ASP.NET Zero Reviews

ASP.NET is the best technology for building web applications

Comments: My first professional web application I built, I used asp.net framework to develop it. My experience was somehow out of this world. It was my first time building a web application using ASP.NET, I had to learn from the beginning how the framework works, and once I figured out how it works, I fell in love with it; 2 applications after the first one was developed using it.

Pros:

I like the fact that it is free I like the fact that it very secure You can build web applications with ease For Microsoft developers, it makes it easy to develop web applications running on Microsoft platform

Cons:

I don't like the fact that it is not a very easy technology to use It is not easy to learn like PHP

System Architect

Comments: Great product for the money! Even if you don't use the RAD tools, and just use it as a boilerplate on steroids it shines. When building an application, it includes a lot of things people leave out as they are nice to haves, but this product includes a majority of these things out of the box!

Pros:

When working with the code you soon notice the code is verry verbose and may seem like over kill at times. But the more you look into it you realize it is done just for best practice. This is where ASPNETZERO shines! It is basically a combination of a lot of open-source software that has been curated and assembled to work together properly. This is something most software shops can do and do well. That being said it still takes time & research to do it right, and all resources could be spent for a single app. I'm not sure how many customers ASPNETZERO has, but from the scope of features in the product, the quality of the code, and the amount of documentation available; they have been around the block. I have been using it for three years now and have used it for almost all my new application since.

Cons:

The generator is nice and easy to use, but to get the most out of it you need to be willing to put in the effort to learn how to modify the generation templates. This is the one place that I feel is more like a black box, there is not a lot of documentation on this, and it takes a little skill, but the payoff is huge that being said.

Fraudulent

Comments: Very bad do not complete with your license, because you do not have the right to update your project to the last version you were entitled to.

Pros:

The best thing really is the back-end and the ability to self-generate code.

Cons:

that you are entitled for a year to the updated versions, but the year is over and you can no longer download your latest version to which you were entitled so they block you and in the end it is a theft.

Great solution to develop quality software easily

Comments: We're pleased to have chosen ASP.NET Zero to implement or Event Management SaaS, all the features that come out of the box makes a high quality product very easily

Pros:

How many features come out of the box to quickly develop a reliable, scalable and easy to maintain solution.

Cons:

It might have a hard learning curve for beginners to understand all the features that come out of the box and how to customize them. But once you master it, it becomes extremely powerful.

ASP.NET Zero InsureTech

Comments: Support is pretty good - usually get a response with 3 working days
We have a fairly common architecture (AWS / ELB / ECS / Docker) so most issues we come across are not with ASP.NET Zero as such and have been experienced and resolved already

Pros:

Modular design Separation of functions / services Tech stack integrates easily into our AWS infrastructure environment

Cons:

Client use of Metronic theme - would love to see alternatives such as Material

ASP.Net in a Transport Solution

Comments: Secure. No hassles. The learning curve was a bit steep, but it paid off.

Pros:

Very quick setup. Loads of off the shelf features. Data and row level security. Password reset, expiry and MFA. Developer Tools. SECURITY!

Cons:

The Metronic Themes are not great, and there is not a lot of research / guidance available. Default themes waste a lot of real estate on wide headers and margins.

Helped get our project going

Comments: Very good. Their response to questions has always been great. Documentation is well written.

Pros:

Getting most of the core functionality out of the way helped our one lone developer get started on our needs and not have to build out a lot of those core components.

Cons:

Annual license renewals feels a bit expensive. Would rather one larger cost up front and then renewals for updates are more moderate.

Great way to get going with multi-tenant databases

Comments: Really quick and easy to get a SaaS ready application up and going.

Pros:

Ability to create isolated multi-tenant databases and really good support for creating application editions with any combination of features for our SaaS solution.

Cons:

Doesn’t align with our frontend tech-stack which uses React rather than Angular.

The solution

Pros:

I appreciate the continuous update of the framework

Cons:

I think that it could be faster to retrieve data from the database in a query

A very interesting framework

Comments: Has always been exceptional. It does a lot of heavy lifting considering what I think is the most important aspects of this framework (multi-tenance, authentication & authorisation) out of the box.

Pros:

I have used it for different application. The most important aspect for me has always been the multi-tenancy ability, authentication and authorisation as well as the flexibility on tech stack to use. I have used it with asp.net core, mvc and javascript as well as angular on asp.net core.

Cons:

Price of course. Maybe something can be done in terms of licensing especially for small companies like ours. Everything is expensive with us. We work with very tight budgets.

The Perfect Foundation for a SaaS platform

Comments: I cannot stress enough how much I like this product and would absolutely use this platform in the future. I have even recommended to our development partner that they should look to implement ASP.NET Zero for more of their clients because of how good a platform it is.

Pros:

We estimated that the existing out of the box features saved us well over 6 months of development time because they were already well implemented. Multi-Tenancy, the concept of Features, and role-based security were all key to our success.

Cons:

We found working with the Metronic themes the most problematic, but that is relative since nothing was really terribly difficult. Upgrading to new versions were just more time consuming because of the Metronic themes.

Saving my time to develop features

Pros:

For me, choosing Zero is because it has implemented many underlying applications, such as logs, login, signup, subscription, etc., which can save us development time.

Cons:

There is no React version. In my opinion, React is currently more popular than Angular.

One developer viewpoint

Pros:

The biggest feature for us is the role/permissions. We needed something that was easy to stand up that had that all built in already.

Cons:

I really wish the product were a little easier to deploy functional components. After a while you realize the API does way too much for just one solution.

