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."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."
"Other valuable features are the ability able to update the master file, and creating the workflow."
"Retrieving documents and uploading them is easy."
"The support on offer is helpful."
"The most valuable features of SharePoint Designer are integration and collaboration capabilities, such as allowing more than one person to edit a file."
"I would rate the solution's stability a nine out of ten."
"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."
"When you have a group project and you want to share your document with your group members, the solution is very useful."
"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."
"In the solution, if you have a case of accidental deletion, there's no restoration, which should have been there."
"SharePoint does not have enough resources to cover the security part."
"Sharepoint could improve the user interface to make it easier for everyone to navigate and use. That would be a big plus."
"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 designer itself could be improved, as it isn't particularly intuitive."
"The interface of SharePoint Designer could be improved, such as in SAP."
"I would like to be able to use SharePoint Designer without having to buy other third party programs."
"The pricing is a little bit high and can be reduced."
"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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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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