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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 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

"It is completely, positively, and positively assisting us."
"ASP.NET's best features are its application structure and API testing."
"I have found the entity framework to be a valuable feature. The authentication layer is amazing as well. ASP.NET has a vibrant community, and as a result, we haven't had the need to contact technical support."
"ASP.NET works well with Windows applications and more generally, the Windows platform."
"The solution's framework supports storing all client-side and server-side code in one place."
"We find the solution to be scalable."
"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."
"Easy to use and develop pages."
"The solution includes a debug function that I can breakpoint to easily detect what is wrong with my applications."
"Code management is a new and convenient feature."
"I have found that it is scalable."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Visual Studio are debugging and IntelliSense."
"Microsoft Visual Studio is highly stable."
"It is easy to integrate with GitHub. We integrate with GitHub, and we deploy our solution on our local system. We need this integration for pushing our code. When we were working with Eclipse, we had to write everything in the command prompt, which is a little bit tricky, whereas Visual Studio is very much UI-based and simple. So, it's very easy to integrate GitHub with Visual Studio. It is much easier than Eclipse."
"The solution is a very good tool, and I like the performance, stability and ease of use."
"We have no issues with scaling."
 

Cons

"The con is that every year they are launching a new technology, and for a company like us, we get confused which version should be used."
"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."
"The technology to integrate with cloud information could be improved."
"In the future, I would like to see more AI and machine learning technologies made available in libraries."
"ASP.NET does not support Apple or macOS devices."
"Sometimes we have issues with instability and it crashes, which is something that should be made to work better."
"Scripted languages like AngularJS and Node.js are much faster than using ASP on the client side."
"The pages are relatively large and hence may be slow."
"There is room for improvement in the price of the solution overall."
"When Microsoft shifted their service to regions like China and India, the support team there was not professional and lacked adequate knowledge."
"The initial setup could be more straightforward."
"I wish Microsoft Visual Studio was not bulkier. Probably sometimes the load time is more significant compared to other lightweight editors."
"There is room for improvement in the price of the solution overall."
"I would like to see more tools in the next release."
"The stability of Microsoft Visual Studio could improve. There are times it hangs or stops working and I have to restart the program."
"Every time it updates, there are issues."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is a bit high and I believe that it can be brought down."
"The price of ASP.NET is reasonable. I rate the pricing a five out of ten."
"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 solution is comparatively cheaper, and you don't have to pay anything for a developer license."
"On a scale from one to ten, with one being cost efficient and 10 being the most expensive, I would rate ASP.NET's pricing at six. 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."
"ASP.NET is open-source and free of charge."
"The solution is free to use."
"I am working with the open-source community version, which is free."
"We are using the solution's free version."
"The solution is a free tool."
"I use Microsoft Visual Studio's free version."
"Its price could be better."
"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."
"I'm using the platform's open-source version."
"The license is taken care of by my company and the price could be less expensive."
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9%
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15%
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10%
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8%
Financial Services Firm
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 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
Knab, Hamburg Port Authority, Kecioren Municipality, National Instruments, Hamburg Port Authority, Government of Odisha, Kongsberg Maritime AS
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