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What do you like best about .NET?

You can use any language while building cross-platform apps, lighting fast and quickly, with security and reliability of quality built apps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about .NET?

Due to being tightly defined framework keeping in the mind only windows eco system, its performance sometimes have subpar standard than its peers and other machine level languages code and binaries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is .NET solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using .NET because it has been good to us, and our senior engineers have experience with it, so we did not have to spend too much time in the learning curve and we went along with it and due to rapid development in C# for our mobile app suite, it has been going good for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Develop native iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows apps in C#

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Develop native iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows apps in C#


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Every company has a mission. What's ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters. Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately

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What do you like best about .NET?

I am dedicated to Electronic Engineering, Developing and Implementing Solutions for IoT, providing Advice and Support to Installed Systems and Repairing or Updating Systems in Production, all the products mentioned and some that I use are missing, they help to facilitate my Tasks.- Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about .NET?

In all the Years of Using this .NET Platform It Evolved beyond my small annoyances.- Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is .NET solving and how is that benefiting you?

It Allows Me to Manufacture Simple and Robust Applications to Provide Solutions to my Clients.- Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about .NET?

I greatly admire how we techies got a handful of tools to build a wide range of cross-platform applications with high performance, scalability, and resourceful framework libraries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about .NET?

For me, till now it's a powerful tool that it's rapidly and strongly evolving, and till the tool reaches a high maturity level only we have to take care of keeping the applications up to date with the latest security patches and keeping the applications simple in design to avoid memory leaks and keep in connection with the highly active community if you faced and problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is .NET solving and how is that benefiting you?

The first thing was the portability that gave the project developers team the flexibility to work on Windows, Linux, and Mac. Also the comprehensive libraries available to build complex applications with high performance that increased productivity, improved performance, and enhanced built-in security features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about .NET?

My Great admiration regarding .NET is that it is the best choice for creating cross-platforms and apps, is open source with actual reference data, and is perfectly integrated with the Microsoft ecosystem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about .NET?

My overall experience is so convenient. My only complaint that .NET will be more helpful if we can use it on different operating systems like Linux OS as well as MacOS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is .NET solving and how is that benefiting you?

.NET has been beneficial for development lately. It is quite an evolution phase for developers that you can build an application for various interfaces. Moreover, I didn't imagine how easily I could integrate with the SQL database servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about .NET?

After surfing deeper and deeper, i admire how it is easy in setup and isntallation, code sharing, powerfull GUI, visual studio integration and strong community and documentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about .NET?

So far till now i didn't catch up a cons. My only point that from my point of view, it shouldn't considered a big deal but I believe in the long run xamarin forms should support deployment for app store more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is .NET solving and how is that benefiting you?

Problems that is hard to deploy in ios but I believe the benefits is its a cross platform it support ios and android ana its easy technolgy and have a lor of libaries Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about .NET?

First thing it'sCross platform and also we use in backaend c# which is commen used in Egypt and help us to learn fast abount Xamarin forms and also frontend is easy to learn Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about .NET?

I dislike that deployment are so slow for ios which in android is so fast I don't know why but in android we can deploy less than a day and I wish libraries tob ne more in the future Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is .NET solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cross platform is a big step for xamrin which is support ios and android and web also i beleive that this texhnology is the best so far any user to join the following apps Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about .NET?

i like Xamarin how it is so flexible, and the GUI interface is so smooth and easy to toggle and navigate, as well as I cannot feel the consumption of the CPU and memory when using it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about .NET?

Xamarin is a powerful platform, but it is a bit expensive, so sometimes I thought other platforms could replace it. Moreover, sometimes it takes much time while compiling Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is .NET solving and how is that benefiting you?

What benefits Xamarin is the cross-platform solution that I can develop my application and publish it in multiple operating systems as well as the shareable code is widely valuable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about .NET?

It is uses a shared code features to use the code on all platforms like android iOS and windows

Performance is close to native

Native user experience

Good hardware support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about .NET?

Limited acces to open source libraries

High cost for professional and enterprise use

Small community

Larger app size as compared to other

Compatibility issues with third party libraries Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is .NET solving and how is that benefiting you?

Building apps on cross platform with native like user experience and it comes with comple development ecosystem.

It performance is also close to native

Complete Ui customisation is possible for each platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about .NET?

Is very helpful platform to create the application for Android and iOS and integrit them together that it will help to reduce time to the developer that it will be helpful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about .NET?

Deployment in iOS is very slow process but in android I can deploy faster also I wish there is more libraries for xamrian in visual studio code xe in Mac that I will be helpful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is .NET solving and how is that benefiting you?

Help us to how use the platform and how to integrate the system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

praveen k.
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What do you like best about .NET?

Provides a single code base to handle multiple platforms, xamarin allows us to use native methods and callbacks of media with a single code, and C# experts can quickly develop mobile applications using xamarin Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about .NET?

Building time is a bit more, and documentation needs to be improved with examples for native callbacks of platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is .NET solving and how is that benefiting you?

Helped to develop Android and ios mobile apps using a single code base and faster development with less maintenance. Rich set of methods to achieve the business logic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rajath S.
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What do you like best about .NET?

Code sharing, native performance , integration with existing code large community Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about .NET?

Performance , limited access to platform specific, file size and app size Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is .NET solving and how is that benefiting you?

Code sharing, native like applications, cost saving Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.