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ASP.NET vs Microsoft Visual Studio comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

ASP.NET
Ranking in .NET Development Services
2nd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
35
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Microsoft Visual Studio
Ranking in .NET Development Services
1st
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
102
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the .NET Development Services category, the mindshare of ASP.NET is 11.9%, down from 13.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Visual Studio is 16.5%, up from 14.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
.NET Development Services Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Microsoft Visual Studio16.5%
ASP.NET11.9%
Other71.6%
.NET Development Services
 

Featured Reviews

SasidharParupudi - PeerSpot reviewer
Principle Consultant at a outsourcing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Building reliable web APIs and sites has become faster and development stays well supported
I think Microsoft can make ASP.NET better by catching up with other frameworks by adopting features that are very popular in those frameworks, such as minimal APIs and other innovations. They have introduced Blazor, which is their newer front-end development software framework, but unfortunately, Blazor is not well adopted in the market. However, I feel that they will catch up in the future as Blazor has a lot of potential. In my opinion, there is not anything extra needed immediately for ASP.NET; the framework is self-sufficient and very mature at this stage. The problem lies with wider adoption, as some people are anti-Microsoft and prefer open-source alternatives such as React. Microsoft could potentially do a better job at marketing these solutions, but other than that, the tool has the potential to be used in any enterprise-level applications. I would say the setup process for ASP.NET is relatively simple, but with the latest generation of user management or integration with OpenID, the documentation is not comprehensive in terms of what you can do with the latest libraries. They support many things and have decoupled themselves from their own identity servers, but still need to improve documentation considerably.
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Senior Manager, Application Development at PSKW, LLC
Code reviews have become clearer and debugging now improves multi-language API development
I appreciate the debugging capability of Microsoft Visual Studio the most. The tracing of the debugging is what I value. I can use any editor to write the code, but Microsoft Visual Studio has strong capability. Microsoft Visual Studio has good integration with the plugins I want to use, the different types of plugins available for different languages and even JSON. Microsoft Visual Studio has improved significantly. Before, people used to use Notepad and other basic editors. Using the studio gave them the capability to properly debug and find issues. Additionally, it provides good code organization and indentation, as well as color coding for comments. It is very useful, as it gives function descriptions and class descriptions. It is very easy for someone who is not writing the code to understand it when they look at it, as it is very descriptive with proper commenting. I cannot give exact statistics on time saved, but I can provide statistics on quality improvement. The coding standard has been enforced. It has tremendously improved with Microsoft Visual Studio. I would say anywhere between 20 to 50% improvement, depending on which team we are discussing.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Easy to use and develop pages."
"The most valuable feature of ASP.NET is its visual side, which makes building Windows forms applications visually efficient."
"ASP.Net and Microsoft technologies platform has helped in improving our services to our clients."
"The most valuable feature is that it's easy to use."
"We have been using ASP.NET framework from mobile development to web development, and it just works like a perfect solution to each possible project I've come across in life up till now."
"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."
"The solution is very easy to maintain because UI management is simple and many libraries are available."
"ASP.NET does have good support for Web APIs for creating RESTful services."
"The solution is a very good tool, and I like the performance, stability and ease of use."
"Microsoft Visual Studio is an excellent product."
"It supports different types of software development for websites, web apps, mobile apps, computer programs, or any other web services."
"I like the IDE or the integrated development environment. It's the best IDE."
"It's got a lot of tools integrated into it."
"It is pretty simple to set up."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Visual Studio is the user interface."
"I find Microsoft Visual Studio to be a good development environment; its integration with SQL and features like check-in, check-out, and integration with Visual SourceSafe and now the Azure counterpart are very effective for debugging applications."
 

Cons

"They have introduced Blazor, which is their newer front-end development software framework, but unfortunately, Blazor is not well adopted in the market."
"There are often stability issues when new updates are first released."
"There used to be IAF, which you could spin on a Windows machine. However, that sort of setup does not exist for Linux machines. Because customers still prefer a Windows underlying infrastructure, it can get expensive."
"I'd like to be able to run any application from a specific point instead of compiling all the code. For example, if I want to test function A, I should be able to test it even if my other functions aren't working. Like in SQL, you provide parameters to the function, and it executes. I'd like to see something similar in ASP.NET."
"One last thing that needs to be improved is the Azure developer experience, the AZD commands, and how to deploy Aspire applications using different methods, especially on Kubernetes."
"There should be consistent customization related to security, features, and developers, making the solution more understandable and adaptable."
"The pages are relatively large and hence may be slow."
"There are frameworks such as Blazor that have been injected into it, or there are lots of new things such as cloud-enabled services or mobile app functionality which do not yet have enough documentation on how to implement them, though Microsoft provides good online documentation."
"A room for improvement in Microsoft Visual Studio is its performance. Currently, some of our devices are not that capable, so performance still needs to be improved."
"The reporting services are quite limited in terms of features and need to be improved."
"Sometimes, the deprecation of packages can be a challenge."
"You need a lot of RAM to run the applications with Visual Studio and Unity."
"Despite its advantages, challenges in diverse cloud environments may prompt the uninstallation of the application or entire development environment for resolution."
"Microsoft Visual Studio can be improved by integrating an agent that can support developers in the development process."
"They could add new modules to the platform for enhanced functioning."
"Additional components such as add-ons could be included in the installation packages because it saves time for the user during installation."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is a bit high and I believe that it can be brought down."
"This is a free solution. However, we have some server licensing costs which are not directly a cost of using the solution."
"ASP.NET is an open-source solution."
"ASP.NET is not an expensive solution."
"The solution is comparatively cheaper, and you don't have to pay anything for a developer license."
"The solution is free to use."
"The solution requires a licensing fee but is worth the investment."
"The pricing is somewhere in the middle. Not too expensive, but not the cheapest either."
"The price of Microsoft Visual Studio is reasonable but could be better."
"We purchased an expensive enterprise version of Microsoft Visual Studio."
"The price is good."
"We use the free version, and you don't need a license."
"Visual Studio Team System is expensive, but it is worth the money."
"We are using the solution's free version."
"Microsoft Visual Studio is free. It's freeware, so you don't have to pay for its license."
"Licensing costs are reasonable."
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business16
Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise13
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business36
Midsize Enterprise20
Large Enterprise52
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ASP.NET?
Our solution is deployed in a hybrid setup; we have some on-site on a private cloud and some on Azure. Most of our costing comes from database licensing, as we use SQL Server, which has very costly...
What needs improvement with ASP.NET?
With the Aspire project, the community is working well on third-party tools for integration, but as a framework, it is solid for almost all normal use cases. For some advanced use cases, I do not s...
What is your primary use case for ASP.NET?
I am mainly developing backend solutions, microservices, and monolithic web backends with ASP.NET.I tried Angular and Blazor; I worked with Angular a long time ago, but I worked with a small projec...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Visual Studio?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that since we install it directly from downloads, the cost is minimal. If we have a Microsoft Visual Studio enterprise license, I'm not sure...
What needs improvement with Microsoft Visual Studio?
I think Microsoft Visual Studio is good at the moment. When I think of additional improvements, I would like to have the ability to use Claude in my Microsoft Visual Studio account since I believe ...
What is your primary use case for Microsoft Visual Studio?
My main use case for Microsoft Visual Studio is for writing code. Since I'm a data engineer, projects I work on using Microsoft Visual Studio are related to data engineering. We have GitHub or Bitb...
 

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Sample Customers

Kienzle Automotive GmbH, Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Vengo Labs, Oneview Healthcare, BookedOut, Ministry of Rural Development, Grupo WRR
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