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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Visual Studio

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AVisual Studio (now in the 2022 edition) is a 64-bit IDE that makes it easier to work with bigger projects and complex workloads, boasting a fluid and responsive experience for users. The IDE features IntelliCode, its automatic code completion tools that understand code context and that can complete up to a whole line at once to drive accurate and confident coding.

    $45

    per month

    Webflow

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AWebflow is a Website Experience Platform for modern marketing teams, used to visually build, manage, and optimize websites that offer both the consumer experience teams expect and enterprise-grade performance and scale.

    $18

    per month

    Pricing
    Visual StudioWebflow
    Editions & Modules
    Professional
    $45.00
    per month
    Enterprise
    $250.00
    per month
    Basic
    $18
    per month
    CMS
    $29
    per month
    Ecommerce - Standard
    $42
    per month
    Business
    $49
    per month
    Ecommerce - Plus
    $84
    per month
    Ecommerce - Advanced
    $235
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Visual StudioWebflow
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Up to a 22% discount available for annual pricing.
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    Community Pulse
    Visual StudioWebflow
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
    No answer on this topic
    Webflow
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    40 Answers
    86%
    Would buy again
    19 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    40 Answers
    90%
    Delivers good value for the price
    19 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    41 Answers
    86%
    Happy with the feature set
    19 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    32 Answers
    84%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    16 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    36 Answers
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    18 Answers
    Features
    Visual StudioWebflow
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Microsoft Visual Studio and Webflow
    Feature
    Microsoft Visual Studio
    -
    Ratings
    Webflow
    7.8
    16 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings7.816 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Microsoft Visual Studio and Webflow
    Feature
    Microsoft Visual Studio
    -
    Ratings
    Webflow
    8.3
    13 Ratings
    6% above category average
    API00 Ratings8.213 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings8.311 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Microsoft Visual Studio and Webflow
    Feature
    Microsoft Visual Studio
    -
    Ratings
    Webflow
    8.1
    19 Ratings
    3% above category average
    WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings8.019 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings8.418 Ratings
    Admin section00 Ratings6.619 Ratings
    Page templates00 Ratings8.118 Ratings
    Library of website themes00 Ratings8.315 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design00 Ratings9.519 Ratings
    Publishing workflow00 Ratings8.518 Ratings
    Form generator00 Ratings7.115 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Microsoft Visual Studio and Webflow
    Feature
    Microsoft Visual Studio
    -
    Ratings
    Webflow
    7.4
    19 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Content taxonomy00 Ratings6.914 Ratings
    SEO support00 Ratings8.416 Ratings
    Bulk management00 Ratings6.416 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions00 Ratings7.417 Ratings
    Community / comment management00 Ratings7.613 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Visual StudioWebflow
    Small Businesses
    IntelliJ IDEA
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Umbraco CMS
    Score7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    PyCharm
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Square Online
    Score7.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    WebStorm
    Score9.6 out of 10
    RWS Tridion Sites
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Visual StudioWebflow
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (118 ratings)
    8.6
    (22 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.2
    (15 ratings)
    8.5
    (14 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.8
    (15 ratings)
    6.5
    (3 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Visual StudioWebflow
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    When working with base C# code for desktop and web projects, then Microsoft Visual Studio is ideal as it provides the libraries and interfaces needed to quickly create, test and deploy solutions. It is when slightly more complex scenarios are required that issues can arise. The built-in integration for things like PowerBI Paginated Reports and dashboards is far from ideal.
    Incentivized
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    Webflow
    Since the purpose in my case is to build a small professional looking site to present project outcomes and other research, I can create custom fields and design experimentations. Webflow builds sites that are super professional, with many amazing templates that don't look cheap. Additionally, I can test responsive layouts. Apart from this, I used 1-2 static pages to illustrate key findings for example what a multilingual site could look like with screenshots without needing CMS in free version, which are all the valuable skills to acquire. Compared to WordPress, Webflow is expensive with limited free features, although it has really cool additional features that will make the site I build stand out.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • I like how the tabs and panels are organized; everything is gathered together so you can find what you're looking for quickly.
    • If you can't find something, there's a thorough search engine that searches all of Visual Studio's features.
    • The Team Foundation Server feature is fantastic since it allows us to easily deploy and roll back changes on the server.
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    Webflow
    • Saves time- because I don't have to do double entry of content.
    • It saves money. I like that it is an all-in-one system, so I don't have to host elsewhere.
    • Flexibility - Webflow provides me with a lot of flexibility in my webpage design, allowing me to adjust pages as needed, depending on the content types.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • Would be great if there was a better way to save and restore open tabs.
    • The built-in test runner can be improved, for example, by adding the ability to save a set of commonly run tests, etc.
    • Better integration for Microsoft SQL server would be great.
    Incentivized
