as it made things easier for me dealing with coding work.

CONS: Nothing much to hate. I had to include a plugin capable of disabling the code zooming. I tend to accidently zoom code whenever I scroll upward/downward my current page.

PROS: So far, it's debuggin and testing functionality are great. I like how each user can switch them to help enhancing their experience in coding. I like its dark theme. Intellisense has been a huge help. I began coding within C# sometime back and it was very much convenient to look at pertinent details that are related to my code.

CONS: Visual Studio will significantly put other processes to a crawl. This is due to its significantly heavy build. The latest version appears to be working a lot efficiently compared to its older version.

PROS: It's able to handle a huge chunk of files. That's a great thing as I'm handling a large batch of XML files. Checking docs is simple. You get to compare which versions you want to keep. You can map a directory to a specific location to your local hard drive.

CONS: It's tedious in reconciling differences happening between sever and local copies. There have been certain scenarios where I'd think it'd be simple to get the two locations to match. But it can entail some manual approach within Visual Studio. I didn't like the fact that I'd have to undo changes to a file before deleting it.

PROS: One of Visual Studio's standout functionality is IntelliSense. A lot of IDEs possess it but the one it has is a lot functionality. This is because it showcases errors and suggestions. Even when utilizing the function/method, it'll showcase a short documentation. A documentation is also shown for the present parameter. Other awesome functioanlity includes a profiler and a built-in debugger.

CONS: Visual Studio is one awesome IDE. But nothing comes in perfect. One downside is that it lack support for certain languages. Another is that despite Microsoft claiming you programming the C/C++ programs for Linux via Visual Studio, it's still considered immature. The reason is the lack of semaphore, pthread, and unistd.