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I will teach my kids to do same thing in ten ways.
Knowing different roads to your destination makes you "the fast Guy".
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My answer is that you are fine.
First, they are open sourcing it so it runs on Linux (Think Cloud Hosting).
Second, they have put a lot into it.
But buyer beware. The one thing I hated about MSFT was their incessant disposing and breaking of old technology. A few years ago, I had to upgrade a Delphi 5 application -> Delphi XE2. The files imported, I had to install a couple of components. And recompiled. No issues.
In the MSFT world, we had a C++ library. It was 32 Bit. It would not compile to 16 bit, because MSFT refused to implement some of the same language features, they wanted to discourage 16 bit usage. And it keeps happening. I tried to open a Visual Studio project from 10 years ago. Yeah Right, the new VS would not touch it!
Some of our software has been around since the 1980s. And when it is ultra-specialized, it will stay around. Our fallback is that nowadays we create a VM capable of of recompiling everything, and park it for the future. But there is plenty of VB6 code that you are not going to be able to recompile in any recent version of VS, and get this. The old version of VS has BLOCKS to prevent it from being installed in NEWER OSes. Pure Joy!
So, I think if you write good code you are safe. But REALLY consider how you will support all the stuff you do if it lives a lot longer than you expected!
And understand that WHATEVER technology you use, MSFT will likely throw away and push you into newer technology (We have some WinCE code that will have to be completely rewritten if they change the hardware)
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I have been in your shoes, and I went php cause for one, most if not 90% of hosting co. are linux only. They are cheaper than asp.net to host. Most open source cms are php based. The web is everything but asp.net. If you want to develop solution for the big corp. then ok, they have the money to host thir site on their promises.
I have been programming MS (QBasic, VB and all) for 15 years, and now php for 10. No regrets.
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I don't really have much to add to what's already been said, except to say that at 58 years old, I've been asking myself what I ought to be learning since I first started earning my daily bread as an embedded programmer in 1987.
I've endured (yes, endured is completely apt) many technological paradigm revolutions in that time; that includes changes to tools and methodologies.
I've resisted the temptation to get off the treadmill and go into management because I still love what I do.
Today I am pretty much a Jack-of-all-trades. On any given day I can move from Java using Eclipse and NetBeans, to C++, C#, and ASP.NET (C#) in Visual Studio, to Pascal in Delphi, to JSP, SOAP, BIRT, COM objects... the list is endless it seems.
I've paid a price. The expression, "Jack-of-all-trades, master of none" is, again, completely apt. I feel at times like I just know enough to be dangerous - though, thankfully, I've never killed anyone (my embedded work was in life safety systems - fire alarms).
All I've ever relied on to sustain professional relevance are an open mind, open eyes, and a continuing enjoyment of learning.
I don't like to give advice, but I would say, consider what interests you first, dive in and learn, but mostly Just Do It - there's no substitute for losing all track of time and seeing something really remarkable come to life - even if it isn't "the best" implementation.
I've known and worked with many very smart people who have challenged me and become dear friends. They have been the icing on the cake.
Do what you love, and you never have to work a day in your life!
Cheers,
Mike Fidler
"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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Though I have worked with Microsoft .NET since 2001, the more recent additions to the ASP.NET development paradigm such as MVC and a host of JavaScript, CSS libraries and frameworks appear to be bludgeoning the original concept to death.
I still work strictly in ASP.WEB WebForms because I find the paradigm straight-forward with good performance even for complex, database projects. However, I spend most of my time with WPF as it is a much more stable environment than web development.
I have worked with MVC on a very complex and large project a few years ago and found the excessive detail to be hindrance to productivity. However, the project from a technical standpoint was quite successful.
The original ASP.NET WebForms, in my view, is the best approach to web development that I have seen and still remains a very strong, mature solution to practically all web application requirements.
That being said, ASP.NET WebForms is definitely not "cool" and has little to offer in terms of the radical and low-level approaches that the newer web development paradigms are currently offering.
If you have been working with PHP than you are already used to working in an environment that is quite similar to "Classic ASP". As a result, you shouldn't have that much difficulty in coming up to speed with with ASP.NET MVC.
As it regards the future of ASP.NET, for now MVC is the preponderant paradigm being used by most .NET developers. However, software paradigms go in cycles every 5 to 10 years. We are now in the 6th year of ASP.NET MVC and there are already symptoms of the pendulum swinging back to ASP.NET WebForms as increasingly more and more features are being added to the MVC side of things including some that appear to be somewhat similar to ASP.NET's server controls.
For now stick with the MVC route but keep an eye on WebForms. After 42 years in the corporate environments I have seen it all and MVC is simply too complex to produce good work in complex environments since it only adds to the complexities already involved. As a result, I suspect that many developers will eventually tire of having to learn so many different technologies that support MVC as new tools appear to be surfacing on a near daily basis making a confused landscape even more confusing...
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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I do believe .net has a bright future especially once asp core becomes mainstream.
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Hi All,
Remember a little while ago someone (chrisel?) Posted a message called 'take my money now'
Well here is a link to it CERATECH - ZX SPECTRUM - THE RECREATED SINCLAIR ZX SPECTRUM | CPC UK[^] Oh boy! I can see the square eyes now I am thinking about getting one, however I still have a hacked together original that works if I can find a TV with a UHF in.
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glennPattonBackInThePUB wrote: if I can find a TV with a UHF in
Whilst searching for a MIDI to game port cable the other day, I came across my old TI-99/4a and briefly thought how cool it would be to see if it still works, then realized I'd have to find a UHF/coax adapter and dismissed it. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Like this?[^]
That site has a lot of cool stuff.
Mouser.com has a bunch of related things as well.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I believe this was the link[^]that was spread here on CP last year.
I've kept the link cause I want one. Just gotta go get it. 
Jack of all trades, master of none, though often times better than master of one.
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Mad thing is they are £69.95 at the moment if you use the code CS2891619! 
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I bought one of these this week:[^]
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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What happens to Nitrogen when the sun comes up?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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You're running on fumes here.
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Yeah yeah, calm down down Jumpin' Jack Flash.
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That's very noble of you to say.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Hopefully it's not just a phase.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Yeah, like vaporware.
/ravi
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Heligon done it now. He02 be funnier than this.
Heligon = He02
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It becomes Daytrogen... Duh!
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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No - the sun rises in the East, so it becomes oestrogen. 
And yes, that is the correct spelling. The version without the leading "o" is the English (Simplified) spelling.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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The time is nigh, these jokes must end. 
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