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    Webflow
    • Brand recognition is still behind WordPress, which can make it a challenging sell for clients looking to play it safe in their CMS decision.
    • The CMS is ideal for smaller datasets, but higher content sites introduce some minor challenges.
    • Alignment between designers and developers is key prior to implementation. The flexibility of the platform requires careful planning to avoid over-engineering.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    VS is the best and is required for building Microsoft applications. The quality and usefulness of the product far out-weight the licensing costs associated with it.
    Incentivized
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    Webflow
    It's the perfect balance of GUI and code control
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Microsoft
    I love the overall usability of Microsoft Visual Studio. I’ve been using this IDE for more than 20 years, and I’ve seen it evolve by leaps and bounds. Today, with AI and code-suggestion/completion features, developers no longer need to remember countless libraries, methods, or language syntax, or invest a huge amount of programming effort to complete a project. It truly offers everything a developer needs to program, debug, test, and deploy in a single IDE.
    Incentivized
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    Webflow
    Webflow is very easy for a beginner to get started with and achieve good results, but to achieve an expert level of understanding requires experience and some web development knowledge. HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript knowledge aren't required to use Webflow, but an expert will know BEM class naming patterns, be able to create reusable elements and design systems, and add 3rd party integrations that require custom code.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Webflow
    In my experience, their customer service is an absolute joke, I tried reaching out to them they took forever. I had to keep following up with them as if they never received it in the first place. It’s a new platform, so guidance is needed. Tried the university they offer, in my opinion, it is completely useless, I would just completely move on from this website.
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    Performance
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Webflow
    In my opinion, it is horrible, the rendering takes forever. I have the newest MacBook and the platform will still lag and slow down on me. I’m not a developer, I am a designer which makes it worst because I am using the features they are providing not extra coding features. In my opinion, it is a horrible platform really, stay away.
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    There are many resources available supporting Visual Studio IDE. Microsoft whitepapers, forum posts, and online Visual Studio documentation. There are countless demonstration videos available, as well. If users are having issues, they can call Microsoft Support, but depending on the company's agreement with Microsoft, the number of included support calls will vary from organization to organization. I've found that Microsoft support calls can be hit or miss depending on who you get, but they can usually get you with the right support person for your issue.
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    Webflow
    I haven't had to engage them from a support perspective; however, there is a considerable user community for tips/ideas/troubleshooting and the like. I believe the Pro plan supports additional resources but we didn't find that the cost justified the outcome. Overall the need for support has been relatively minor.
    Incentivized
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    In-Person Training
    Microsoft
    IT is very complicated to understand all the functions that the environment has if you are not familiar with this type of development environments. It is important to select a good in-person training to achieve to understand all the possibilities and the capacity of the application. In this case, you will be able to develop a lot type of different applications.
    Incentivized
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    Webflow
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Microsoft
    If you are not accustomed to develop in this type of development environments it would be complicated to follow all the parts of the course because if the course does not include a great tour with all the concepts to develop you will not have the option to understand all the functions.
    Incentivized
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    Webflow
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    I personally feel Visual Studio IDE has [a] better interface and [is more] user friendly than other IDEs. It has better code maintainability and intellisense. Its inbuilt team foundation server help coders to check on their code then and go. Better nugget package management, quality testing and gives features to extract TRX file as result of testing which includes all the summary of each test case.
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    Webflow
    A lot more design control and easier to create a custom site, and then also to scale that site going forward. There's a lot about WordPress I miss, though, when it comes to managing a blog—user permissions, SEO control, edit HTML version of posts.
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    Scalability
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Webflow
    I feel it doesn’t perform the way it’s supposed to and it doesn’t have any beneficial factors to it. In my opinion, there is no reason to use a platform like this when Wix and Shopify, and WordPress exist. I believe Webflow is a platform that shouldn’t exist and it’s only popular because of the hype it received. I tried it and hate it completely.
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • Using the integration between Visual Studio and our source control service, the cost of re-work and losing code is drastically reduced.
    • Paid versions of Visual Studio enable developers to be so much more productive than hacked-together open source solutions that it's hard to imagine developing in Windows without it.
    • When combined with support subscriptions and the vast array of free online help options available, Visual Studio saves our developers time by keeping them coding and testing, not wasting their time trying to guess their way out of problems or spend endless hours online hoping to find answers.
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    Webflow
    • Webflow vast marketing makes it easy for me to sell the product
    • Webflow has been growing so much in recent year that more and more clients ask for it, and the demand is only increasing.
    • Big companies understand the power of Webflow and big companies tend to have a large budget for their web projects.
    Incentivized
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