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August 21, 2019

.NET Review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with .NET

We are using .NET as the platform for a majority of our Windows-based applications. It has provided us with a highly portable solution and has let our team build several solutions across the enterprise. We've gone through several generations of the software.
  • Backwards compatibility has been great.
  • IDE used are modern and up to date.
  • Documentation has been great.
  • We've spent hours improving and updating based on new features provided as part of the core libraries.
  • Resource usage can be very high.
  • Runtime will require Windows machine unless you use .NET.
  • Dependencies can be complicated.
  • We have built very simple applications to vastly complex on the same toolsets.
  • Every hour we have spent on the product we usually get back in measurable lines of code.
.NET is highly usable due to community and support it gets from Microsoft. It's a great product that has evolved over the last 18 years and keeps on staying modern and relevant as time progresses. As other languages come and goes, it has adopted a lot of the features of these languages.
Most of the support that .NET has comes from the user community rather than Microsoft. Microsoft can support you on the core library-related issues, but for anything outside of that, you will need to go to the user community to get additional support and insights. Luckily there is a large community for support!
We have worked with Java in the past but their library, functions, features out the box are not as helpful as those provided by .NET. Additionally, these features can be harder to implement depending on your business and it's harder to find these skills/resources from the development pool.
If you are looking to start building a development team and need a compiled language, I would recommend .NET as it checks all the boxes from a development platform. Easy to start, great IDE, good documentation and a very large user community to help answer any questions that you may have.