Microsoft .NET Framework Reviews

We use Microsoft .NET Framework for testing and development for RPE.

The most valuable thing about Microsoft .NET Framework is that it is an enterprise-grade language and platform.

Microsoft .NET Framework has a steep learning curve, which could be improved.

I have been using Microsoft .NET Framework for five years.

Microsoft .NET Framework is a stable solution.

I rate Microsoft .NET Framework a nine out of ten for stability.

Microsoft .NET Framework is a scalable solution. In my previous job, around 20 to 50 users used Microsoft .NET Framework.

I rate Microsoft .NET Framework a nine out of ten for scalability.

The solution’s initial setup is easy.

The solution takes only a few minutes or hours to deploy.

Just one person is required for the solution's deployment.

Microsoft .NET Framework is a free, open source solution.

We don't maintain the solution because it's a framework that does not need to be maintained.

I recommend users use the solution's online documentation because it's open and free.

Overall, I rate Microsoft .NET Framework a nine out of ten.

Our primary use case is custom business applications, Integration services using WCF/Web API.

Using this framework has enabled us to create services out of things things that we used to do manually. Not only has it made our lives easier, but it has increased productivity as well.

The most valuable features for us are web frameworks like MVC, Web API, and WCF.

I would like to see more pre-built features in the MVC framework because as it is now, it's very open and you have to develop your own controls in order to use it. It would be much easier for us if there were more pre-built controls.

There should be more security features included.

The performance should be improved.

The technical support is in need of improvement to make solving issues more efficient.

I have been using the Microsoft .NET Framework for more than 16 years.

This is a very stable solution and we haven't had any issues.

This is a scalable framework but it depends on how you deploy the solution. Because it is a framework and not a product, it will give you options on how to develop your solution. If you develop it in a way that is scalable, then it will be scalable. But if you don't develop it properly then it will not be scalable.

In my previous company, we had approximately ten thousand users.

In my current company, we only use this solution internally. We have fewer than ten people, and they are business users. We do not currently have plans to increase usage but it may happen in the future.

On a scale from one to ten, I would rate Microsoft technical support a seven.

Whenever we are trying to solve issues by dealing with Microsoft, they ask so many irrelevant questions that it delays things.

We are also using WebLogic Suite with SharePoint on the server-side.

The initial setup was straightforward and the deployment took not more than two to three days.

We implemented this solution using our in-house team.

The Microsoft .NET Framework is free of charge, without licensing cost. The only cost is purchasing the hardware that it runs on.

Java SDK. Java SDK is also good but require little bit more effort.

My advice for anybody who wants to use the Microsoft .NET Framework is to have the proper foundation before implementing the solution. This means that they should lay the architecture first, properly, and then develop the solution based on the architecture. Without this, the solution will not be scalable and will suffer from problems in the long run.

This is a good solution but there is always room for improvement.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

We are part of the development team.

We use this solution with TFS as our ALM tool, and we use the information server for the deployment.

We have been using this solution for development for a long time and it has proven to be helpful.

The .NET framework is a mature platform that is very helpful and saves time during the software development process.

The IDE is quite helpful.

There is a lot of very extensive documentation available.

The price of the Enterprise version is quite high and can be improved. If Microsoft would provide a monthly subscription at a cost that a developer can afford then it would be really helpful.

From a security standpoint, the tools are not that mature.

I have been using the Microsoft .NET Framework for more than 25 years.

This is a very stable platform for enterprise development. It has been maturing since its inception and is very helpful for delivering products.

We have dealt with the technical support team and they are very helpful. Whenever there are issues, especially when troubleshooting in a production environment, Microsoft and the support people provide a lot of technical expertise and we are very happy with it.

This product is really helpful when compared to other solutions such as open-source platforms. All of the tools are interlinked, rather than having individual tools for individual features. What Microsoft provides is a complete tool, with all of the features contained.

