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ASP.NET vs SharePoint Designer [EOL] comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

ASP.NET
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
35
Ranking in other categories
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SharePoint Designer [EOL]
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
49
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

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.
Vladimir Vasilev - PeerSpot reviewer
Digital Lead at Baker Tilly
Helps to centralize and share files and has an easy setup
I'm using the solution for creating different sites in our organization. We also use it for a file repository mainly.  It's provided us with a centralized document database that is available to all collaborators 24/7. There are good features in general. It helps centralize and store files.  It's…

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

Pros

"The most valuable features are ease of use, scalability, and flexibility."
"I would say that we have seen a return on investment when it comes to this solution."
"It is easy to install ASP.NET on your laptop."
"We find the solution to be scalable."
"ASP.NET is stable. I did not have to do any maintenance on it."
"The solution's framework supports storing all client-side and server-side code in one place."
"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."
"It is seamless compared to Java or any other technology stack."
"I am a developer, and whatever is not possible with the SharePoint default feature, we make custom features available for our clients. Anything which is not possible using all the methods within the solution we can customize."
"The solution is scalable."
"The most valuable part of the solution is its ability to allow for a high degree of customization."
"The most valuable features of SharePoint Designer are integration and collaboration capabilities, such as allowing more than one person to edit a file."
"The most valuable aspects of the solution are the user-friendly interface and easy workflow."
"You can give document access to people based on their email addresses. You will also get notifications whenever the document is ready for review."
"I find the document management and search of SharePoint the most valuable features."
"SharePoint has very good features for collaboration."
 

Cons

"ASP.NET is not the best solution for all companies looking to implement a solution like it."
"In addition to the visual aspect, there is a need for ASP.NET to provide a robust visual front end like there was in the past."
"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."
"ASP.NET is a very slow tool, and it should be faster."
"The technology to integrate with cloud information could 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."
"Sometimes we have issues with instability and it crashes, which is something that should be made to work better."
"I am sure there is something that has room for improvement but nothing specific comes to mind."
"The solution is not scalable at all."
"SharePoint Designer could be improved by being more user-friendly. I think that they have a new release, but the focus is on Power Automate, not Designer. Designer's interface is somewhat classical, but it should be more user-friendly."
"The record management and digital signature sides need improvement because we still need to rely on other third-party tools."
"If they included some training modules, I would give them a ten, because that would make it even more user-friendly."
"We would like to see an improvement in the stability and overall consistency of performance in this solution."
"In the solution, if you have a case of accidental deletion, there's no restoration, which should have been there."
"The solution requires more web-based publishing. It would benefit from adding in more collaboration features as well."
"Designer is easy to manage."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is comparatively cheaper, and you don't have to pay anything for a developer license."
"ASP.NET is not an expensive solution."
"The price of ASP.NET is reasonable. I rate the pricing a five out of ten."
"The pricing is a bit high and I believe that it can be brought down."
"The solution requires a licensing fee but is worth the investment."
"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."
"ASP.NET is open-source and free of charge."
"The solution is open source and free."
"Most of the time, our customer's license from Microsoft includes the cost of SharePoint. However, if you have to buy it then SharePoint is quite expensive."
"The price is reasonable."
"We are using an enterprise SharePoint Designer license."
"SharePoint Designer is less expensive than other solutions we have used. We purchased Office 365 which SharePoint comes with the package."
"The entire package is expensive. There is no extra cost in addition to the standard license."
"Priced per user per month with different plans to choose from."
"This solution is free of charge."
"The tool is free of cost."
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Small Business16
Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise13
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Small Business19
Midsize Enterprise8
Large Enterprise21
 

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...
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