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."I like the IDE or the integrated development environment. It's the best IDE."
"Visual Studio is a tool used for custom software development. It covers everything under this umbrella, including architecture for automation testing."
"The stability is fine."
"It is a stable solution."
"We use the solution to develop applications."
"Microsoft Visual Studio is a must-have tool if you work in Windows environments."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Visual Studio are the availability of many extensions, an interpreter, a code formator, and helpful dark and light modes."
"I like the product's connection with Azure analytics services and the ability to build the model on the cloud."
"You can give document access to people based on their email addresses. You will also get notifications whenever the document is ready for review."
"The most valuable features of SharePoint Designer are integration and collaboration capabilities, such as allowing more than one person to edit a file."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable part of the solution is its ability to allow for a high degree of customization."
"The solution tightly integrates with all other collaboration tools."
"The management and monitoring features are good."
"We like that the interface is very user-friendly making it easy to use."
"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."
"Microsoft Visual Studio can improve integration with the Microsoft Office suite; this was only implemented in 2022."
"Microsoft Visual Studio needs to improve integration."
"The interface could be more user friendly"
"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."
"There have been some issues but not very often."
"Sometimes, the deprecation of packages can be a challenge."
"The migration could improve in Microsoft Visual Studio. When I upgraded from 2017 and up to 2022 it was not smooth. There was a lot of manual hand-picking. Microsoft should put a higher budget for the database developers' section in Visual Studio."
"There could be more coding languages in the solution."
"SharePoint Designer needs filter options for lists and libraries."
"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."
"The initial setup depends on company specifics. So, it's a bit complex."
"Exporting the whole SharePoint website is an issue."
"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."
"The solution is a bit complex. They should work to simplify it."
"There is zero technical support. I have to use Google to fix the issues myself."
"The system can become slow which should be improved."
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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