On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 3:46 PM, Alan Bourke <alanpbou...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > Hold on hold on hold on. Chinese whispers.
That sounds strange to me. Is that a British-ism? I don't recognize the reference. > This is just ASP.NET and MVC. There were about 5 people developing MVC > apps in VB.Net. Outside of that VB has gone nowhere, C++ has gone > nowhere, there is still a whole .NET ecosystem supporting desktop with > WPF and even Windows Forms. So, "ASP" is the Active Server Pages, so we're talking about runtime scripting with IIS on a web server, right? And VB.NET is not the Visual Basic of your, dead too soon at VB6, but a BASIC-like syntax that was never as popular at the more OOP and terse C-Sharp-Dot-Net, right? It's so hard to keep track, from the outside, of which framework is in or out or which means of presenting forms to the user in a web browser are still popular. There have been so many, and they seem to expire so quickly. So, this "news" is that the next version of Microsoft's web Dot-Net is C-Sharp, only, right? So, for the rest of Visual Studio -- the rich desktop apps, or the applets that run on MSPhone -- this is out of scope for this announcement, right? I got such a kick out of the original article, where the author notes that all the attendees at a web designer conference use macs, and all the attendees at a startup conferce use macs, and that somehow announcing that C-Sharp will now run on macs and linux means that attendees will start showing up with windows machines? Hardly. > > -- > Alan Bourke > alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm > > On Sun, 22 Mar 2015, at 06:17 AM, AndyHC wrote: >> On 21/03/2015 01:50, Stephen Russell wrote: >> > This is no longer the same M$ you have loved to hate. >> > >> > http://stephenwalther.com/archive/2015/02/24/top-10-changes-in-asp-net-5-and-mvc-6 >> > >> > They even dropped VB. Holy shit Batman! >> > >> > >> not only VB, also presumably C++ >> and most significantly of all, they appear to have turned away from >> forms/screens to use the browser as the sole medium for presentation. >> It has been long recognised that the browser (with or without 'the >> internet') is totally unsuited to line-of-business applications (or any >> *personal* computing come to that). >> Having initially missed the boat on comms and computing+comms fusion it >> now seems that ms are throwing out baby, bathwater and bath, and racing >> off into the wide blue yonder! >> [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/cacw6n4s5krbh4n86zgjoyxhvj8bft1s2o0gga8kef2yat_t...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
