Compare ExpressionEngine and Microsoft Visual Studio - Mar 2022

Shlomi Lavi

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Bottom Line: Which is Better - ExpressionEngine or Microsoft Visual Studio?

Microsoft Visual Studio is more expensive to implement (TCO) than ExpressionEngine, and Microsoft Visual Studio is rated higher (75/100) than ExpressionEngine (60/100). Both tools offer the same amount of features.

Looking for the right Content Management solution for your business? Buyers are primarily concerned about the real total cost of implementation (TCO), the full list of features, vendor reliability, user reviews, and the pros and cons. In this article we compare between the two software products:

EllisLab Vs. Microsoft

EllisLab: We founded EllisLab in 2002 with the launch of a blogging application called pMachine Pro. A few years later we took everything we had learned from that experience and built ExpressionEngine, a powerful Content Delivery Platform, and CodeIgniter, an agile, open-source framework. Using these tools, web professionals can build nearly any type of dyna...

Microsoft: Microsoft Corporation is an American corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses and supports a wide range of products and services related to computing. The company was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975. Microsoft is the world's largest software maker measured by revenues.

Who is more expensive? ExpressionEngine or Microsoft Visual Studio?

The real total cost of ownership (TCO) of Content Management software includes the software license, subscription fees, software training, customizations, hardware (if needed), maintenance and support and other related services. When calculating the TCO, it's important to add all of these ”hidden costs” as well. We prepared a TCO (Total Cost) calculator for ExpressionEngine and Microsoft Visual Studio.

ExpressionEngine price starts at $299 per license , On a scale between 1 to 10 ExpressionEngine is rated 2, which is much lower than the average cost of Content Management software. Microsoft Visual Studio price starts at $45 per month , When comparing Microsoft Visual Studio to its competitors, the software is rated 4 - lower than the average Content Management software cost.

Bottom line: Microsoft Visual Studio is more expensive than ExpressionEngine.

Which software includes more/better features?

We've compared ExpressionEngine Vs. Microsoft Visual Studio based on some of the most important and required Content Management features.

ExpressionEngine: Data Import/Export, Basic Reports, Online Customer Support.

Microsoft Visual Studio: Data Import/Export, Basic Reports, Online Customer Support.

Target customer size

Customers of the software include businesses of all sizes and types. Microsoft Visual Studio is perfect for companies that are operating and developing highly scalable Windows software services and applications.