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ASP.NET vs Microsoft Visual Studio comparison

 

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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 May 2026, in the .NET Development Services category, the mindshare of ASP.NET is 11.9%, down from 13.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Visual Studio is 15.9%, up from 14.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
.NET Development Services Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Microsoft Visual Studio15.9%
ASP.NET11.9%
Other72.2%
.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

"The developer support for ASP.NET is a big positive, it's actually very good, and since there are so many people who use ASP.NET, it's easy to get responses to questions about ASP.NET in the broader community."
"Easy to use and develop pages."
"It is completely, positively, and positively assisting us."
"The most valuable features are ease of use, scalability, and flexibility."
"It is easy to install ASP.NET on your laptop."
"ASP.NET does have good support for Web APIs for creating RESTful services."
"The main pro is that it's very easy and we have Microsoft helping to stabilize the product which is coming with the all new features every year."
"ASP.NET is stable. I did not have to do any maintenance on it."
"What I like the most about Microsoft Visual Studio is that it's useful, it's also a very stable solution and is scalable as well, and it's quick to set up as it only took me a few seconds to do it."
"The installation of the solution is easy."
"The code analysis tool is particularly valuable as it eliminates the need for manual code reviews."
"One of the most valuable features is its support. It's easy for me to get support even though I never use it. If there's a bug or a performance issue, Microsoft also provides quick updates, and this is another valuable feature of the program."
"I like the IDE or the integrated development environment. It's the best IDE."
"Microsoft Visual Studio is a must-have tool if you work in Windows environments."
"I like the IDE or the integrated development environment. It's the best IDE."
"My advice for anybody who is considering using Visual Studio is that it is a complete package that contains everything you need for .NET code development."
 

Cons

"It's important to focus on productivity. The more heavyweight the system becomes, the more we need to focus only on our core and repeated functionalities, making them easier for us."
"ASP.NET is not the best solution for all companies looking to implement a solution like it."
"Not best for SEO out of the box."
"In my opinion, this solution should improve their web toolkit."
"It should be open source or deployable to any operating system so that the dependency can be removed."
"The capability related to Python needs to be improved."
"There are often stability issues when new updates are first released."
"Sometimes we have issues with instability and it crashes, which is something that should be made to work better."
"Technical support can be slow to respond at times."
"I am facing some problems with technical support."
"I would rate Microsoft Visual Studio a seven out of ten. I rate it a seven because you can't use it on all platforms."
"With the free version, we don't have that much support for Visual Studio. Its support is a little bit less and can be better."
"I quite regularly get notifications that interrupt my workflow, telling me that Microsoft Visual Studio could be updated."
"There could be more coding languages in the solution."
"I would like to see Visual Studio improve reporting to give us more details on failures. When there are failures, it's difficult to debug."
"Support for spell checking comments should be inbuilt and automatically installed."
 

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."
"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 price of ASP.NET is reasonable. I rate the pricing a five out of ten."
"ASP.NET is not an expensive solution."
"ASP.NET is open-source and free of charge."
"This is a free solution. However, we have some server licensing costs which are not directly a cost of using the solution."
"The solution is a free tool."
"Microsoft Visual Studio is a free product."
"Licensing costs are reasonable."
"The price of Microsoft Visual Studio is reasonable but could be better."
"The price of Microsoft Visual Studio could be lowered. For a single developer, it is approximately $1,000."
"Our purchasing department pays a fair price for it."
"Microsoft Visual Studio is not expensive. Its licensing costs are expensive."
"There's a community edition that is absolutely free to use. It's pretty good."
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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 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 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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