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I'm one "visual studio Dev"

I have also build in Go, nodejs, Php, RoR.

But VS is truelly the best IDE experience I have witnessed.

Database changes are automatically migrated and deployed using entity framework fyi.

The big deployment button changes the connection string per deployment, deploys with feature flags directly and automatically migrates the db to the latest version

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It's kind of funny to see the disdain for VS based deployment here, while all the current rage right now is declarative deployment systems.

Something VS based development, build and deployment based workflows have been doing for over a decade through the largely Web..config files and .csproj files.

Indeed, it's really powerfull.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/host-and-deploy...

Using it on a huge MFC application was the worst IDE experience I've ever had. So much time wasted on waiting for the thing doing it's job. That said, it's a lot better when used with a modern language like C#. But still dog slow. Nowadays even Java based IDEs feel snappier. And that says a lot.

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