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Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

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Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

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Post by SmellyGeekBoy »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #472
brudgers wrote: post #317

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By design, Nadella is getting credit by design for 'overnight changes' many years in the making. Windows 10 reflects the strategic decisions embodied in Vista. Ballmer owned enough stock that along with Gates' backing Microsoft could produce a largely incompatible new version of the Windows OS and Wall Street could like it or lump it. Gates and Ballmer have been divesting Microsoft shares and the new company is behol…

Ballmer wasn't an idiot. Sorry, but yes, the person who said this ( http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-what-steve-ballmer-thou... ) was, in fact, an idiot. He should have had his walking papers from the board of directors by that Friday.

I'm not sure what they're getting at with the "Microsoft is building its own hardware, just like Apple." jab. Microsoft has had a hardware division since 1982!

Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

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Post by jrieken »

jrieken wrote: post #487
highmastdon wrote: post #482

Website seems offline, download links are below. Cached version shows links: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:nfE4FmK... OS X: http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/D/5/0D57186C-834B-4... Windows: http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/D/5/0D57186C-834B-4... Linux: http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/D/5/0D57186C-834B-4...

Sorry guys but there is an issue with our load balancer which is being worked on right now. In the meantime you can find us here: https://vscode-westeu.azurewebsites.net/

Page is back up. Sorry for the fuzz. Happy Coding!

Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

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Post by molmalo »

MCRed wrote: post #349
ryanmarsh wrote: post #285

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Some HN'ers may not recall Microsoft's "sleeping giant awakes" moment with the Internet in the 90's. Speaking of tidal waves, hang on to your surfboards, it's going to be big and fast. http://www.lettersofnote.com/2011/07/internet-tidal-wave.htm...

It is now just a month shy of 20 years since that letter was written. And what did Microsoft do? They bought a browser and gave it away for free, cutting off Netscape at the knees, til the company folded and become the Mozilla Foundation. They poured billions and billions of dollars into online initiatives from the Microsoft Network to Bing, including buying dozens and dozens of companies. None of those were big succ…

> .net which is just a renamed MFC

erm..... no. Sorry, but if you really think that, then you need to go and read something about what really is .net

Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

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Post by 0xFFC »

antonmaju wrote: post #425
WDCDev wrote: post #324

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WPF is, by far, the most pleasant and flexible thick client, windowing system out there. XAML is a bit verbose, but the binding capabilities combined with an open source MVVM framework like Caliburn allow you to build extremely flexible UIs. WPF also abstracts control behavior away from presentation and allows you to easily and quickly extend the base set of controls to do whatever you want to. After building multipl…

Microsoft should have bought Qt when they acquired Nokia. So they have an alternative for cross platform desktop development.

This makes sense , Microsoft does not support C for user space development , and Qt/C++ is good way to push C out from user space development in all platform's .

Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

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Post by prasoon2211 »

mozumder wrote: post #222
davidgerard wrote: post #179

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Linux owns everything else, but Microsoft still own the corporate - and home - desktop. Devs using Linux or Mac are not the majority of users.

I doubt MS owns the home anymore. The number from a few years ago showed college freshmen using Macs by 70%. MS is still corporate-centric in the US, and popular in foreign countries where Apple stores don't exist in large numbers.

> The number from a few years ago showed college freshmen using Macs by 70%.

In the US, perhaps. Where I study, I can count the number of people owning MacBooks on my fingers. They're still way too overpriced/lacking in hardware compared to PCs at the same market rates.

Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

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Post by Maakuth »

antonmaju wrote: post #425
WDCDev wrote: post #324

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WPF is, by far, the most pleasant and flexible thick client, windowing system out there. XAML is a bit verbose, but the binding capabilities combined with an open source MVVM framework like Caliburn allow you to build extremely flexible UIs. WPF also abstracts control behavior away from presentation and allows you to easily and quickly extend the base set of controls to do whatever you want to. After building multipl…

Microsoft should have bought Qt when they acquired Nokia. So they have an alternative for cross platform desktop development.

It wasn't there anymore, Nokia sold it's Qt business to Digia quite soon after the 2011 announcement of Windows Phone strategy.

Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

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Post by stevencl »

harunurhan wrote: post #478

May be I am missing something, but I could not see anything about IntelliSense for Node. I tried exactly what they showed at the conference. http://i.imgur.com/lMQvZa0.png

Did you add the typescript definition file for node and reference it?

Download the node.d.ts file from the DefinitelyTyped repo https://github.com/borisyankov/DefinitelyTyped then add that file to the folder containing your node app.

Then in the file you are using the http object reference the .d.ts file by adding the following to the top of the file:

///

After that you should get intellisense in the file.

Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

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Post by Joe4evr »

stdgy wrote: post #396
notsony wrote: post #345

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If I'm not mistaken those guys appeared on the scene back in 2006/2007. They showed off Pixelmator at WWDC and it went down pretty well but that's still their only product, apart from an iOS version. I guess another way to look at it is this: If you had an idea for a desktop app today, would you decide to write for Mac first using a proprietary language Swift and proprietary SDKs like CoreData or would you pick C# an…

Honest question, not snark: Who are some big C# developers that create major applications consumers (Not enterprises) use everyday? You mentioned the paucity of major OSX/iOS developers, but I'm not sure the case isn't the same for C#/.NET.

Supergiant Games (Bastion and Transistor) and Squad (Kerbal Space Program), to name a couple. And all the StackExchange sites are made on ASP.NET, if you want to count that too.

Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

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Post by brudgers »

justin66 wrote: post #466
brudgers wrote: post #346

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Vista broke with DOS and 16bit code. It elevated security. It required better hardware. It moved x64 toward the mainstream. The architecture of the OS was brought forward a decade. Tick. Windows 7 was a refinement of Vista. Tock. Windows 8 was a new interface and a step toward multi platform, e.g. ARM. Tick. Windows 10 is a full on multiplatform assault. Tock. Running a big company is nontrivial. Microsoft's manageme…

> Vista broke with DOS and 16bit code. This is completely wrong in a couple of ways. Vista popularized 64-bit Windows, and 16-bit WoW (responsible for running 16 bit Windows programs) never made it to 64-bit Windows. This was true for the earlier Windows XP 64-bit, and it has been true for every 64-bit Windows that followed. So there's always been some confusion on this point, but note: 16-bit WoW exists even today o…

Thanks.

Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

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Post by Sir_Substance »

notsony wrote: post #290
ryanmarsh wrote: post #285

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Some HN'ers may not recall Microsoft's "sleeping giant awakes" moment with the Internet in the 90's. Speaking of tidal waves, hang on to your surfboards, it's going to be big and fast. http://www.lettersofnote.com/2011/07/internet-tidal-wave.htm...

Tim Cook's too busy with Jonathan Ive and Angela Ahrendts, turning Apple into a luxury goods company, to even know what just hit him. Slowly but surely the best developers are going to leave the Mac platform leaving only consulting body-shops and corporates on iOS. Developing for the Mac and iOS is miserable. It wasn't always that way, but it is now. Developers* are sick of proprietary stacks, from the language (Swif…

I agree wholeheartedly.

My standpoint is that by developing on someones platform, I am doing them a favor. I'm happy for them to not roll out the red carpet, but there better not be a bouncer checking me at the door, either.

If I have to sign up to used your SDK (unreal, unity), I'll just use something else.

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