# Which .NET IDE solutions do teams actually continue using long-term rather than switching away from after initial adoption?

<p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">Curious what the .NET community here has seen over the long haul. Adopting an IDE is easy. The real metric is which<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/categories/net-integrated-development-environments-ide"> </a><a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/categories/net-integrated-development-environments-ide">.NET IDE</a> solutions teams still use three years later, rather than quietly switching away from after the honeymoon.</p><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">What each is known for on that front, and what I would ask:</p><ul>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/visual-studio/reviews"><strong>Visual Studio</strong></a> is the one teams rarely leave. Decades of Microsoft backing, thousands of reviews, and a toolchain that reaches from debugging to Azure deployment make switching costly in both directions. Question: is that loyalty, or lock-in?</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/rider/reviews"><strong>Rider</strong></a> has a small market presence but the category's strongest feature scores, including the best rating for patching and updates among the true IDEs, which is what long-term care looks like. For teams that switched to it: did anyone switch back?</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/monodevelop/reviews"><strong>Monodevelop</strong></a> is the cautionary tale. The open source veteran still sits in the category, but its project has been archived and reviewers now rate it lowest among the real IDEs here. For former users: what finally made you move, and where did you land?</li>
</ul><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">Retention stories say more than star ratings. So tell me yours: which IDE did your team actually keep, which one did you drop, and what was the moment that decided it?</p><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true"></p><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true"></p>

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&lt;p&gt;The retention pattern I&#39;ve picked up from developers over the years: teams keep Visual Studio because leaving costs more than staying, and in the accounting, loyalty and lock-in are indistinguishable. The more telling signal is direction of travel. People who move to Rider rarely move back, which you can&#39;t say about most tool switches. And the MonoDevelop story answered itself: users didn&#39;t leave because something better appeared, they left when the project got archived, mostly landing on Rider or VS Code depending on how much IDE they actually needed.&lt;/p&gt;

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