Developing various .NET solutions, making sure code is well tested and debugging issues with it, then publishing the code from the application.
Director Research Development with 1,001-5,000 employees
Most valuable features include code navigation by symbols and document auto formatting
Pros and Cons
- "It is definitely sophisticated and provides many out-of-the-box features. Going community has boosted all that."
- "Most valuable features include code navigation by symbols and document auto formatting."
- "Since it is a heavy product, it is somewhat slow in building and executing the code in a localhost environment and it consumes a lot of resources."
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
No one can say that VS IDE is bad. It is definitely sophisticated and provides many out-of-the-box features. Going community has boosted all that.
What is most valuable?
- Code navigation by symbols
- Document auto formatting
- Testing tools
- Publishing tools
- Performance testing
- Reference usage
What needs improvement?
Since it is a heavy product, it is somewhat slow in building and executing the code in a localhost environment and it consumes a lot of resources.
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Three to five years.
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Great article by author Engineer359, certainly the Visual Studio.NET is a state of the art, Integrated Development Environment available in the market. Even there are some advantages and disadvantages of the framework which i would like to add:
Advantages:
1) Easy to learn
2) Can be used for creating Desktop, Web and Mobile Applications
Disadvantages:
1) As said by the author .NET Framework bundles more and more components, utilities, and API's so the learning curve is big.
2) Desktop Applications cab be created for windows platform only.