We performed a comparison between SharePoint Designer and Zend Studio based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The technical support from Microsoft is very good."
"What I like most about this solution, is that we can use it as a secondary customization platform."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"The basic functionality the solution makes it easy to share documents or information with the team."
"The most valuable feature is the capability to directly access the SharePoint data structure."
"The workflow is the solution's most valuable feature."
"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."
"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."
"SharePoint is too complex to install and maintain."
"Adding guest users is a bit difficult on SharePoint."
"The interface of SharePoint Designer could be improved, such as in SAP."
"Sharepoint could improve the user interface to make it easier for everyone to navigate and use. That would be a big plus."
"The web services aspect of the solution is very weak."
"The search capabilities need to be improved."
"Microsoft could include more applications in this. And if more applications are included, then it can be scalable that way."
"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."
"Stability is sometimes lacking in updates."
"The debugger often has problems determining where to map files to local projects."
"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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