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I always used it without the desktop gui frameworks and didn't have this experience, aside from a couple of abandoned 3rd party tools. One web thing I did has
by smackeyacky 5y ago
I always used it without the desktop gui frameworks and didn't have this experience, aside from a couple of abandoned 3rd party tools. One web thing I did has been chugging, unchanged for 15 years. Overall it has been great for me.
But getting sucked into silverlight would likely have soured me on it.
- hughrr 5y agoAgree on the desktop. The peak of development was when Windows, Visual Studio and .Net framework releases were synchronised and we were targeting Windows Forms. That was almost bliss. I got so much work done. That started in 2002 and ended in about 2010. I built some stuff in C# on Windows CE as well which was interesting too.
- smackeyacky 5y agoCE development must have been interesting. Not sure I ever saw a CE device that had enough room left over for another program. Back when I switched to .NET the future looked like web apps. Can't say I am particularly prescient but of all the tech in .NET, the web stuff thankfully had the longest legs so I'm kinda glad I avoided the slow death spiral of MS's ever changing desktop moods.
- hughrr 5y agoIt was roughly on par with iOS development now strangely enough. But with a light weight windows forms abstraction. We did unholy things on CE which were quite impressive.