TrustRadius Insights for ASP.NET are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Great Documentation: Users have expressed sincere appreciation for the software's exceptional documentation. They find it comprehensive and user-friendly, catering to both novices and experienced users. The availability of quick access to high-quality information has been highlighted as a significant asset by many reviewers.
Efficient Performance: Reviewers have noted with satisfaction that the software surpasses their performance expectations. Its ability to operate faster than anticipated while consuming minimal memory has resulted in tangible cost savings for users who switched from Python.
Customizable Functionality: Users highly value the customizable library and extensive functionality offered by the software. This flexibility proves especially beneficial in effortlessly establishing connections with databases and generating detailed reports, contributing significantly to its appeal among users.
We used ASP.NET to design our product which handles the energy-related functionality. In same product, we almost created 5000 displays that are interrelated and handle the end-to-end processes. we had created multiple displays which handle reporting, entry pages, summary pages, etc. Product which we created using ASP is in the market nowadays and solving energy-related problems .
Pros
Customizable library and vast functionality
Easily connect with database
We can generate reports out of it.
Cons
Performance could be better
Some time felt slowness while heavy work processing
Likelihood to Recommend
We used ASP.NET to build a platform in which we handled multiple problems like Data entry, Summary pages, reporting displays, and build complex logic for profit and loss statements. It works well while using the Microsoft IDE and its intelligence is flawless. I would recommend it works well while interacting with C# and UI
I use ASP.NET with the SAP Business One SDK to develop financial web reports from the HANA database. The integration of ASP.NET with the SAP B1 SDK is excellent. It is possible to run complex queries and store the results in a record set variable to present them on the HTML page. Also, I use ASP.net to test and development of BOTS using Microsoft Power Automate.
Pros
Database integration for queries and inserts.
Excellent for script language for HTML.
Razor pages in Visual Studio 2022/.NET is the positive next step of web development.
Cons
Cases of study to show the excellent performance of ASP.NET combined with Razor.
Better integration with Amazon RDS database.
Easier method to parse the JSON results from webservice's.
Likelihood to Recommend
ASP.NET is well suited to work with the Microsoft SQL Server flavors database. It has an excellent interface library with the database to get the results and store them in a variable. From here, you can display the results using script language to the HTML web page. Probably ASP.NET is not appropriate to do Android development for offline applications. These applications can keep working without a connection to the internet.
ASP.NET has come a long way since 2010 when I started my career in web development. It was a cumbersome and slow technology that was only used by "Microsoft shops" that has transformed into an easy-to-use and open source (!) technology that is also one of the fastest web app hosts in the world. The .NET Core team has really made ASP.NET shine.
We use it to build anything from small internally-used applications to large web applications that scale to thousands and thousands of users.
Pros
Build web applications with ease.
Get up and running in minutes.
Cons
Make it easier to vote on features that we want to see implemented.
Likelihood to Recommend
If you're building a REST API or a Websocket application, ASP.NET is a must-use.
The only reason we would prefer using e.g. NodeJS over ASP.NET is when we need to use a package that doesn't have a good alternative in the .NET ecosystem, which is rare. On such example is pdfkit, which we use to render PDF receipts.
ASP.NET is considered to be the best framework. We typically use it across all of our web projects and in our organization because it is a programming language that allows us to create web-based sites or applications. ASP.NET creates websites based on CSS, HTML5, and JavaScript that are smooth, fast, and scale for many users. It is a well-established web platform that can build enterprise-class server-based applications for Windows. ASP.NET's MVC is the framework of choice for most of the websites we build and integrate it with our projects with various systems. In terms of web page development, ASP.NET is the fastest. Instead of sending a request to the server every time, pages are safer and quicker. We need a few lines of code because so many things can be dragged and dropped. Because of its developer friendliness and versatility, ASP.NET is a popular choice.
Pros
It's easy to install and configure, and it supports dependency injection.
Code configuration is simple, and performance measures are excellent.
It is cross-platform, expandable, and customizable.
