G2 Vendor Directory

.NET Integrated Development Environments (IDE)

10

Products

5,345

Total reviews

4.4

Avg. rating

Visual Studio by Microsoft leads the .NET Integrated Development Environments (IDE) category with a 4.5 rating from 4,010 reviews. Essential Studio has the strongest momentum in the category, up +70.7% quarter-over-quarter.

LLM citations

Monthly citations by AI answer engines for the top products in .NET Integrated Development Environments (IDE).

LLM citations · .NET Integrated Development Environments (IDE)

Source: G2 review data

Key stats

Visual Studio

Essential Studio

Small Business

Category trends

How the .NET Integrated Development Environments (IDE) market is moving, from G2 review and Grid data.

Which products are most adopted?
1
Visual Studio3,143 2
Essential Studio464 3
DevExpress76 4
Rider75 5
.NET 4.567
Which products are reviewers switching to?
1
Essential Studio24 2
Rider11 3
Visual Studio2 4
Monodevelop1 5
.NET 4.51
Which products do enterprises choose?
1
Visual Studio1,015 2
Essential Studio26 3
.NET 4.517 4
Rider15 5
DevExpress6
Which products do mid-market buyers choose?
1
Visual Studio1,015 2
Essential Studio53 3
.NET 4.528 4
Rider18 5
DevExpress12
Which products do small businesses choose?
1
Visual Studio1,080 2
Essential Studio380 3
DevExpress53 4
Monodevelop45 5
Rider39

Fastest growing

Ranked by G2 Momentum score.

1

Essential Studio

by Syncfusion · 852 reviews

4.5
2

Visual Studio

by Microsoft · 4,010 reviews

4.5
3

Rider

by JetBrains · 75 reviews

4.4

All products

Ranked by G2 Grid position.

1

Visual Studio

by Microsoft · 4,010 reviews

4.5
2

Essential Studio

by Syncfusion · 852 reviews

4.5
3

.NET 4.5

by Microsoft · 82 reviews

4.1
4

Rider

by JetBrains · 75 reviews

4.4
5

DevExpress

by DevExpress · 116 reviews

4.8

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