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ASP.NET vs Microsoft Visual Studio comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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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
101
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the .NET Development Services category, the mindshare of ASP.NET is 13.0%, up from 11.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Visual Studio is 13.0%, down from 18.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
.NET Development Services Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Microsoft Visual Studio13.0%
ASP.NET13.0%
Other74.0%
.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.
Eitan Gold - PeerSpot reviewer
SQA Manager at Elmo Motion Control Ltd.
Test code efficiency improves with integrated debugger and automation
The test explorer is really important for us as it aids in testing, along with the regular debugger. Even though I forgot the term for it at the moment, there is an overall debugger tool within the IDE that is very effective. This comprehensive debugger tool does the job efficiently, making our work easier.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"This framework is very easy to use and tweak for our business needs."
"We use ASP.NET to develop web applications and web API. I'm working at a government financial institution in Mexico that helps citizens buy a house"
"It is easy to install ASP.NET on your laptop."
"The solution's framework supports storing all client-side and server-side code in one place."
"The solution is easy to integrate and understand. It has a very good user interface and a lot of prebuilt tools, which require a lot less coding if we compare it to other solutions."
"The solution is very easy to maintain because UI management is simple and many libraries are available."
"ASP.NET works well with Windows applications and more generally, the Windows platform."
"The most valuable features are ease of use, scalability, and flexibility."
"It's a useful integrated development environment."
"It is also flexible enough to let me use Git as well as its own version control mechanism."
"Notably, the Enterprise version facilitates seamless integration with Microsoft products, leveraging the ease of connectivity within the Microsoft ecosystem."
"Using Microsoft Visual Studio has saved me considerable time and effort during development, with savings between twenty and fifty percent in terms of both time and money."
"Microsoft Visual Studio is integrated with all tools and offers all necessary extensions, making it very convenient."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Visual Studio are the way we are able to design code, deploy, and test our application. It is easy to move an artifact from the start to the deployment stage. It has well-defined processes that you can integrate with any team. Additionally, the solution is always improving."
"I have found that it is scalable."
"We use TFS for our scrums, which links our tasks to actual code changes."
 

Cons

"Sometimes we have issues with instability and it crashes, which is something that should be made to work better."
"The capability related to Python needs to be improved."
"The caching could improve in ASP.NET. I don't often run into limitations with ASP.NET. More often, it's the other tools we use that slow us down."
"There should be consistent customization related to security, features, and developers, making the solution more understandable and adaptable."
"The solution is out of date and should not be used."
"The solution's initial setup is intermediate, and it could be improved."
"The technology to integrate with cloud information could be improved."
"ASP.NET is not the best solution for all companies looking to implement a solution like it."
"The technical support can be slow."
"Long installation or upgrade times are sometimes a problem."
"Microsoft should add more visualization for analytical studies or research."
"The best advice I can give to others is to take training because it's so easy to use out of the box. However, you might tend to install it and maybe configure it improperly. You need to have some training."
"I would like to see support for rapid application development. For example, if I am developing a new project, I am repeating many similar steps again and again and again. But the platform could do this easily, instead of me. It would save me time. This is something I would like to have in Microsoft Visual Studio, to have it take over repetitive tasks from me."
"The tool's interface should be more user-friendly."
"Despite its advantages, challenges in diverse cloud environments may prompt the uninstallation of the application or entire development environment for resolution."
"IntelliSense could be better."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is somewhere in the middle. Not too expensive, but not the cheapest either."
"The pricing is a bit high and I believe that it can be brought down."
"The solution is open source and free."
"ASP.NET is not an expensive solution."
"ASP.NET is open-source and free of charge."
"I think ASP.NET, in deployment, is something that's quite costly when you're on a cloud provider such as Azure, and you have to pay the server cost. On average, it can cost approximately $1,000 per month to host a good site with a few databases."
"The solution requires a licensing fee but is worth the investment."
"This is a free solution. However, we have some server licensing costs which are not directly a cost of using the solution."
"I'm using the platform's open-source version."
"The development license for Microsoft Visual Studio is free. I don't know if there's a licensing cost to it."
"I am working with the open-source community version, which is free."
"You have to be a subscriber with a Visual Studio subscription to use the solution and the organization has to purchase a license that's linked to the account."
"You may have to purchase more hardware utilities like processors or RAM."
"Our purchasing department pays a fair price for it."
"The cost of using Microsoft Visual Studio monthly is approximately $300."
"Licensing costs are reasonable."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Performing Arts
17%
Marketing Services Firm
15%
Real Estate/Law Firm
12%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Marketing Services Firm
19%
Performing Arts
12%
Computer Software Company
10%
Outsourcing Company
8%
 

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 Enterprise19
Large Enterprise50
 

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 costs, and licensing for Microsoft Visual Studio is that the pricing is free, which is perfect.
What needs improvement with Microsoft Visual Studio?
I think Microsoft Visual Studio is a very good tool and I do not have many improvements to suggest. The only thing I can think of is that I quite regularly get notifications that interrupt my workf...
What is your primary use case for Microsoft Visual Studio?
My main use case for Microsoft Visual Studio is writing code, specifically infrastructure as code to build resources in cloud platforms such as AWS EC2 instances, Google IAM resources, and networks...
 

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Sample Customers

Kienzle Automotive GmbH, Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Vengo Labs, Oneview Healthcare, BookedOut, Ministry of Rural Development, Grupo WRR
Knab, Hamburg Port Authority, Kecioren Municipality, National Instruments, Hamburg Port Authority, Government of Odisha, Kongsberg Maritime AS
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