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On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 7:19 PM, ILT (O) <il.tho...@outlook.com> wrote: > Silverlight “end-of-life” is a widely-felt gripe with developers, from my > reading (eg, just today – Visual Studio Magazine – “*Satya Nadella's > To-Do List*” > [link<http://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2014/02/11/satya-nadellas-to-do-list.aspx>] > – Andrew Brust). There are several offerings of advice to the new CEO, and > to Scott Guthrie as interim head of Enterprise and Cloud at Microsoft. > > > ------------------------------ > > Ian Thomas > Victoria Park, Western Australia > > *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: > ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Greg Keogh > *Sent:* Wednesday, February 12, 2014 2:49 PM > *To:* ozDotNet > *Subject:* Re: Migrating TFS > > > > Greg? Where are you? > > This is your cue. > > > > Ah! What! I'm awake ... I saw Silverlight mentioned as dead and > abandoned. Guess what I've been doing all day today .. expanding a large > Silverlight 5 app. We have no alternative, we've spent years developing the > app and it's in use by some gigantic companies internationally. > > > So is COBOL and FORTRAN > What the hell else can we do? Seriously! Discussion here last year pointed > out that HTML5 is the only alternative to delivering rich apps on the > browser desktop, but it groans under stress and I was warned that it just > can't show attractive interactive charts of the type available with the > ComponentOne SL libraries. > > > Hope that MS are feeling nice and release it to SourceForge. > Also, I have subscribed to MSDN Magazine (MSJ as it was) since 1993 and I > agree that it is generally uninteresting these days because it's mostly > about JavaScript, Stores, Azure, Windows RT and Windows 8 (the latest > groovy stuff you're talking about). I find I flip through new issues and > chuck them aside. I like academic articles, but Petzold's and McCaffrey's > articles are so abstract they're in the twilight zone. > > > MSJ - used to be a good magazine. Matt Pietrek, Paul DiLascia ( "If this code works, it was written by Paul DiLascia. If not, I don't know who wrote it".) were awesome. It's a puff piece now. > My day to day development experience is consistently as infuriating and > unpredictable as ever. Projects won't build, IIS goes haywire with code > 500s, versions clash, dependencies are all over the shop, kits don't work, > samples are simplistic, designers crash, I'm coding XAML UIs by hand, I > have to learn WiX, I have to run VS2013 and VS2012 side by side due to COM > problems, my VS2013 is diseased, and so on. I get up in the morning and the > things that worked the night before are all on the fritz. Sometimes I miss > punch cards. > > > Wix, damnable stuff makes your eyes bleed to read it. > However, I don't want to fuel the jovial atmosphere of impending doom that > pervades this forum ;-) > > > > Greg > -- Meski http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough" - Adam Hills
