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Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Overview ### Who Uses Microsoft Visual Studio? Visual Studio is used by software developers, C\# programmers, .NET developers, C++ programmers, game developers, cloud architects, and DevOps engineers. ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.6/5** | 3007 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support Software | 4.2/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Microsoft - **Location**: Redmond, US - **Founded**: 1975 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: $499.92 - **Pricing model**: Per User (Free version available) (Free Trial) - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop), Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile) - **Supported Languages**: Chinese, English, French, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian - **Available Countries**: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Mexico, United States ## Features - API - Animation Software - Code Development - Code Editing - Collaboration Tools - Data Modeling - Debugging - Deployment Management - For Developers - Graphical User Interface - Integrated Development Environment ## Integrations (5 total) - Git - GitHub - Microsoft Azure - Microsoft SQL Server - Unity ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base Software - Chat ## Category - [Game Development Software](https://www.capterra.in/directory/30951/game-development/software) ## Related Categories - [Game Development Software](https://www.capterra.in/directory/30951/game-development/software) - [Integrated Development Environment (IDE) Software](https://www.capterra.in/directory/32755/integrated-development-environment-%28ide%29/software) - [App Development Software](https://www.capterra.in/directory/30082/application-development/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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[Bitbucket](https://www.capterra.in/software/157785/bitbucket) — 4.6/5 (1346 reviews) ## Reviews ### "Uses of Microsoft Visual Studio" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *17 March 2025* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Microsoft Visual Studio have Features like Remote-SSH, Dev Containers, and WSL make it easy to work on cloud-based or remote projects. > > **Cons**: VS Code can slow down when handling very large projects, especially with thousands of files or heavy extensions. > > My experience with Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) has been extremely positive, making it my go-to code editor for web development, scripting, and data analysis. It provides a perfect balance of speed, flexibility, and powerful features, making coding more efficient and enjoyable. ----- ### "Microsoft Visual Studio-Visualize Your Code" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *3 February 2025* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **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. > > 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 ----- ### "IDE for all your code editing" — 5.0/5 > **Issac** | *22 December 2024* | Automotive | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **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 > > 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 ----- ### "It is widely used AI tool" — 5.0/5 > **Mudit** | *27 November 2025* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **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 > > It has been great using VS code and Microsoft visual studio. Looking forward to future updates that should have more AI features ----- ### "VS code review" — 4.0/5 > **Suraj** | *12 September 2025* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: great UI user friendly git integration great features of expenteion help to code development help to build and development for software > > **Cons**: consumes more memory slow startup time with large project customization took longer long installation process ----- Page: 1 / 122\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.in/software/101288/microsoft-visual-studio?page=2) ## Links - [View on Capterra](https://www.capterra.in/software/101288/microsoft-visual-studio) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | de-AT | | | de-CH | | | en | | | en-AE | | | en-AU | | | en-CA | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-IL | | | en-IN | | | en-NZ | | | en-SG | | | en-ZA | | | es | | | es-AR | | | es-CL | | | es-CO | | | es-CR | | | es-DO | | | es-EC | | | es-MX | | | es-PA | | | es-PE | | | fr | | | fr-BE | | | fr-CA | | | fr-LU | | | it | | | ja | | | nl | | | nl-BE | | | pt | | | pt-PT | | ----- ## Structured Data