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Microsoft .NET platform

byMicrosoft
in Application Platforms (Transitioning to Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms)
4.7

Overview

Product Information on Microsoft .NET platform

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Microsoft .NET platform?

Microsoft .NET platform is a software framework that provides a comprehensive environment for building, deploying, and running applications across desktops, servers, and mobile devices. The software supports multiple programming languages and libraries, enabling developers to create web, desktop, cloud, gaming, and IoT applications. It offers features such as a common runtime, class libraries, security, and interoperability with languages including C#, F#, and Visual Basic. The platform addresses business needs related to scalable application development, code reuse, and integration with various services and data sources, allowing organizations to streamline development processes and enhance application performance within diverse operating environments.

Microsoft .NET platform Pricing

The Microsoft .NET platform software follows a pricing model where developers can access its core framework at no cost through open-source licensing, while advanced features, enterprise tools, and associated cloud services are available via paid subscriptions through Microsoft offerings like Azure, which are charged based on usage and selected service tiers.

Overall experience with Microsoft .NET platform

Business Process Automation & IA (Associate Director)
<50M USD, Banking
FAVORABLE

“Microsoft .NET - One of the best frameworks for developers and a must have in the MS world”

5.0
Jul 10, 2024
Our team mostly works with Windows machines, PowerShell and the Microsoft environment, hence the .NET platform is a great extension for us to have. Microsoft invests a lot into their ecosystem with M365, Graph API and Azure cloud based offerings. We find it very useful and handy to integrate the MS products with .NET and use it for web and desktop app development.
IT Manager
50M - 250M USD, Consumer Goods
CRITICAL

“Great tool for enterprise solution. All in one user interface to dev.”

3.0
Apr 15, 2021
Is a stable producto. You can develop easily. The framework have a lot of functionality for enterprise solutions. Easy to deploy

About Company

Company Description

Updated 11th August 2023

Microsoft enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Microsoft is dedicated to advancing human and organizational achievement. Microsoft Security helps protect people and data against cyberthreats to give peace of mind.

Company Details

Updated 25th March 2024
Company type
Public
Year Founded
1975
Head office location
Redmond, Washington, United States
Number of employees
10000+
Annual Revenue
30B+ USD
Website
https://microsoft.com

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Microsoft .NET platform Likes & Dislikes

Like

large documentation and user base, user community rich ecosystem of both, commercial and open source libraries usage of .NET is partially even possible on Linux nowadays. large framework of libraries with continuous improvements

Like

Upgrading Reliabilty Great Comunity

Like

It has built-in security feature. It promotes interoperability between languages. Cross-platform development. Seamlessly integrates with Windows services and feature's.

Dislike

- good in-person support is hard to find - debugging and error root cause analysis - exception detail description can be minimalistic and hard to analyze which can make root cause analysis difficult

Dislike

Minimum requirements is high Less flexible to rapid and light web deployment than other tools Cost for big teams

Dislike

Steep learning curve. Higher resource consumption. The cost of the license.

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4.7

(171 Ratings)

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  • Business Process Automation & IA (Associate Director)
    <50M USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Microsoft .NET - One of the best frameworks for developers and a must have in the MS world

    5.0
    Jul 10, 2024
    Our team mostly works with Windows machines, PowerShell and the Microsoft environment, hence the .NET platform is a great extension for us to have. Microsoft invests a lot into their ecosystem with M365, Graph API and Azure cloud based offerings. We find it very useful and handy to integrate the MS products with .NET and use it for web and desktop app development.
  • Associate
    10B+ USD
    Finance (non-banking)
    Review Source

    Review of Microsoft .NET platform

    4.0
    Mar 1, 2024
    Microsoft .NET Platform supports multiple languages, which helps us to choose the ones that is best for our needs, such as C#, F#, orVB.NET. Through this we can develop and create applications that runs on various platforms, like Windows, Linux and macOS. It has robust set of class libraries, which simplifies our common tasks and accelerates the development. It supports asynchronous programming, which enhances application responsiveness and performance.
  • SENIOR ENGINEER
    Gov't/PS/Ed
    Education
    Review Source

    Great platform but bloated

    5.0
    Feb 17, 2024
    Overall .Net platform is probably the most complete framework out of the box.
  • SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
    <50M USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Be it a small or big project, .NET has you covered

    5.0
    Jan 26, 2024
    .NET is exceptional, it's robust, performant and so easy to develop with
  • Sr. Software Developer
    1B-10B USD
    Manufacturing
    Review Source

    We can create almost anything with Microsoft .NET platform

    5.0
    Nov 2, 2023
    I have 5.3 years of full-stack experience with the.NET platform, which is an open-source platform for developing web, mobile, and desktop applications that run on any operating system. It has the best Visual Studio IDE, as well as many libraries and APIs for scalability. I have used the C# and VB.net languages and multiple web frameworks. The experience of creating a web application was enjoyable.
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