.NET Reviews & Ratings 2024

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What is .NET?

Microsoft's .Net is an open source, freeware application infrastructure.

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.NET is a solid platform and foundation for my organisation's apps, but I find it a bit boring and dated nowadays

7 out of 10

May 05, 2023

.NET is used as the basis for most applications developed at my organisation. These applications are used across the entire organisation …

Great framework if you have the tools to implement

8 out of 10

July 29, 2022

Incentivized

We use .NET as our main framework for back-end development. We use it to develop APIs and other things related to it. We have many …

.NET does boring business applications and native-ish Windows user interfaces slightly better than the next guy

7 out of 10

August 10, 2021

Incentivized

We currently use .NET for our microservices and cloud initiatives across the enterprise, but we have a multi-decade history with .NET, …

Versatility, Reliability, Performance in an amazing framework!

10 out of 10

August 02, 2021

Incentivized

.Net is our most widely used framework for building applications. Its ability to build applications for the web, desktop and even …

Great coding language for server-side processing

9 out of 10

July 06, 2021

Incentivized

We use .Net for many purposes for both our clients and our own purposes. Generally, we are hosting the .Net applications in AWS or MS …

Dot Net

8 out of 10

May 29, 2021

Incentivized

.Net (Dot Net) is a platform which provides a wide range of methods and interfaces upon which to build quality software. It consists of …

I really do recommend .NET as a framework for anyone looking for a seamless experience

10 out of 10

May 20, 2021

Incentivized

Net is one of the key framework used across the company that offers a range of programming languages starting from C++, C#, VB.Net, SQL …

Robustness, speed, clear code: go with .NET!

9 out of 10

April 29, 2021

Incentivized

.NET is used across my department, it is used for [mission-critical real-time applications], for the manufacturing. It supports other …

.NET, great for many things

9 out of 10

April 29, 2021

Incentivized

We are a consulting firm and use >net to implement solutions for our clients. .NET is flexible and powerful. We can [use] it to implement …

Fast and powerful application development

10 out of 10

April 29, 2021

Incentivized

Most of the applications we have build are web apps using Ruby on Rails, however when the need arises for a desktop application or …

Awesome .NET

9 out of 10

April 29, 2021

Incentivized

The .NET ecosystem is used to fulfill the requirements of modern applications. With [the] release of .NET core, [...] many more innovative …

Enterprise Level Infrastructure

8 out of 10

October 01, 2020

Incentivized

We utilize .NET as the framework of our main application. Our application is what provides the functionality of the core of our business …

.NET is the framework to solve all your problems

9 out of 10

October 01, 2020

Incentivized

We’ve been using .NET for more than 7 years now. It has been able to serve all our programming needs, especially when developing …

The gold standard of development platforms

10 out of 10

September 24, 2020

Incentivized

The Microsoft .Net framework and .Net core are used in conjunction with Azure cloud services. The background of the organization is …

Adapt applications at the speed of business with .NET

10 out of 10

September 23, 2020

Incentivized

Our organization has used .NET extensively for many years. We have created and implemented countless applications for both our internal …

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C# is an excellent language to use, it is well designed and likable
Can be slow to develop with initially, as setting up the required scaffolding takes time

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Professional in Corporate

Research Company, 501-1000 employees

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Microsoft's .Net is an open source, freeware application infrastructure.

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Microsoft's .Net is an open source, freeware application infrastructure.

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The most common users of .NET are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).

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May 05, 2023

.NET is a solid platform and foundation for my organisation's apps, but I find it a bit boring and dated nowadays

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Professional in Corporate

Research Company, 501-1000 employees

Score 7 out of 10

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

.NET is used as the basis for most applications developed at my organisation. These applications are used across the entire organisation and some are publicly available. .NET was originally chosen as my organisation is traditionally a Microsoft shop and it seemed the logical choice. It provides an excellent foundation for our applications and is an extensive framework to use, allowing us to address all business problems with it.

Pros and Cons

Solid foundation
Good support from Microsoft and the community
C# is an excellent language to use, it is well designed and likable
Fairly performant
Integrates well with SQL Server
Integrates well with IIS

Convoluted and complex class hierachy
Feels a bit dated (it comes from the Java era after all)
Microsoft has started ending support for older versions of the framework
Can be slow to develop with initially, as setting up the required scaffolding takes time
Documentation can be a bit hit and miss nowadays
Feels a bit boring and uncool when compared to newer tech

Likelihood to Recommend

.NET is well suited for any general purpose solution to a business problem, though if we are talking strictly the framework version - you have to be more or less tied to Microsoft Windows to run it. If this isn't a problem, then it will be able to address and solve any programming project you have.

Most Important Features

SQL Server integration
IIS integration
Solid foundation / framework
Supported
Fairly performant
C#
MVC
NET

Return on Investment

Allowed for rapid application development in most cases
Reduced costs because it is free to use
Allowed conforming infrastructure as all apps built with it

Alternatives Considered

Node.js and Oracle Java SE

If it was up to me, I'd rather use something like Node.js hands down. Things are simpler, there is no gigantic convoluted class hierarchy to learn like there is with .NET. Also Node is really fast and lightweight. I find .NET these days to be a totally solid product and it certainly has its place - but it seems a bit dated and boring to me now.

Other Software Used

Oracle Java SE, Node.js, Visual Studio IDE, Microsoft Visual Studio Code

Upgrade Process

Yes

I have found upgrading from earlier version of .NET Core, even from version 5, to .NET6 to a completely awful process. Firstly the lifetime of these products seems very short which forces us to be continually upgrading. Secondly, the upgrades tend to break code that was working. For example, LINQ code that did work in 5 now throws these mysterious exceptions like "Nullable object cannot be null" because Microsoft keep changing the way they think it should work (see here: https://github.com/dotnet/efcore/issues/20633). Back in version 2 they had it working one way, then changed it for version 3, 4, and 5 - until version 6 and they have changed it back to the way it was done in version 2. Come on, what about a "don't break it - maintain backwards compatibility" attitude for .NET Core please!

Upgrade Benefits

We were forced to upgrade because Microsoft ends support on the iterations of .NET Core so quickly - so the only benefit is it is a supported version (ostensibly)

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