Cons
Making web forms obsolete was a mistake; instead, creating modern web forms that use the drag and drop UI is something we have come to expect from ASP.NET.
It takes a long time for the NET collection to start up when running under IIS for some reason.
Likelihood to Recommend
We use ASP.NET, one of our primary programming languages, on every one of our web development projects. ASP.NET allows us to do everything, including front-end programming and business logic. It supports a variety of programming languages, including C-sharp. VB.NET, F.sharp, and others. Also, it integrates with third-party applications. An all-in-one, we can link our application to a database as a case in point. Individual developers attempting to create an app should avoid it if possible. Compared to other web servers, ASP.NET is more resource-intensive and expensive for small businesses. Constant framework updates and tool compatibility were not features that appealed to me.
ASP.NET is used for virtually every system developed and in use at my organisation, specifically MVC and webforms. It is used across the entire organisation for internal and external applications. It addresses the need to rapidly develop web-based systems to a pre-defined programming model that is proven to work (such as MVC) and have those systems be maintainable. It was a huge step forward, especially when ASP.NET MVC was released. However, when I compare it to even more modern technology, such as Express for NodeJS - it just gets too complicated too quickly. Express manages to accomplish the exact same functionality but in a very simple and succinct way. ASP.NET, as with all .NET based development, tends to get unnecessarily complicated quickly.
Pros
Allows for rapid application development
A very solid and well-defined foundation and programming model
Fairly performant
Templating with razor is excellent
MVC was a huge step forward in its day
Cons
WebForms is absolutely awful (in my opinion it is an abomination), it tries to hide the nature of the web from the programmer to make things easier, but it actually makes it much much worse and much more complicated than if it hadn't hidden it.
In my experience it can get unnecessarily complicated quickly - as you move towards the boundaries of what ASP.NET can do, as you will on any fairly complicated project, you realise you suddenly have to hook in to undocumented or obtusely documented functionality, and you will need to put in little bits of code you found on stack trace but you aren't sure why - because Microsoft tried to hide something from the programmer but you end up having to customise it anyway. This builds and builds.
NET can be really really slow when running under IIS, for some reason the app pool is constantly shutdown due to idle, but when the next person hits a page - it takes, in computational terms, so long for the pool to start up - causing embarrassing delays.
It is somewhat boring now and doesn't really stand up to modern simple alternatives, like Express on NodeJS.
Likelihood to Recommend
It is well suited to rapid web-based application development, the programming model (if we are talking about MVC) is solid and provides an excellent foundation. Though I think in modern terms there are better products out there - to me, it is now rather lacklustre and boring (but that might be just because I have been using it for so long). If it was up to me I wouldn't use it anymore - but in terms of working within an organisation - I don't really get a choice.
VU
Verified User
Professional in Corporate (Research company, 501-1000 employees)
ASP.NET is used throughout the upper levels of our Information Technology group. Lower levels and the rest of the company remains limited to VBA via Excel, Access, etc. due to security restrictions set by the company. ASP.NET addresses the more complex business problems, especially web integration, which cannot be addressed with the simpler tools. We also use ASP.NET to allow various back-end databases (Oracle, SQL, etc.) to communicate to a main program or even mobile devices.
Pros
Ease of use with drag and drop functionality; makes the learning curve less steep as new users are already familiar with this paradigm.
Powerful .Net Framework libraries
Control panel to manage and control the building of web applications
Code-behind can be in C# or VB.NET
Cons
It works very well other Microsoft tools but could have better integration with other platforms
Fewer open-source projects to use as examples, templates, and code-snippets
Can be cost-prohibitive for smaller companies or if your business requirements demand 3rd party (or additional) libraries, tools, etc.
Likelihood to Recommend
ASP.NET is definitely well-suited for Enterprise applications as it was designed for just such a purpose. It has capabilities to produce cross-platform solutions. The learning curve when switching can be intimidating, but as long as your team has a decent knowledge of general web development, then it should not be too difficult to make the transition. You will be satisfied in the end.
VU
Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology (Information Technology and Services company, 51-200 employees)
