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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

"The solution is easy to learn, understand and develop."
"The solution is very easy to maintain because UI management is simple and many libraries are available."
"The solution is useful for seeing what old technology was before the new technology we use today, such as .NET."
"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."
"ASP.NET's best features are its application structure and API testing."
"I would say that we have seen a return on investment when it comes to this solution."
"Our main product is built using ASP.Net, so basically ASP.Net is helping us formulate the future of our company."
"ASP.Net and Microsoft technologies platform has helped in improving our services to our clients."
"Microsoft Visual Studio helps my company improve efficiency in software development suites."
"The feature I find most valuable is the fact that it's broad-spectrum, so it can be used for a wide variety of technologies."
"The most valuable feature is how smoothly it runs."
"Basically everything, it's a useful integrated development environment and it is easy and simple to use for me."
"Microsoft Visual Studio is the best tool that we've got currently, and I don't have any complaints about it."
"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."
"It's a great product and it's very easy to understand and develop the application."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with different databases."
 

Cons

"The capability related to Python needs to be improved."
"The most important thing to improve in the next release would be support in tooling and high-level designer toolbox for cross-platform mobile app development."
"ASP.NET is not the best solution for all companies looking to implement a solution like it."
"The technology to integrate with cloud information could be improved."
"In my opinion, this solution should improve their web toolkit."
"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."
"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."
"There are often stability issues when new updates are first released."
"I would like to see more tools in the next release."
"It would be nice if Visual Studio's extensions and updates could self-correct, if they are not working or disabled, and also inform the user."
"Its IntelliSense, while overall good, I think it can be improved by covering the local status."
"Could be improved with the ability to personalize the interface and development style and to edit extension requirements."
"I am facing some problems with technical support."
"I give it a nine because it does not support Android."
"A kind of tutorial page should be embedded in the software to enable first-time users learn more without the help of an expert."
"In my department, they do not like Microsoft Visual Studio, but across the departments, we will increase the usage of Microsoft Visual Studio."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution requires a licensing fee but is worth the investment."
"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."
"The solution is free to use."
"The solution is comparatively cheaper, and you don't have to pay anything for a developer license."
"The solution is open source and free."
"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."
"This is a free solution. However, we have some server licensing costs which are not directly a cost of using the solution."
"We use the free version, and you don't need a license."
"The cost of using Microsoft Visual Studio is approximately $1,700 per user."
"You may have to purchase more hardware utilities like processors or RAM."
"The price of Microsoft Visual Studio could be lowered. For a single developer, it is approximately $1,000."
"There's a community edition that is absolutely free to use. It's pretty good."
"I use the open-source version of Microsoft Visual Studio."
"The cost of using Microsoft Visual Studio monthly is approximately $300."
"I am using the free version of Microsoft Visual Studio."
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Top Industries

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15%
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9%
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9%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Marketing Services Firm
13%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Construction Company
9%
Performing Arts
9%
 

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
Knab, Hamburg Port Authority, Kecioren Municipality, National Instruments, Hamburg Port Authority, Government of Odisha, Kongsberg Maritime AS
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