The initial setup is easy. There is a vast amount of resources made available by Microsoft and a lot of guidance being provided to the developers. 

I lead a development team and the team members perform the deployments. There is a lot of guidance available on the Microsoft website that is really good, so the deployments are not troublesome.

There is a Community Edition that can be used free of charge, but the licensing cost for the Enterprise version is quite high. Some of the tools that are available in the Community Edition need a valid license to run.

Compared to other vendors, Microsoft products definitely have a higher price tag. I would say that is my only grievance.

Talking from an application developer's perspective, this platform is very helpful because it provides a common development line across all of the products that Microsoft provides. This includes things like Microsoft Dynamics, the Cloud Integration tool, and SharePoint. It makes it very easy to jump from one application tool to the other.

The Community Edition can be used free of charge and is helpful for both new developers, as well as those who are shifting to the Microsoft platform.

Over time, this product has matured and all of the new features have been helpful in improving the performance of application developers. Overall, we are very satisfied with using this platform for application development. It is very good. That said, there is always room for improvement.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

We have multiple in-house leasing and financing products (Contract Management System, Point of Sale, Credit Acceptance Management, Field Force Agent, Document Tracking) developed on .NET framework 4.5.2 with WPF, Silverlight, WCF and WWF technologies. We use smart client applications for client-side and Business Process Manager (i.e. based on WWF) for orchestration of business processes. We also have proprietary Task Assignment Workflow which is highly configurable based on business rules. Our clients can create custom business rules with the help of the data dictionary shared with them.

The product is evolving, based on the day-to-day needs of our customers and we are making sure to include maximum functionality to support their businesses. The main focus is on "more configuration and less coding," by using industry standard tools.

• Business Process Manager (BPM)
• Business Rules Engine (BRM)
• Document Management System (DMS)
• Automatic Release Deployment via PowerShell and Octopus
• Integration Hub serving as Enterprise Service Bus
• Metadata (i.e. compose database tables/columns, XML nodes; file data into placeholders so they can be placed in BPM, BRM, DMS)

I think we need improvement in our BPM module so that can become more user-friendly for our customers. There is plenty of room in WWF for improvement to make the UI/UX better for the end user, so they are comfortable with the orchestration.

We have issues with websites that are based on Angular, but the rest of the applications or websites are stable so far.

The only issue I have encountered is based on Queue Management. Regardless of whether it is Microsoft or IBM Message Queue, I have had issues while scaling them. The only option I have found is the introduction of multi-threading, but threads consume more processing power.

We were previously using PowerBuilder and then switched because of industry demands for transformation into new technology.

I would rate it at eight out of 10, as we can perform plenty of improvements in all our current products and can improve the UI/UX to meet the needs of the client.

You are able to develop applications using Microsoft .NET Framework. It is a development framework.

Using Microsoft.NET Framework we developed many Line of Business Applications, which empowers digital transformation and optimized business processes.

Framework provide almost all the technology stacks requires for custom development, only issue is if not used properly, it will create undesirable results.

MVC framework could be better if provide little bit more restrictive framework. Instead of allowing developers to adapt anything they want.

I have been using Microsoft .NET Framework for approximately 15 years.

The solution is stable because Mircosoft releases updates frequently.

The solution is scalable.

We have approximately 13 users using this solution.

When we have contacted Microsoft Support they ask too many questions and requiring too many details. They sometimes do not assign the right person that has the knowledge to deal with the support ticket.

The installation is straightforward. The time for the deployment depends on the environment, but it typically takes approximately 45 minutes.

I did the implementation myself. However, I would recommend using a team of experts for the deployment and maintenance of the solution.

The solution is free but you need to pay for a license for the hosting service.

Java server pages, j2ee. 

I would recommend this solution to others. However, they need to understand the capability of the Framework, and they should align their solution according to the Framework to prevent any showstopper or bottlenecks in their development process.

I rate Microsoft .NET Framework a nine out of ten.

