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Amazon EC2 running Microsoft Visual Studio on Microsoft Windows Server is a fast and dependable environment that provides the latest platform capabilities with enhanced development tools and quality enablement. Amazon EC2 enables you to run compatible Windows-based solutions on AWS' high-performance, reliable, cost-effective, cloud computing platform.
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
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This Amazon Machine Image (AMI) includes the Microsoft Visual Studio installed on a license-included Windows Server base AMI for Amazon EC2. To launch an instance, refer to the “User based subscriptions” feature of AWS License Manager.
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To use this offering, onboard to AWS License Manager and navigate to "User-based Subscriptions" https://docs.aws.amazon.com/license-manager/latest/userguide/user-based-subscriptions.htmlÂ
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Supports multi-language development and improves workflow tracking through version control
What is our primary use case?
Microsoft Visual Studio is used for development, including recent work with AI applications across many different areas of the organization.
What is most valuable?
The language is easy to use for linking with other databases and software. As a Microsoft product, it provides native integration, making it straightforward to communicate with Azure or any database within Azure through built-in integration capabilities.
The version control feature helped us easily retrieve previous versions and track logs to see where changes occurred and when they happened.
The ability to use multiple coding languages in one place is valuable, providing a comprehensive environment for everything.
What needs improvement?
AI integration is something that every company is trying to incorporate. While Microsoft Visual Studio is working very well currently, there is still room to improve the AI functionality.
For how long have I used the solution?
More than 10 years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Microsoft Visual Studio is very stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Scalability rates about seven out of ten.
How are customer service and support?
Microsoft sometimes has outsourced people with less knowledge on their support team. When we open a ticket, it often needs to be escalated to the next level to reach an expert, rather than being resolved at the first level. This sometimes wastes our time, but eventually they fix the issue for us.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Neutral
How was the initial setup?
The installation process is very easy and straightforward.
What was our ROI?
Microsoft Visual Studio provides a positive return on investment.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The setup cost rates about eight out of ten.
What other advice do I have?
Different divisions in the organization may use AWSÂ , though this is not something I am aware of directly. The organization primarily bases its operations on Azure. My overall rating for Microsoft Visual Studio is ten out of ten.
Streamlined development enhances productivity with valuable integration and intuitive features
What is our primary use case?
The main use case for Microsoft Visual Studio is module development and software development, and I do some unit test work as well.
What is most valuable?
Microsoft Visual Studio's integration with Git and Team Foundation Server is the most valuable. We can work on branches, check work out, merge work in, and resolve conflicts with it, so those are all good features in Microsoft Visual Studio.
I have used IntelliSense in Microsoft Visual Studio, and when you hover over a data type, you can see that you can get more information about it and its interface, which is a good feature.
The debugging tools in Microsoft Visual Studio are very good at helping me pinpoint issues with precision.
The Git integration in Microsoft Visual Studio is brilliant.
The main benefits Microsoft Visual Studio provides include streamlining processes, and it's fairly intuitive, where most of what I need to do can be accessed from the dropdown menus. It takes a lot of the tricky part out because you've got it all there in an integrated development environment (IDE).
What needs improvement?
Based on my experience and my colleagues' feedback, I believe a potential area of improvement for Microsoft Visual Studio could be incorporating more AI, as it makes things easier for us, and having more intelligence in the tool would be beneficial.
In terms of functionality, I am mostly satisfied with Microsoft Visual Studio, but I would suggest that it provides more help with being able to use design patterns.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with Microsoft Visual Studio for approximately 12 years.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
In terms of scalability, I would rate Microsoft Visual Studio an eight.
How are customer service and support?
I have had some experience with tech support from Microsoft, and I would rate them a seven, although I haven't had to really use any desk support from them.
I would rate tech support from Microsoft an eight, as I'm sure they're good, but we just haven't had to deal with them that much.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup for Microsoft Visual Studio isn't too difficult.
What other advice do I have?
The stability of Microsoft Visual Studio is excellent, deserving a rating of 10.
Microsoft Visual Studio is the best tool that we've got currently, and I don't have any complaints about it. I give it a final rating of 10 out of 10.
Robust debugging and plugin support improve coding productivity
What is most valuable?
Microsoft Visual Studio is an IDE , or integrated development environment, which enables users to set up their own dev environment to code and build websites and then host them. Through Microsoft Visual Studio , users can host to cloud services with one button or one fly server. It's essentially an environment for coding; it's an IDE .
Microsoft Visual Studio is a robust Microsoft product. It is a very secure device and tool. It has numerous extensions and plugins available, and it's a cross-platform development tool, meaning development is possible for any other devices. It supports everything, provided you have the specific graphics for processing and a CPU with an intensive workload, a clock speed-based device.
IntelliSense in Microsoft Visual Studio can sense automatically. It can identify syntax errors and declarations if there are mistakes. It's extremely helpful during coding. With IntelliSense, issues can be rectified on the fly, either before or after compiling.
Microsoft Visual Studio's debugging tools are excellent and straightforward. Users can utilize a line-by-line debugging feature.
The built-in Git integration for source control in Microsoft Visual Studio has a simple setup process. Users just need to provide the repo link and grant access. The integration is seamless and helpful, allowing for easy code pushing and pulling.
Some of the most impactful plugins include static code analysis tools and GitHub Copilot. There are also JSON viewers, JSON parsers, and numerous third-party plugins available.
The performance profiling tools in Microsoft Visual Studio are effective. Once an application is ready, it can be tested with performance profiling. Users can perform performance upgrades, check function calling processes, identify redundant elements, and determine if code-level changes are needed for better processing.
What needs improvement?
Microsoft Visual Studio is performing well currently. One potential improvement would be integration with solutions such as Codespaces , where users can have their own virtual dev environment setup. A hybrid setup would be beneficial, particularly for users with low-performance PCs. A hybrid collaboration with Microsoft Visual Studio system where some processing occurs in the cloud would be more effective.
How are customer service and support?
The support and community forums for Microsoft Visual Studio are strong, deserving a solid eight out of ten rating.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
What other advice do I have?
I have leveraged the plugin ecosystem to tailor my IDE experience. The overall rating for Microsoft Visual Studio is 8 out of 10.
Application development becomes streamlined with intuitive features and comprehensive debugging tools while integration needs refinement
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Enables seamless cloud-native migration and robust debugging features
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What was my experience with deployment of the solution?
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How would you rate customer service and support?
Neutral