# Survey: Which Development Environment Do You Use?

> Text Control conducted a developer survey to identify which IDEs its users preferred, with the results directly informing improvements to Visual Studio-specific features such as IntelliSense and Smart Tags support in TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms development tooling.

- **Author:** Bjoern Meyer
- **Published:** 2009-01-16
- **Modified:** 2026-03-05
- **Description:** Text Control conducted a developer survey to identify which IDEs its users preferred, with the results directly informing improvements to Visual Studio-specific features such as IntelliSense and Smart Tags support in TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms development tooling.
- **1 min read** (110 words)
- **Tags:**
  - Survey
  - VB6
  - Visual Studio
- **Web URL:** https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2009/01/16/survey-which-development-environment-do-you-use/
- **LLMs URL:** https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2009/01/16/survey-which-development-environment-do-you-use/llms.txt
- **LLMs-Full URL:** https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2009/01/16/survey-which-development-environment-do-you-use/llms-full.txt

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To help our engineers and product planning, we would like to ask you about your thoughts and your experiences. With your help, we can provide you the best available products and support.

Today, I would like to ask you about your preferred development environments. We would like to improve development environment specific features like *IntelliSense* or *Smart Tags* of Microsoft Visual Studio.

[![Text Control](https://s1-www.textcontrol.com/assets/dist/blog/2009/01/16/a/assets/survey_ide.webp "Text Control") ](https://www.textcontrol.com/)

We would greatly appreciate it if you could help us by completing the following survey. It takes you less than 1 minute.

**[Start Survey](https://www.textcontrol.com/).**

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## About Bjoern Meyer

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