We performed a comparison between Microsoft Visual Studio and Zend Studio based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Adobe, FourJs and others in .NET Development Services."The most valuable feature is that it is a complete package, with an IDE and everything that you need for software development."
"I like that it works fine and that it performs better than competing products. I'm very happy with Microsoft Visual Studio."
"We can write programming code, write our test cases and automate tests in Visual Studio.NET."
"We can use different .NET features."
"What we like about Microsoft Visual Studio is that it's a comprehensive tool. It has features that work for different plans and it has a wide variety of use cases. It's also a powerful tool and it's quite efficient."
"My company works with outsourced programmers. The solution helps us to test, integrate and foresee the code quality. We can trace the development stages."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Visual Studio is how easy it is to access all the basic templates for development. There are so many features you get with Visual Studio that it's really helpful for the deployment, the development, and the intelligence behind it."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"It has higher quality code, faster debugging, and higher quality projects."
"It has the ability to jump to any file in your project with a few keystrokes, as well as the ability to command-click on any token in your code and have it jump to the token's definition."
"Microsoft Visual Studio can improve integration with the Microsoft Office suite; this was only implemented in 2022."
"I would like the solution to have a designing default in addition to the current coding default."
"Microsoft Visual Studio can improve by adding more features to the Mac version. There are a lot of features lacking in the Mac version, there are limitations. I can install Microsoft Visual Studio on the Mac operating system, but it is not the same as if I installed it on a Microsoft Windows system. The Microsoft Windows version has a lot of features available in Microsoft Visual Studio."
"The solution is not really good at debugging JavaScript, jQuery, or SQL"
"The UI could be better, and development could be easier on Microsoft Visual Studio if there were more features like drag and drop and more frameworks, etc."
"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."
"The solution’s technical support could be improved."
"I would like to see support for rapid application development. For example, if I am developing a new project, I am repeating many similar steps again and again and again. But the platform could do this easily, instead of me. It would save me time. This is something I would like to have in Microsoft Visual Studio, to have it take over repetitive tasks from me."
"Most recent set of patches (2018) on Mac OS X caused the app to crash when you would cut more than 10 lines of code. Apparently, this was due to a bug in Eclipse, but regardless, it took several months for Zend to post a patch."
"The debugger often has problems determining where to map files to local projects."
"Stability is sometimes lacking in updates."
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Microsoft Visual Studio is ranked 1st in .NET Development Services with 79 reviews while Zend Studio is ranked 8th in .NET Development Services. Microsoft Visual Studio is rated 8.4, while Zend Studio is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Visual Studio writes "Easy to use, works well in the Microsoft Windows ecosystem, and integrates well with Git". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zend Studio writes "It has higher quality code, faster debugging, and higher quality projects". Microsoft Visual Studio is most compared with SharePoint Designer, Genero and Microsoft Silverlight, whereas Zend Studio is most compared with .
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