Ironically, most devs at Microsoft don't use Visual Studio at all to build software. For them, it's all command line all the time, plus whatever editor you feel like using. All the compilation scripts are built by hand, and access to source is highly compartmentalized. You only get access to what you need to know to build your product.
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Ironically, most devs at Microsoft don't use Visual Studio at all to build software. For them, it's all command line all the time, plus whatever editor you feel like using. All the compilation scripts are built by hand, and access to source is highly compartmentalized. You only get access to what you need to know to build your product.