# Which .NET IDE tools have the strongest user adoption rates with minimal team training requirements?

<p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">A .NET IDE only pays off if the whole team actually adopts it and can pick it up without heavy training. So, for the .NET developers and reviewers here: which <a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/categories/net-integrated-development-environments-ide">.NET IDE tools</a> have the strongest user adoption rates with minimal team training requirements? By adoption and low training, three stand out (G2 ratings in parenthesis):</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> (4.5, 3,990+ reviews): the most widely adopted .NET IDE by a wide margin, and since most .NET developers learned on it, an existing team needs close to zero training. But it’s Windows-only now, so a cross-platform team cannot standardize on it.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/visual-studio-code/reviews"><strong>Visual Studio Code</strong></a> (4.7, 2,710+ reviews) with the C# Dev Kit: hugely adopted across all developers and simple enough that new hires get productive quickly, with the same tool on any operating system. But it’s an editor plus extensions, so for deep .NET work some teams still reach for a full IDE, and on G2 it lives in the code editor category, not this one.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/rider/reviews"><strong>JetBrains Rider</strong></a> (4.4, 75+ reviews): smaller adoption here but rated highly, and its smart hints and refactorings flatten the learning curve, especially for anyone already using JetBrains tools. But the layout differs from Visual Studio, so a switching team needs a short adjustment.</li>
</ul><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">For those who reviewed or rolled one of these out, which one usually needs the least training to get everyone productive, and which one do people quietly stop using?</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;Least training is Visual Studio for the simple reason you named: most .NET developers learned on it, so there&#39;s nothing to teach. The one people quietly stop using is almost always the second tool in a dual setup. Teams adopt Rider or VS Code alongside Visual Studio, and whichever one isn&#39;t wired into the debug workflow they actually rely on just fades out of the dock within a quarter.&lt;/p&gt;

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