What is the IDE for Native Windows Development?

An Integrated development environment (IDE) is an application that provides all the tools a developer needs while making a mobile app/ web or a windows application. These are designed in such a way that they carry all programming tasks in themselves. So, one can easily say it is a central interface featuring a code editor. Debugger, compiler and facilitates in building automation tools in a single window.

Why do developers use IDEs?

It makes the process of development smooth as the developers don’t have to manually configure and integrate multiple utilities in the setting up process. Developers don’t have to spend time on different tools as they are present in the IDE. Highly useful for teams with new developers who are not seasoned and can save time at the same time. Bugs caused while coding is identified in real-time as IDEs parse code while it is being written.

The other IDE feature helps in** the workflow and solves problems**. Also, the developer can customize their IDEs with help of Vim or Emacs.

Microsoft Visual Studio Express and Rad Studio are noteworthy IDEs that stand out among the teeming gamut that exists.

Microsoft Visual Studio
It is flexible enough to create dynamic apps as per your needs not only on Microsoft but also on other platforms as well. It has a rich toolbox that can help you significantly envisioning your creative thought processes. Along with that, it helps you-

1)Helps in making you write fast code.
2)Facilitate in developing specific goal-oriented apps.
3)Flexible enough to work from any virtual location.
4)Helps in testing and debugging a JS/ HTML app connected through the cloud.
Versatile enough to write code in F#, C#, C++, VB.NET among other languages.

**Version- **

There are versions of Visual Studio from 97 to 2013 that always offer something new, even providing IDEs in various languages. Some of the versions from 1995 to 2013 are-

Visual Studio 2012
Visual Studio 2013
Visual Studio 20015
Visual Studio 2017
Visual Studio 2019

Visual Studio 2019

It has amazing improvements and new features that ensure effective delivery of developer’s skills and team collaboration. It does not matter whether you are a first-time user or a seasoned user, you are bound to benefit from the features that encompass all the development activities. It will help you in the maintenance of the creation of a well-meaning focused project to check the quality of your code.

The APIs in Visual Studio 2019 are unchanged. It is a plus point as any extension that you would be using in Visual Studio 2017 could get updated without any extra effort to support the later version. Updated extensions include Web Essentials, Productivity Power, VsVim, and other common extensions.

It has a simplified UI so that you can focus on your code. There is this modernization of the interface to the 2012 version with the updated blue version.
There is even more room for your coding space as the top-level menu has been moved to the title bar. Similar changes like these have been done to improve space and not change your navigating experience in the IDE.

Also, The search feature that was initially known as Quick Learn provides faster and more accurate results. It is completely rewritten and accommodates results with spelling mistakes as well!

You can easily look into 1)Settings 2)Installable components 3)commands. The Team still promises to update the Visual Studio to expand its search accuracy and implement other search providers to give a friendly search experience.

Along with this,** IntelliCode- Visual Studio stands out**. It is a set of AI-assisted capabilities to help improve developer efficiency. It has features like code formatting, style rule inference, and contextual IntelliSense. Though it is optional to both the latest versions, however- its updates have improved it.

RAD Studio-

It is a prominent IDE for providing a complete set of tools that help the development life cycle quite easily. It is also considered one of the most powerful IDEs for building Native Apps on Windows, iOS,macOS, Linus, Android.
The RAD Studio version supports the tools in this ID. One of the easiest IDEs that pace in helping you compile, package, and deploy cross-platform native applications in both Delphi and C++ programming languages. It has a single code base- that runs on the formulae- Write Once, Compile Everywhere. It runs on all the major platforms with less coding effort.

However, one of the major setbacks is the time it takes to load and the components often end up taking time to load, creating inefficiency.
It helps in customizing platform-and-device-specific views without plagiarizing design. It also helps you in designing your master responsive UI layout and uses a visual design menu to easily drag and drop components. It also builds designs with resolution-aware components that stand exceptionally well on various gadgets like desktops, tablets, and smartphones.