I have used it and I have to agree with the grandparent. It is probably one of the worst IDEs I have had to use. Bloated, slow, and in my way even on a modern multicore machine with 8+ gigs of memory.
Of the IDEs I have worked in (Turbo C++ v3.0, Borland C++ v3.1, NetBeans, Eclipse, Rubymine, DrScheme, Turbo Delphi Explorer, RAD Studio XE5, EiffelStudio, GNAT Pro, Visual Studio 6, 2010 and 2013, along with several embedded C environments), Visual Studio is my least favorite. For C++ development on Windows I prefer Eclipse or SublimeText for editing, build using the command line, and debug in WinDbg in order to avoid the awfulness that is the Visual Studio GUI.
Of the IDEs I have worked in (Turbo C++ v3.0, Borland C++ v3.1, NetBeans, Eclipse, Rubymine, DrScheme, Turbo Delphi Explorer, RAD Studio XE5, EiffelStudio, GNAT Pro, Visual Studio 6, 2010 and 2013, along with several embedded C environments), Visual Studio is my least favorite. For C++ development on Windows I prefer Eclipse or SublimeText for editing, build using the command line, and debug in WinDbg in order to avoid the awfulness that is the Visual Studio GUI.