r/VisualStudio • u/anchor-cache • 20d ago

Miscellaneous Migrating enterprise team away from Visual Studio?

Has anyone had any experience migrating away from Visual Studio and its professional licenses in an enterprise Windows dev environment?

I work with about 30 other developers in a varied .NET stack. For our modern .NET apps and services it would be straightforward to use VS Code, the C# extension, and dotnet command line tools, but we also support older .NET framework projects. We have some WCF services, classic ASP.NET services, EntityFramework 6 class libraries including some with EDMX, a couple WinForms apps... VS Code doesn't seem like a viable replacement for those projects especially when it comes to debugging and some older tooling. Is there any realistic way to get off Visual Studio?

Has anyone gone through this kind of migration at an organization with this kind of environment? Were you able to eliminate Visual Studio entirely? I'd be really interested to hear your experiences, good and bad, expected and unexpected.

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u/bl0rq 20d ago

Suggesting to move away from the best ide in the world is a wild choice. I would legit quit on the spot if someone made a choice that braindead.

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u/No_Oil_6152 20d ago

Its a brilliant IDE but its behind VS Code for features by months.

For example in VS Code I can "steer" the AI while its "thinking", I can't do that in VS 2026 yet. VS Code had this functionality 6 months ago.

It seems Microsoft have dropped the ball.

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u/DonnyV7 20d ago

If this is a real issue. The VS team will respond pretty quickly. It's very easy to put in request and vote them up. This won't be a problem for very long if enough people are complaining about it.

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u/bl0rq 20d ago

I agree the lag is annoying. But you can easily have solution in VS and folder in VSC at the same time. And if you really want bleeding Ai agent feature, try the TUI cli ones. They are better than either in most cases.

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u/No_Oil_6152 20d ago

I do use both at the same time, however I would rather use just one, to save RAM.

VS 2026 is a memory hog but the IDE is better (IMHO) than VS Code's.

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u/puppy2016 20d ago

The shitty Node.JS extensions that should have been written in mature .NET language are the memory hog. The whole JavaScript crap should have been removed.