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I had to check when this was written. Sadly, it's this year. He says that .Net coders don't answer each other's questions. What's stackoverflow then? He says
by StrawberryFrog 16y ago
I had to check when this was written. Sadly, it's this year.
He says that .Net coders don't answer each other's questions. What's stackoverflow then?
He says that the .Net ecosystem is not as rich, and mentions nUnit, but not the other major open-source testing frameworks - xUnit and mbUnit. Then there's also MS testing, or if you like BDD, there's NSpec and SpecFlow.
I've seen seven or eight open-source .Net IoC containers (including one from Microsoft). By far the weakest of the major ones was Spring.Net, the straight-up port of the popular Java tool. If you don't like EF (Microsoft's ORM), there's NHibernate. Subsonic and others. If you don't like Webforms or asp.Net MVC, theres Fubu and OpenRasta.
Unfortunately a Resharper licence is the price of entry into a lot of IDE goodness. He has that right anyway.
The .Net shop that I work in doesn't choose tools to use in our .Net development efforts based on cost or licence. We choose what makes sense. There is really are few or none "only paid, proprietary software" development shops left. It's all mixed.
- borisk 16y agoSo is an IntelliJ license on the Java side.
- angstrom 16y agoAnd as far as getting into the framework you can disassemble down to the IL if you like which is also well documented. For most people Reflector is good enough.
- pbz 16y agoYou also have a good chunk of the framework's source code available (comments can help quite a bit when reading code).
- astine 16y ago"He says that .Net coders don't answer each other's questions. What's stackoverflow then?" The first response in the comments secition is plug for stack overflow. The author didn't know that it existed.
- rbanffy 16y ago> The author didn't know that it existed. I find it quite telling. Every company I know of that blocks unauthorized websites, IRC channels and so on happens to be .NET (or other flavors of Microsoft) shops.
- pbz 16y agoThey block access even for their developers? Can't be... may as well blindfold them.
- StrawberryFrog 16y agoEvery company I know of that blocks unauthorized websites ... happens to be .NET But the reverse is not true - not every company on .Net blocks websites. I don't actually know of any that block. Blocking digg or facebook is one thing, but If you block Stackoverflow, there's no hope for your development practices.
- rbanffy 16y agoLast time I contracted for a hardware maker, I had to have two separate computers: one box where I had manager role, where I could compile and debug code (with Visual Studio), that sat on a network that had unrestricted access to the net, and another that could access the corporate Exchange server and the internal network. By default, all webites were locked out, but you could request access to what you needed, one site at a time, and the security folks would see what thy could do. It took me a month of signatures to get my second computer, the one with full Internet access.