> Start reading up on the .NET Framework. i've met some VERY talented M$ > developers and to tell you the truth, they HUMBLE me. these are guys who > work on P50 million software projects. all on .NET.
... I'm still not convinced by .NET, I have a hunch most of these projects will end up being wasted money. .NET Framework is barely deployed on client machines and Microsoft will be coming up with Longhorn's WinFX in a couple of years. I see a lot of painful relearning for these early adopters...
See Joel Spolsky's "How Microsoft Lost the API War":
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html
Microsoft is as much a religion for some people as Linux is... and these are the brainwashed (I know it's brainwashing because after visiting MSDN and viewing their evangelising articles and videos, I can feel the effect on me) ones who take risks on early adoption of technologies like .NET.
XAML, ADO.NET, Web Services, I say phooey for now...
must... struggle... to stay... on the right side of the Force...
> i am currently using Mono to produce and consume .NET based web services, > but when VS Express (free) comes out you can bet i will be avidly > downloading it. creating web services with vi or NEdit (my preferred > editor) and using a command-line compiler gets old real quick.
Are there many local users of Web Services? I'm not very hot on the whole idea of SOAP/Web Services... do they really offer a strategic advantage or is it just that they're being heavily hyped?
> also, if you would bother learning more about Microsoft, you would see > that they have a solution to EVERYTHING.
Orly, now you're /scaring/ me... have you turned over that completely to the Dark Side? :-D
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