Perfect starting point

Pros:

It saves a lot of time in development covering basic features of an enterprise application.

Cons:

Obviously it takes some time to understand and follow all the patterns and coding style.

ZERO Expert lover

Pros:

Power Tools and the great integration with Swagger in addition to clear separated layers and pattern

Cons:

Realtime notification is not the best also the mobile app still depends on Xamrain even alot of the cross technologies are available better than Xamrain

It was a great experience using ASP.Net Zero

Pros:

I haven't found a solution in the market that helps me kickstart my project the way ASP.net Zero did, it boosted our productivity 200%, is well designed, and is well documented with a very little learning curve.

Cons:

To be honest we found ASP.NET Zero much more helpful than other products, so it's not fair to say which i haven't found.

Product evaluation

Pros:

SOLID Architecture and Full Source Code are Included so I can modify it

Cons:

Converting Create and Edit Modal to Page (Angular)

ASP.NET for Desktop browser insurance app

Comments: The system allows sellers of building insurance to instantly calculate the annual premium based on value, age, etc. of the building.The ready-to-use client => controller => service => DB flow with all the surrounding authentication etc. supported the focus on application and web design. Many of the security and process flow features are already implemented.

Pros:

The product can be downloaded, installed, configured and is is ready to log in in under 1h. The steps to do this are clearly described in the manual. All you need is an operating system (Windows server in our case) and a DB plus development environment.The functionality saves the tremendous effort for developing an empty framework of DB access, user management, browser page design etc. Many features are available and there are regular update with more.The integration of the client design system is always soon after the latest releases which allows to update the own application with latest features.The stability / robustness is outstanding. Yet to experience the first failure after 5 years of the application running an an environment with several hundreds of users creating millions of DB records.Extending the developed app or writing plugins is straight-forward. This is due to the well-organized architecture of the overall system.

Cons:

ASP.NET is not for beginners. What is a beginner and what a pro? This is individual judgement. I found it difficult to take advantage of all the features and sometimes to find out where to implement or change what.This is partly due to my own level (mid experienced but not high), partly due to the sheer complexity and many aspects but also due to the fact that the code has hardly any comments. Sometimes it might make sense to have find some more key features documented in the code.

A clean solution which saves time

Pros:

ASP.NET Zero contains the common features we need to create a SaaS solution. You don't need to develop common SaaS features

Cons:

It will be good if ASP.NET Zero supports Angular material

The baseline for every SaaS project

Comments: ASP.NET Zero is the baseline of our SaaS offer, it help us to keep focused on our core technology and solves everything else.

Pros:

It implements all the features for multi tenancy SaaS, and it keeps everything current.

Cons:

Audit database becomes slow with multiple tenants over time.

ASP.NET Zero allowed our start-up to quickly achieve production readiness

Comments: Our experience with the ASP.NET Zero product, Volosoft organisation, and the community, to be overwhelmingly positive.I have, and would continue to, recommend this product to anyway with a need to quickly build a massively functional enterprise application, without sacrificing any of the best practices expected to be found in production-grade software.

Pros:

Most of the infrastructural plumbing has been considered by the architects of ASP.NET Zero, and arranged within the application code-base in a sensible, clean and intuitive fashion. This removes one of the largest hurdles to application development - upskilling new team members to follow a homogenous set of patterns and practices.

Cons:

Our greatest complaint - which I do see shared from others, is the difficulty in upgrading ASP.NET Zero. We estimate for our product, a 100-150 man hour cost to performing this upgrade - and parallel branches would be best avoided during this time, due to the scale of churn.Given it's nature - source-code rather than just a binary dependency - it's very easy to "mix" our product-specific changes into the ASP.NET Zero authored code.While ASP.NET Zero does support modularisation, which we expect would minimise this - there are some things that just are not possible - or are orders of magnitude more difficult to do in a modular manner.I would love to see a greater adoption of the Open-closed Principle and training documentation/best practices to better mitigate this weakness.

Super flexible and easy to use .Net platform to build highly advanced products

Comments: Excellent. We use it for our core SaaS platform and it saved us well over 12 months of development if we had to build many of our must have required features from scratch.

Pros:

It is feature rich and covers all the must haves for a SaaS product, including authentication, authorisation, multi tenancy, auditing, logging and mobile solutions. Uses the latest versions of all technologies and keeps themselves up to date. Best practice templates for the front end as well and easy to extend and expand on where you want to alter or enhance the base platform. Full source code provided and responsive support team if you notice something that doesn't look quite right.

Cons:

The Metronic UI (in the Angular based solution) takes some getting used to and some of the components aren't the best. We enhanced it however by using Syncfusion components and have a great front end solution.

A jump start for your next application

Pros:

Recurring work does not have to be implemented from scratch every time.The application framework offers a good compromise between ready-made features and customization options. Integration points are abundant and well documented.

Cons:

After an application is developed using ASP.NET Zero, it is difficult to upgrade it to new versions. This is due to the high level of customization.

Love this software

Comments: I really enjoy working with ASP.NET Zero as a base for all our webapplications.

Pros:

What i needed was al well -structured head-start for my applications, so i could focus on functionality

Cons:

Could use some more starters-kits like CMS, Blog

Review for ASP.Net

Comments: Overall experience is great in asp.net as we get to create great web pages using Microsoft framework and architecture.

Pros:

Asp.net is an open source architecture and it offers cross platform support. Which makes our job very easy and reduces time to do the job.

Cons:

Cost for sure. Asp.net is very highly priced. With Asp.net we get locked in Microsoft architecture. We have to only use visual basic syntaxes in this.