We performed a comparison between SharePoint Designer and Zend Studio based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"We appreciate the fact that this solution can provide us with an on-premises version, as due to our geographical location, we are not able to use cloud-based tools."
"SharePoint Designer is easy to deploy and it is one of the most valuable features. The whole process took a couple of days and it is easy to work on."
"The initial setup is not too complex."
"I am a developer, and whatever is not possible with the SharePoint default feature, we make custom features available for our clients. Anything which is not possible using all the methods within the solution we can customize."
"The most valuable features of SharePoint Designer are integration and collaboration capabilities, such as allowing more than one person to edit a file."
"The solution tightly integrates with all other collaboration tools."
"When you have a group project and you want to share your document with your group members, the solution is very useful."
"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."
"The solution is not very flexible when trying to access the solution via a personal PC."
"Adding guest users is a bit difficult on SharePoint."
"We would like to see an improvement in the stability and overall consistency of performance in this solution."
"SharePoint Designer could be improved by being more user-friendly. I think that they have a new release, but the focus is on Power Automate, not Designer. Designer's interface is somewhat classical, but it should be more user-friendly."
"There is zero technical support. I have to use Google to fix the issues myself."
"The designer itself could be improved, as it isn't particularly intuitive."
"I want the tool to be more approachable to people. I would like to see AI integration with the tool's future versions."
"SharePoint does not have enough resources to cover the security part."
"The debugger often has problems determining where to map files to local projects."
"Stability is sometimes lacking in updates."
"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."
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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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