We are working with version 2019, but we have clients who are still on older versions. We deployed the solution in 2014 or 2015 and they still haven't upgraded.

Cross-platform development is better than all of the other frameworks. When it comes to the user interface, the context is better than other tools because it is easier to use. You can still use C# in the developer infrastructure, which makes it far better and you don't have to learn a new language.

For me, the cost is what is most important. We have an agreement with Microsoft to co-sell some of the applications. When we started developing using the Microsoft Framework, it went well because we started making more money than the cost to Microsoft. We don't have this agreement with Red Hat or JBoss.

One thing that I like is that from the usability point of view, nothing has changed all that much. We use Visual Studio and if you compare the older version of Visual Studio from 2013 to the 2019 edition, the scale is still there. You're not moving to a different environment and you are still able to find your way around very quickly. With the new features, we are still able to feel those out within a short period.

For the mobile application, I like the iOS interface. Android is a little different from what you have on iOS, but the iOS package includes the same thing.

The pricing could be cheaper.

They should have more training materials available that are specific to .NET. We spend a lot of money training our engineers. I think that it would be better if there was more training available to the partners who invest in Microsoft.

At this time, the training is all over the place and there is no specific certification.

This solution is not scalable with older versions without using patches for it to work.

I have been working with this solution for more than ten years.

Microsoft's strategy is not scalable, especially with the Visual Studio environment. If for example, I am testing things from on older version, it's not available in the newer version. You will have to use notes and the patches for it to work.

Currently, we have two enterprises. One of them has over 1000 employees and an IT department with 200 developers.

The technical support has been excellent. If you are working with them, they are always there to connect with you all the way, which makes things so much better.

The first day takes a couple of hours and the second day is for the configuration and switching everything out to make sure that everyone has access to it. Then they test everything to make sure that it is fine and working. It's not a lot of work for us to do.

The support has been very good, maybe because we have a local office with resources.

Some of the issues with support is not with .NET, it's dealing with some of the packages that should offer support. One of the new products that Microsoft has introduced is called Dynamics 365, this is outside of .NET. We have been struggling to find someone for support, but unfortunately, it has to be through the US.

When it comes to everything else, the .NET Framework has a lot of support from the local Office.

If they struggle with .NET there is someone in the UK office that would be able to assist us.

The initial setup is easy for our guys who spend quite a bit of time with Microsoft.

Just today, one of the guys set up an environment for one of our clients on Azure. This was a Visual Studio environment and it took him two hours. He did not encounter any difficulties. 

We have guys take care of the server section and we have our developers that implement from the installation for the environment.

It seems very easy for them to get everything up and running.

Small clients don't do their development internally. We have three of these types of clients. Small to medium-sized organizations don't have an environment because they are easy to develop with easy requirements.

I would recommend this solution but it depends on the environment and what they want to do.

If you do mobile applications, to avoid the headaches of doing development on multiple platforms, I think that .NET is something that really works. We have tried everything, so when we try iOS it becomes a problem because we have to re-develop what you do for Android on iOS, even though we don't use Windows phones anymore. We can still use the same tools for your desktop applications.

If you have a different environment then you have to develop based on whatever application you are going to run your application on. 

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

We primarily use this solution for point-of-sale and finances. We also use it for maintaining student information, details about teachers, attendance, and grades.

The most valuable feature is the financial accounting.

This solution should include Power BI so that we don't have to use any third-party tools. Including business intelligence tools would allow for easy understanding and quick decision making. It will help as it is for summarizing all of the business-specific analytics.

We have been using the Microsoft .NET Framework for six years.

The Microsoft .NET Framework is 100% stable. We have to use it for our day-to-day activities. Also, based on the business functionality you have to keep upgrading.

This platform is easy to scale. We have approximately 100 users, five of which are administrators and the remainder are business users.

We have been in touch with Microsoft technical support and we are happy with their work.

Prior to Microsoft .NET, we used Oracle DPK. The problem with DPK is that it is old technology that was used ten or twelve years ago. It has some limitations regarding client-server models.

