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C# and .NET get a bad rap for being created by Microsoft. But one thing that can't be ignored is how polished their development tools are. I absolutely love coding in Visual Studio.
If you want more info about the extension let us know. There's alot of cool contextual and semantic pieces in there that makes it a smarter search
PTVS: http://pytools.codeplex.com NTVS: http://nodejstools.codeplex.com
disclaimer: msft employee.
C# and .NET get a bad rap for being created by Microsoft. But one thing that can't be ignored is how polished their development tools are. I absolutely love coding in Visual Studio.
It pains me if I am honest. Our CMS is built on .NET and it's like an uphill battle selling it as it's on IIS and it's .NET. I have played around with the idea of reworking it into an open source language and open source database but I would miss Visual Studio and the language a lot. I don't get all the hate?
Fred Wilson posted on this very topic this morning. http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2014/02/inspired-by-github.html
From his post:
"I was at a hackathon up at Columbia University last weekend and one of the hacks was a development environment that automatically queried StackOverflow and GitHub as you are writing code so that you always have in front of you the answers to the questions you are most likely to ask. The developer who did the hack introduced it by saying something like "programming these days is more about searching than anything else". That reflects how collaborative the sharing of knowledge has become in the world of software development as a result of these cloud based tools for developers."
If you want more info about the extension let us know. There's alot of cool contextual and semantic pieces in there that makes it a smarter search
Have you considered perhaps including more data sources ? I'd imagine for example a public code repository like Github or Codeplex will extend the range of possible "How Do I" questions that can be answered.
On an unrelated note, I have almost always been disappointed by the search-quality of Github. I know they have a lot of public code but they don't do a good job of surfacing relevant code results. Imagine for example, how cool it will be being able to type into Github, "How to compute MD5, C++" and seeing the relevant code.
Actually, thinking about it, there is nothing preventing Microsoft Research from taking this tech, and turning it into a natural language web code search service. Now that would be awesome !
C# and .NET get a bad rap for being created by Microsoft. But one thing that can't be ignored is how polished their development tools are. I absolutely love coding in Visual Studio.
But F# is so much better that I can't think of a single reason for choosing C# over it.
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It pains me if I am honest. Our CMS is built on .NET and it's like an uphill battle selling it as it's on IIS and it's .NET. I have played around with the idea of reworking it into an open source language and open source database but I would miss Visual Studio and the language a lot. I don't get all the hate?
I'd guess it's because a lot of techies remember how 10 years ago MS exploited their monopoly to force their products onto the entire world? fortunately those days are over and they've become mostly irrelevant, but everyone knows that given half a chance they'd do it again...
C# and .NET get a bad rap for being created by Microsoft. But one thing that can't be ignored is how polished their development tools are. I absolutely love coding in Visual Studio.
It pains me if I am honest. Our CMS is built on .NET and it's like an uphill battle selling it as it's on IIS and it's .NET. I have played around with the idea of reworking it into an open source language and open source database but I would miss Visual Studio and the language a lot. I don't get all the hate?
Microsoft makes most of its money with its business products, so it's not cheap. Some companies just simply don't want to pay the Microsoft premium.
If for nothing else - it shows MSFT's commitment to the language, to the platform and to the framework.
No, it shows MSFT's commitment to future revenue and profit. If they were really committed to the language, they would open-source it.
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I'd guess it's because a lot of techies remember how 10 years ago MS exploited their monopoly to force their products onto the entire world? fortunately those days are over and they've become mostly irrelevant, but everyone knows that given half a chance they'd do it again...
I was a kid back then so I don't know the details of the story. Can you give me a primer?