Try our new research platform with insights from 80,000+ expert users

ASP.NET vs SharePoint Designer comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

ASP.NET
Ranking in .NET Development Services
3rd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
30
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
SharePoint Designer
Ranking in .NET Development Services
2nd
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
49
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the .NET Development Services category, the mindshare of ASP.NET is 11.0%, up from 8.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SharePoint Designer is 12.7%, down from 20.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
.NET Development Services
 

Featured Reviews

Brandon Smith - PeerSpot reviewer
Beneficial thread management, and asynchronous processing, and template-driven setup
The initial setup of ASP.NET was complex in general, but compared to other cloud deployment projects I have done, it was relatively easy, particularly when it came to integrating with Microsoft Azure. Other projects involving Kubernetes, have been much more complicated in comparison. This project was less difficult than others. It took a few weeks to get the infrastructure set up from scratch and gather information. There were changing requirements, it's hard to compare, but it took two to three weeks to get an initial setup. Since then, we've been adding to it as we go. It's not difficult to set up and deploy new things as everything is template-driven and it's easy to work with Microsoft Azure to define and export templates.
Vivek Vaibhav - PeerSpot reviewer
Intuitive, customizable, and reliable
Exporting the whole SharePoint website is an issue. For example, let's say I want to deploy it in the client environment. Right now, this was based on our own company's environment and if I wanted to deploy that onto the client's environment. To do this, I will have to recreate everything from scratch, which takes a lot of time. There should be a way somewhere where I can download the custom designs I have made and upload them to the client servers so that we can configure them on their servers. Secondly, when you have uploaded data, for example, from an Excel spreadsheet, you download it in the form of a dot IQY file. This IQY file is a bit tough to work with as it's a server-side file. If there was any option where you could just download the flat files and work with them, that would have been great.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The developer support for ASP.NET is a big positive. It's actually very good, and since there are so many people who use ASP.NET, it's easy to get responses to questions about ASP.NET in the broader community."
"The solution is easy to integrate and understand. It has a very good user interface and a lot of prebuilt tools, which require a lot less coding if we compare it to other solutions."
"The solution has good scalability."
"The solution is very easy to maintain because UI management is simple and many libraries are available."
"I would say that we have seen a return on investment when it comes to this solution."
"The most valuable feature is that it's easy to use."
"ASP.NET is stable. I did not have to do any maintenance on it."
"It's a pretty stable solution."
"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."
"Other valuable features are the ability able to update the master file, and creating the workflow."
"I would rate the solution's stability a nine out of ten."
"The most valuable features of SharePoint Designer are integration and collaboration capabilities, such as allowing more than one person to edit a file."
"When you have a group project and you want to share your document with your group members, the solution is very useful."
"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."
"We mostly used this solution for file storage and basic functions, etcetera."
"One of the most valuable features is that it's free. If you have SharePoint and you want to do some branding, then the only tool available is SharePoint Designer. Microsoft gives the portal, the content management system, and, on top of that, it gives you Designer. So we don't have a choice, but Designer is good."
 

Cons

"In my opinion, this solution should improve their web toolkit."
"Performance is an area that can always be improved."
"Sometimes it can be really difficult to debug using ASP.NET. When there's an issue, trying to find out the cause is not always easy, so debugging is the top area for improvement, in my opinion."
"It could use better reporting and documentation."
"There used to be IAF, which you could spin on a Windows machine. However, that sort of setup does not exist for Linux machines. Because customers still prefer a Windows underlying infrastructure, it can get expensive."
"The con is that every year they are launching a new technology, and for a company like us, we get confused which version should be used."
"In the future, I would like to see more AI and machine learning technologies made available in libraries."
"The solution is out of date and should not be used."
"SharePoint Designer's integration with Microsoft tools could be improved."
"The solution is a bit complex. They should work to simplify it."
"We'd like it if we got less frequent updates."
"It needs to align with PowerApps and Power Automate."
"Further development for SharePoint online would be ideal. However, I'm not sure if it's true that Microsoft will no longer develop SharePoint Designer in the future or not."
"Sharepoint could improve the user interface to make it easier for everyone to navigate and use. That would be a big plus."
"There is zero technical support. I have to use Google to fix the issues myself."
"I am not sure how stable the solution will be once Microsoft stops supporting it."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is somewhere in the middle. Not too expensive, but not the cheapest either."
"The pricing is a bit high and I believe that it can be brought down."
"ASP.NET is not an expensive solution."
"The solution is free to use."
"The solution is open source and free."
"ASP.NET is open-source and free of charge."
"I think ASP.NET, in deployment, is something that's quite costly when you're on a cloud provider such as Azure, and you have to pay the server cost. On average, it can cost approximately $1,000 per month to host a good site with a few databases."
"The price of ASP.NET is reasonable. I rate the pricing a five out of ten."
"SharePoint Online has a subscription-based model for payments and the price is based on user usage."
"There is no licensing cost for Designer—it's free."
"The cost of the license is based on the size of the user base."
"I use Macintosh devices, and because this solution is not available in the Apple Ecosystem I use it because it is cost-effective."
"The tool's pricing is cheap."
"SharePoint Designer is a free product. It's SharePoint that needs a license, not SharePoint Designer."
"The cost of the solution is based on multiple factors such as the number of users, and any customization that may be required."
"SharePoint Designer's pricing is okay."
report
Use our free recommendation engine to learn which .NET Development Services solutions are best for your needs.
838,713 professionals have used our research since 2012.
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
16%
Government
15%
Computer Software Company
11%
University
7%
Government
19%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
12%
University
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about ASP.NET?
It is easy to install ASP.NET on your laptop.
What needs improvement with ASP.NET?
ASP.NET is a very slow tool, and it should be faster.
What do you like most about SharePoint Designer?
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!
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SharePoint Designer?
I've leased Microsoft SharePoint Designer for the enterprise, not System Center. It's for private work, web development specifically.
What needs improvement with SharePoint Designer?
For me, it's flexible enough for most things. But maybe they could improve the user interface to make it easier for everyone to navigate and use. That would be a big plus.
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Kienzle Automotive GmbH, Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Vengo Labs, Oneview Healthcare, BookedOut, Ministry of Rural Development, Grupo WRR
Pyrotek Inc., ICA, Deliver Australia, Secretary of Economy of Mexico, Aegon, ABB Switzerland, Ascent Yarns Private Limited, Bakewell Biscuits Pvt Ltd, Hitachi Consulting
Find out what your peers are saying about ASP.NET vs. SharePoint Designer and other solutions. Updated: January 2025.
838,713 professionals have used our research since 2012.