What Do Programmers Like About .NET?

Posted by timothy on Monday September 1, 2003 @03:50PM from the swooning-over-it dept.

prostoalex writes "Software Development Times did a special report asking the .NET developers what they liked about the platform, since it's been 18 months since the .NET introduction by Microsoft. While the positive responses generally acclaimed Microsoft on integrating C++/C# logic development and VB GUI generation into one environment, some complaints are out there as well. From the article: "When Mark Lindley, manager of development services at Cimco, was working with .NET version 1.0 in September 2002, he needed to implement SSL transactions over TCP/IP. 'It took a long time to figure out that this functionality hadn't been implemented in .NET yet,' recalled Lindley." The article also mentions Honeywell Automated Control Systems, a .NET/J2EE software operation, considering moving their operations to .NET platform."

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Re:i like .NET by undef24 · 2003-09-01 16:53 · Score: 4, Informative

The .NET Framework SDK has an awesome Class Reference. I have found that it even has more sample code than javadocs most of the time. This is also available on MSDN.
Comment removed by account_deleted · 2003-09-01 17:47 · Score: 5, Informative

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SSL and TCP/IP by Burb · 2003-09-01 19:57 · Score: 4, Informative

I absolutely concur about the omission of SSL from the supplied .NET classes. I was working on a .NET project last year and found out that SSL wasn't implemnented as standard depressingly late in the day. Partly my fault.
The story has a happy (open source) ending in that we were able to put stunnel in front of our application to provide SSL tunnelling. But it gave me a few panic attacks in the meantime.

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