Name: ASP.NET
Brand: Microsoft
Rating: 4.2 (35 reviews)

it_user3894

IT Administrator at a tech company with 51-200 employees

Jan 22, 2013

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Easy way to develop an interactive web application.

What is most valuable?

1. Easy to use and develop pages. 2. Its web applications are professional class. 3. With support from other .NET languages any knowledge of .NET can help one move around ASP.NET. Others: include VB.NET, C#

What needs improvement?

1. The pages are relatively large and hence may be slow. 2. It is not open source so i find it expensive to buy although as a company it is worth it purchasing but as an individual developer it is too expensive. 3. If you want to test your site unit wise with ASP.NET that is not an easy task.

What other advice do I have?

ASP.NET is very easy to use if one is familiar with .NET framework.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

it_user3870Senior Manager of Engineering with 1,001-5,000 employees

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May 17, 2013

Hi there,
I saw that you mentioned not easy to test? did you know that you can install IIS and .net on your local computer and test your application that way?

Also you can run .net websites on apache if you install the correct modules...

Wissam

it_user1029

Data Center Expert at a tech company with 51-200 employees

Jun 28, 2012

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This programming language is fast but in converting your MVC existing files is difficult.

Valuable Features:

1. No ViewState or "surprise crap". 2. Faster server-side. 3. Simplified model for multiple related views. 4. Unit testable.

Room for Improvement:

1. Difficult to convert an existing site. 2. Not best for SEO out of the box. 3. Challenges if you’re not running IIS7.

Other Advice:

If I needed to build a new site from scratch, and was able to use IIS7, it would be extremely likely that I would choose ASP.NET MVC. It’s a joy to work with (possibly because it’s "new"), and just makes sense. If I needed to work with an existing site, I would certainly have to consider the pro’s and con’s I mentioned above. ASP.NET MVC gives us an amazing new tool in our huge Microsoft toolbox.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

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it_user1005

Developer at a tech company with 51-200 employees

Jun 26, 2012

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Good Web App UI development

Valuable Features:

Rapid Development Easy to learn Wide range third party controls availability

Room for Improvement:

frequent version upgrade make you feel outdated unless you keep yourself updated

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

it_user3876Database Manager at a tech company with 51-200 employees

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Feb 20, 2013

There are some other cons that are needed to be discussed like ASP is a bit slower because it uses an overhead server and COM based architecture for execution of code. Also, ASP programs need to run on Windows with IIS installed.
Howerever, now ASP can run on linux platform with MONO. An Apache module(mod_mono) is provided by MONO
for running ASP.NET sites.