We performed a comparison between SharePoint Designer and Zend Studio based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Adobe, FourJs and others in .NET Development Services."The document filing system is the solution's most valuable feature. We have used SharePoint as an option for a document managed system, like Documentum and IBM Filenet."
"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."
"The technical support from Microsoft is very good."
"SharePoint has very good features for collaboration."
"The new version doesn't have the option to view data, but it has other, better features though."
"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 of SharePoint Designer is document management."
"What I found most valuable in SharePoint Designer is that through it, you can perform a lot of SharePoint functionalities, such as creating SharePoint lists and libraries, as well as customizing pages."
"It has higher quality code, faster debugging, and higher quality projects."
"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."
"I want the tool to be more approachable to people. I would like to see AI integration with the tool's future versions."
"We'd like it if we got less frequent updates."
"I would like to be able to use SharePoint Designer without having to buy other third party programs."
"I believe Microsoft does not support Sharepoint on-premises. They only support Sharepoint on the Cloud. They should provide for both options and let the client choose their preference."
"Designer is easy to manage."
"I am not sure how stable the solution will be once Microsoft stops supporting it."
"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."
"The system can become slow which should be improved."
"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."
"The debugger often has problems determining where to map files to local projects."
"Stability is sometimes lacking in updates."
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SharePoint Designer is ranked 2nd in .NET Development Services with 49 reviews while Zend Studio is ranked 8th in .NET Development Services. SharePoint Designer is rated 7.6, while Zend Studio is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of SharePoint Designer writes "Intuitive, customizable, and reliable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zend Studio writes "It has higher quality code, faster debugging, and higher quality projects". SharePoint Designer is most compared with Microsoft Visual Studio and ASP.NET, whereas Zend Studio is most compared with .
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