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re: MS Midwest -- Next Web Road Show

Maggie — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:28:00 GMT

Thanks for posting the references. I'm hoping to work on wpf when i roll of my current project.

I think I'll keep the zune original cause its cool:) sorry

re: PackageThis -- The free, custom MSDN-based help file creation thingie

Mike Henderson — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:52:00 GMT

They just redid all of the internals of MSDN in March -- I wonder if the new site has completely broken PackageThis?

The new site's URL's are completely different in format, so it wouldn't surprise me.

I'll futz around with it and see if I can come up with a solution.

Mike

re: PackageThis -- Internal links dont work

Gideon7 — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:48:00 GMT

PackageThis is a great idea. However it doesn't seem to correctly create links to the downloaded help pages. For example I tried to download the Windows Controls subtree from MSDN - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb773173(VS.85).aspx - into a CHM file. Almost all the links in the downloaded subtree point back to the website, not to the downloaded pages. Clicking on TaskDialog, for example, sends you back to the MSDN website even through the page was downloaded into the CHM.

This makes the utility pretty much useless for offline use.

re: Red5 .NET Compact Framework for Symbian OS -- Silverlight?

Mr Someone — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:18:00 GMT

Microsoft is already going to bring silverlight to Symbian.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1236

re: Microsoft's Zune PC software is written in .NET

Keith Brown — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:53:00 GMT

I remember making these same sort of complaints about VB6. But there were an awful lot of really useful apps built on that "lousy scaling" platform.

There's something to be said for programmer productivity. Computers continue to get faster, and the problems we're solving continue to get more complicated. To me, the tradeoff makes sense. .NET helps me scale to solve more complicated problems.

re: Microsoft's Zune PC software is written in .NET

321 — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:05:00 GMT

You just have to try and see how slower it really is when you attempt to do any GUI or IO work.

People talking of 85% of native performance for manage code are confused at the very least.

Both starup and runtime penalty, is simply put: dreadful.

Compare WPF against WinForms against native GDI, very simple. We are talking of orders of magnitude for each abstraction put forward.

Lousy scaling.

re: Microsoft's Zune PC software is written in .NET

Mike Henderson — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:38:00 GMT

I would argue that for brand new apps at least as many are written in .NET as are written with WinForms, if not more. Adobe, MS Office, and many other apps people pick on as being "not .NET" are legacy mid-90's code that no one has the time or money to rewrite from scratch.

In server-side apps, far more are written in .NET than native code. For example, ASP.NET and/or ADO.NET (http://www.port80software.com/about/press/060105)
-- you'll find many major sites (ebay.com, amazon.com...) use ASP.NET on the server.

As for performance... aside from start-up costs associated with the JIT compilation process, I have yet to see a significant example of .NET apps being "slower". Many Adobe GUIs are written in Java, and I find Java's startup time to be significantly longer than .NET.

At any rate, you're partially correct -- you can write pure native apps that will do certain tasks faster than a .NET equivalent, but that's true of any framework. I can write an app in 100% assembly code and make it run faster than a GDI+ app written in C/C++. You can always go a step lower and more optimized. The point of .NET is to provide a good mixture of accessibility (to devs), compatibility (with various Windows boxes), and portability (be it localization or from a desktop to a handheld).

re: Microsoft's Zune PC software is written in .NET

Gregory A Brewer — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:28:00 GMT

From Dan Fernandez's Blog in November 2004.

http://blogs.msdn.com/danielfe/archive/2004/11/02/251254.aspx

re: Microsoft's Zune PC software is written in .NET

[p[ — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:57:00 GMT

Last two years?

It has been been six to my count, and the number of .NET apps out there is so low in comparison to native code (let alone other platforms or popular apps like adobe etc).

And to say time has not past for .NET to prove itself is an understatement. To say that WPF will change it would be a joke as it incurs penalties far, far greaeter than WinForms/GDI+ both on CPU and RAM.

Repeat after me, does, not, scale.

re: Red5 .NET Compact Framework for Symbian OS -- Silverlight?

Jim Wilson — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:40:00 GMT

Mike;

But when do we get .NET CF for Palm & Blackberry? That's the magic bullet I'm looking for. :-)

-Jim

re: Silverlight development tool installation checklist

Fritz Onion — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:21:00 GMT

Thanks for posting that list Mike - I was just using it today because it was so much better formatted than mine :) For the record, I have no affiliation with Prison Break, nor any desire to have any such affiliations...