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.NET is doing alright in corporate server development, but the deeper problem is that Microsoft let third-party Windows application developers twist in the wind
by gamble 15y ago
.NET is doing alright in corporate server development, but the deeper problem is that Microsoft let third-party Windows application developers twist in the wind for years. The Windows and Office teams tend to keep their UI code and controls private, so that third-party devs have to choose between making due with old libraries and controls, or spinning their own.
- dpark 15y agoWhen does the Windows team keep their controls private? It seems like most of the stuff that makes sense as a public control (e.g. not the Start Menu) gets a public API. The Office team is a different issue. They seem to do a lot of non-standard stuff, and I'm not sure 3rd parties should be trying to follow their lead. The effort a lot of teams spent emulating Office 2003 was obsoleted when 2007 arrived.