We performed a comparison between Microsoft Visual Studio, SharePoint Designer, and Zend Studio based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"Microsoft Visual Studio is a must-have tool if you work in Windows environments."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with different databases."
"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."
"It is pretty simple to set up."
"The product integrates well with Azure Cloud, and it supports a ton of languages."
"You can easily create, edit, and test any software and develop applications for all the major platforms, including cloud, desktop, and mobile."
"Notably, the Enterprise version facilitates seamless integration with Microsoft products, leveraging the ease of connectivity within the Microsoft ecosystem."
"The most valuable feature is the capability to directly access the SharePoint data structure."
"The most valuable feature of SharePoint Designer is document management."
"The feature I find most valuable, is the workflow of the product."
"It's been stable for me. I haven't encountered any issues with the sites I've developed locally within the organization as long as the license remains valid."
"We used SharePoint Designer 2013 widely for data mining, exploring the content, and editing. Those are the main features that you would need to use SharePoint Designer for."
"If you're working in a communication channel team, SharePoint Designer is a great solution because it helps to have some customized solutions in terms of communication and to create web experiences for external teams."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"We like the highly customizable websites that you can build."
"It has the ability to jump to any file in your project with a few keystrokes, as well as the ability to command-click on any token in your code and have it jump to the token's definition."
"It has higher quality code, faster debugging, and higher quality projects."
"I would like to see support for rapid application development. For example, if I am developing a new project, I am repeating many similar steps again and again and again. But the platform could do this easily, instead of me. It would save me time. This is something I would like to have in Microsoft Visual Studio, to have it take over repetitive tasks from me."
"I would like the solution to have a designing default in addition to the current coding default."
"File installations are heavy."
"Microsoft should add more visualization for analytical studies or research."
"They could add new modules to the platform for enhanced functioning."
"There have been some issues but not very often."
"Microsoft Visual Studio needs to improve integration."
"It has a ton of options and that sometimes can become very, very overwhelming for a new person, a new developer."
"I have heard of clients that have complained about the stability once a certain amount of data, over 200 gigs has been reached as well as the stability of SQL Databases."
"SharePoint Designer is not releasing a new version. Version 2013 was the latest version. Now in 2019, we are still using the biggest version. It doesn't work properly anymore. Sometimes we experience issues, but there is no new version."
"The downside is the different versions of SharePoint which means we need to have different designers as not all versions are compatible."
"If they included some training modules, I would give them a ten, because that would make it even more user-friendly."
"Adding guest users is a bit difficult on SharePoint."
"The search capabilities need to be improved."
"It would be helpful to have the SharePoint Designer capabilities built directly into SharePoint itself, into the management page, so as to create an online version of it directly in SharePoint."
"The initial setup depends on company specifics. So, it's a bit complex."
"Most recent set of patches (2018) on Mac OS X caused the app to crash when you would cut more than 10 lines of code. Apparently, this was due to a bug in Eclipse, but regardless, it took several months for Zend to post a patch."
"Stability is sometimes lacking in updates."
"The debugger often has problems determining where to map files to local projects."
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