We performed a comparison between Microsoft Visual Studio and SharePoint Designer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two .NET Development Services solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features are the extensions."
"It is a straightforward solution to set up."
"This solution can integrate with almost any functionality offered by Microsoft."
"The most valuable feature is that it is a complete package, with an IDE and everything that you need for software development."
"The solution includes a debug function that I can breakpoint to easily detect what is wrong with my applications."
"Most valuable features include code navigation by symbols and document auto formatting."
"Microsoft Visual Studio's most valuable features are usability. It's an integrated development environment, they have a lot of built-in tools that will be helpful for a new developer to quickly develop their applications, such as mobile applications or web applications."
"I like the product's connection with Azure analytics services and the ability to build the model on the cloud."
"When you have a group project and you want to share your document with your group members, the solution is very useful."
"The initial setup is not too complex."
"Retrieving documents and uploading them is easy."
"The most valuable aspects of the solution are the user-friendly interface and easy workflow."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"We like the highly customizable websites that you can build."
"It saved me big time once! My car got broken into and they took my laptop with all my files. But I didn't have to worry because everything was backed up on SharePoint. It was a lifesaver!"
"The most valuable feature is the capability to directly access the SharePoint data structure."
"There have been some issues but not very often."
"Every time it updates, there are issues."
"The GUI of Microsoft Visual Studio could improve."
"The tool's interface should be more user-friendly."
"It would be better if it didn't get stuck. Sometimes when we are writing code, we open too many tabs and modules, and it gets stuck."
"The product could be improved by including axle intelligence."
"Microsoft Visual Studio could benefit from a more centralized education system."
"IntelliSense could be better."
"The pain point of SharePoint Designer is sometimes it gives you issues that can be resolved mostly by clearing the cache, but Microsoft should still work on it and make the product more stable. Another issue related to SharePoint Designer is that with the newer SharePoint versions, Microsoft hasn't released a newer version of SharePoint Designer. Instead, Microsoft is recommending that you use the same old SharePoint Designer 2013. If Microsoft updates SharePoint Designer, the product will be more beneficial."
"Exporting the whole SharePoint website is an issue."
"The interface of SharePoint Designer could be improved, such as in SAP."
"The web services aspect of the solution is very weak."
"I would like to see SharePoint improve the integration with different systems. I also would like to see more customization."
"SharePoint Designer could improve most in analytics and reporting."
"It has a lot of bugs. It's also not very convenient. The UX/UI is not very user-friendly and not designed to be similar to other applications from Microsoft."
"We would like to see an improvement in the stability and overall consistency of performance in this solution."
Microsoft Visual Studio is ranked 1st in .NET Development Services with 79 reviews while SharePoint Designer is ranked 2nd in .NET Development Services with 49 reviews. Microsoft Visual Studio is rated 8.4, while SharePoint Designer is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Microsoft Visual Studio writes "Easy to use, works well in the Microsoft Windows ecosystem, and integrates well with Git". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SharePoint Designer writes "Intuitive, customizable, and reliable". Microsoft Visual Studio is most compared with Genero and Microsoft Silverlight, whereas SharePoint Designer is most compared with ASP.NET. See our Microsoft Visual Studio vs. SharePoint Designer report.
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