We switched because .NET is a very flexible framework for enhancements, and it is cost-effective for developers.

The initial setup is easy.

We used consultants for the deployment and we use third-party business intelligence tools for the integration.

We did have the option to go with PHP and Joomla, but we were concerned that it may not be available after a few years. When it comes to Microsoft technology, it is more stable and because they are a giant in technology, .NET will be an everlasting solution for which we can always find developers and support.

This is a product that I recommend.

I would rate this solution a ten out of ten.

As hardware evolved as mainframe, mid-range, mini, micro, personal computers (PC), while miniaturizing the silicon chips and other computer parts, computer software evolved as operating systems, systems software, computer applications, files (to persistent data), databases, etc. After mainframe applications, there was an age of client server software with PowerBuilder-Sybase-Oracle-Visual Basic.

Later came the web applications, where a client computer communicates a request to a server computer and the server computer sends a response to the client computer, in the form of static HTML. The browser, like Netscape or Internet Explorer, captures this response and serves it as web page on the client computer. Though the web request-response is here, still the "forms-with-fields-and-buttons" or "PDF-or-word-report"....

With the advent of client-server and web technology, applications went from monolithic spaghetti-code software to 3-layer and later, n-tier applications. Computer application code became structured and modular, functional, distributed (COM, D-COM and remoting), object-oriented to these days service-oriented web service-based applications.

All these days, Microsoft was walking hand-in-hand with other technology vendors, leading in some innovation and following in some. Microsoft was a large part of this entire IT revolution. Microsoft technology coding practices evolved from MS-DOS, Q-BASIC, MS Windows, client-server oriented Visual Basic, Visual C++ and application-friendlier COM components, and ActiveX. With the web era, Microsoft introduced server-side script (VB Script) and client-side (browser) (JavaScript)-based ASP (Active Server Pages). Until this point, the concept of .NET and the .NET framework was not in the picture. HTML pages were static and an attempt was made to introduce dynamic content (for server-side and client-side validations, custom processing, database handling, third-party component handling) with ASP (Active Server Pages)-based systems.

Microsoft thought of a better way with the introduction of .NET-based languages and the .NET framework. Here, Microsoft tried to generalize between the commonality between their various software products like coding languages (VB, .NET, C#, etc.),MS Windows, Microsoft Office, MS SQL Server databases and other products. These common components were introduced as the .NET Framework. The framework had a common language run-time, memory management (Garbage Collector), error handling (EXCEPTIONS), database handling block using ADO.NET and so on....

With Microsoft .NET, the dynamic web content handling became easier and the Microsoft world of web became more programmable with use of reusable and redistributable web components and systems (building blocks). The .NET framework was the core part of all Microsoft products. Data became more accessible. Forms and user interfaces became more friendlier. There is Microsoft Practices and Patterns guidance to the computer world, in designing, development, implementing, unit testing, archiving, etc.; the entire Software Development Life Cycle of the IT universe.

With Microsoft technology ,IT was as simple as the game of building blocks.

Due diligence is always given in IT technology by all IT vendors and their technicians. It is a complete rotating earth in its universe. What improvements you can suggest for the Great Wall of China or the TajMahal? The IT universe is agile.

Computer systems became a network of computers (intranet-internet) and now are social request-response driven. Web systems were request-response and now web services, WCF, Web API and SOA are making it more data driven, like fifth-generation computer systems. Soon, these computer systems will adapt to artificial intelligence technology and natural language interface; machine learning, big data will be common place. The future could be more nature driven.

I have been using the Microsoft .NET Framework to develop and implement application software for around 15 years.

I have not encountered any deployment issues.

I have not encountered any stability issues.

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

Customer service is excellent.

Technical support is excellent.

The ROI is excellent.

Microsoft technology is becoming freeware and cross-platform, embracing all changes and suggestions from the rest of the IT world.