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For C++/.NET Developers: What's your preference Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code?

Survey period: 29 Jul 2019 to 5 Aug 2019

With one you get a full IDE, with the other you get cross platform support and a world of extensions and no price tag. Which do you prefer?

OptionVotes% 
Visual Studio71368.23
Visual Studio Code524.98
I like both equally595.65
Depends on the project I'm working on15614.93
I don't use either656.22



 
GeneralI'm using.... Pin
Chris Losinger4-Aug-19 9:24
professionalChris Losinger4-Aug-19 9:24 
GeneralI asnwered VisualStudio Pin
den2k881-Aug-19 21:15
professionalden2k881-Aug-19 21:15 
GeneralVisual Studio for C++ and C#, VS Code for Python Pin
Rick Shaub30-Jul-19 8:34
Rick Shaub30-Jul-19 8:34 
GeneralI've tried both ... Pin
MSBassSinger30-Jul-19 3:49
professionalMSBassSinger30-Jul-19 3:49 
GeneralVSCode for me... Pin
Stuart Dootson29-Jul-19 22:10
professionalStuart Dootson29-Jul-19 22:10 
GeneralRe: VSCode for me... Pin
Matt McGuire30-Jul-19 4:39
professionalMatt McGuire30-Jul-19 4:39 
GeneralTo be honest... Pin
M.Vo.29-Jul-19 20:57
M.Vo.29-Jul-19 20:57 
GeneralVSCode? Pin
#realJSOP29-Jul-19 3:47
professional#realJSOP29-Jul-19 3:47 
GeneralRe: VSCode? Pin
Dean Roddey29-Jul-19 10:59
Dean Roddey29-Jul-19 10:59 
GeneralRe: VSCode? Pin
Mike Diack30-Jul-19 0:10
Mike Diack30-Jul-19 0:10 
GeneralRe: VSCode? Pin
Nemanja Trifunovic30-Jul-19 3:15
Nemanja Trifunovic30-Jul-19 3:15 
GeneralRe: VSCode? Pin
Dean Roddey31-Jul-19 12:47
Dean Roddey31-Jul-19 12:47 
GeneralRe: VSCode? Pin
Fabio Franco30-Jul-19 2:52
professionalFabio Franco30-Jul-19 2:52 
GeneralRe: VSCode? Pin
#realJSOP30-Jul-19 6:17
professional#realJSOP30-Jul-19 6:17 
Fabio Franco wrote:
All you need for that is keep an open mind.

I'm too old to have an open mind.

Fabio Franco wrote:
To me this is actually a benifit rather than a drawback. Solutions, projects are so annoying, specially for source control. conflicts, it's just a legacy ineffective way to organize a project. If you go .Net Core they become completely obsolete. As they should be.

That's like saying, "The rule of law is so annoying." It doesn't matter if you "go .Net core", you're still tied to compiling your own code.


Fabio Franco wrote:
That's a very incorrect assumption you're making, VSCode has a very rich set of extensions

And tell me how that's any different from what Visual Studio is, other than the fact that you have to download tons of crap yourself instead of just installing a tool that already has all that crap in it.

Fabio Franco wrote:
Having said that. If I actually prefer Visual Studio for many .net project types, because it's simply useful and has a very rich toolset.

That's PRECISELY why it's a better choice for MS stack *projects*.


Fabio Franco wrote:
It's heavy, it's slow it crashes a lot.


It's only as "heavy" as you make it. In actuality, it looks like VSCode but with all the crap you need to develop, debug and deploy your (Windows stack) apps. VSCode came along so you could install a MS product on your Linux distro and write Python, etc.

I stand by my claim that VSCode does NOT benefit the MS stack developer in the slightest. Before you provide anything resembling a rebuttal, remember - I do NOT have an open mind in this regard.
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Fabio Franco30-Jul-19 21:23
professionalFabio Franco30-Jul-19 21:23 
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#realJSOP31-Jul-19 4:45
professional#realJSOP31-Jul-19 4:45 
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Fabio Franco31-Jul-19 5:35
professionalFabio Franco31-Jul-19 5:35 
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#realJSOP31-Jul-19 6:03
professional#realJSOP31-Jul-19 6:03 
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Fabio Franco31-Jul-19 22:45
professionalFabio Franco31-Jul-19 22:45 
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Mladen Janković2-Aug-19 10:55
Mladen Janković2-Aug-19 10:55 
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GuyThiebaut3-Aug-19 7:43
professionalGuyThiebaut3-Aug-19 7:43 
Generalwow Pin
honey the codewitch29-Jul-19 2:40
mvahoney the codewitch29-Jul-19 2:40 
GeneralVS for debugging, VS Code for coding Pin
Nemanja Trifunovic29-Jul-19 1:56
Nemanja Trifunovic29-Jul-19 1:56 
GeneralExpressions 4 Pin
W Balboos, GHB29-Jul-19 1:09
W Balboos, GHB29-Jul-19 1:09 
GeneralTo paraphrase Steve Balmer... Pin
OriginalGriff28-Jul-19 22:37
mveOriginalGriff28-Jul-19 22:37 

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