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Pro Official IDE developed by Microsoft
If a project type or a platform is available for C#, it's available in Visual Studio. Some IDEs and code editors may cover some project types, but Microsoft always starts with VS. If you work with a cross-platform technology like ASP.NET MVC, it matters less. If you work with Windows-only technologies like UWP or WPF, you have no choice really.
Pro Partial cross-platform support
Visual Studio runs on Windows and macOS, so even if you develop on a Mac you can still develop with Visual Studio.
Pro Same excellent Roslyn compiler/editor as VS for Code + powerful debugging tools
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Visual Studio
Recommended 6 years ago
It's Visual Studio, what else do I have to say about it? It's the best IDE for any .NET language. With a variety of extensions, it can easily be adapted to do any task that your developer life desires.
Pro
Official IDE developed by MicrosoftPro
Supported by ReSharper and other pluginsPro
Free Community editionPro
Excellent and broad range of pluginsPro
Amazing coverage over languagesCon
Slow & Buggy (on Mac)Pro
Partial cross-platform supportCon
Professional pricing is a bit steepVisual Studio
Recommended 6 years ago
I don't understand how anyone could possibly not rate VS #1 for C#. It supports every possible kind of C# development, every project type and target. It's Windows only. of course, but on the platform for which it's built, it's clearly the winner.
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Supported by ReSharper and other pluginsPro
Free Community editionPro
Excellent and broad range of pluginsPro
Amazing coverage over languagesVisual Studio
Recommended 3 years ago
Working with VS since version 2012. VS2019 is super fast, and is excellent for complex solutions (100+ projects, 100+ unit tests), and supports many different payloads (python, react, react-redux, asp.net, j#, c++, c, unit tests boost/google/MStest etc), including cross platform (linux in particular). Suppo...
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Product backlogPro
Supported by ReSharper and other pluginsPro
Free Community editionPro
Excellent and broad range of pluginsPro
Amazing coverage over languagesPro
FastVisual Studio
Recommended 2 years ago
good, btw takes up a lot of memory
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Official IDE developed by MicrosoftPro
Free Community editionPro
Excellent and broad range of pluginsPro
Amazing coverage over languagesPro
It can run c#, c++, etc.Pro
Comes With the .NET FrameworkPro
FastCon
Too much storage eater for low-end PCsVisual Studio
Recommended 2 years ago
Nice itellisense (VS 2022) fast and snart
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Cloud storagePro
Official IDE developed by MicrosoftPro
Free Community editionPro
Amazing coverage over languagesPro
Partial cross-platform supportPro
Fast-paced development iterationPro
It can run c#, c++, etc.Pro
Comes With the .NET FrameworkPro
FastPro
Time travel in debuggingPro
Great UI for nugget packagesPro
Same excellent Roslyn compiler/editor as VS for Code + powerful debugging toolsComments
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Con Not free!
VS 2019 community edition may be advertised as free, but it is in fact a 30 day trial.
You have to sell your data if you want it prolonged.
Con Visual Studio 2017 CE account sign in fails behind a corporate proxy
After the trial period it expires.
Out of Date Pros + Cons
Con Windows & Mac only
Visual Studio is only available on Windows and Macintosh.