From: Jackie on
Also, if you ever want to develop commercial applications, you must
purchase Visual Studio. A hobbyist developer wanting to try to earn some
money with his creations may not want to pay �999+ for it before he's
even making any money.
From: AZ Nomad on
On Thu, 13 May 2010 08:30:45 -0700 (PDT), RayLopez99 <raylopez88(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>Seriously, who codes in Linux and what platforms, IDEs, etc do they
>use? What language?

>I code in C#, have done Windows Forms, WPF, Silverlight, ADO.NET,
>ASP.NET and some VB and Access dB programming, though I prefer
>ADO.NET. Getting into WCF now (SOAP) web services using REST as
>well. All of course under the award winning Visual Studio IDE. I'm
>using VS 2008 but might upgrade to VS 2010.

>Seriously, why would ANYBODY code in Linux? Why? You can port
>Silverlight to Linux. I think in theory ASP.NET is platform neutral
>as well.

Anything you develop on a windows visual language is throwaway code. Use it and
toss it. Don't ever expect any of it to run anywhere else, even on a future
version of your current visual language.

From: Jackie on
On 5/13/2010 18:51, Jackie wrote:
> Also, if you ever want to develop commercial applications, you must
> purchase Visual Studio. A hobbyist developer wanting to try to earn some
> money with his creations may not want to pay �999+ for it before he's
> even making any money.

I was referring to VS2010 Pro:
http://emea.microsoftstore.com/europe/en-US/Microsoft/Visual-Studio-Professional-2010-Full-(English)

Of course, VS2008 would be a cheaper option (not *cheap* but cheaper).
From: The Big Ticket on
Jackie wrote:
> Also, if you ever want to develop commercial applications, you must
> purchase Visual Studio. A hobbyist developer wanting to try to earn some
> money with his creations may not want to pay �999+ for it before he's
> even making any money.

This is not correct.

<http://www.microsoft.com/express/support/support-faq.aspx>

<copied>

How much will these products cost?

Effective April 19th, 2006, all Visual Studio Express Editions are free
permanently. This pricing covers all Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions
and Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions including Visual Basic, Visual
C#, Visual C++, Visual J# (only available in Visual Studio 2005
Express), and Visual Web Developer as well as all localized versions of
Visual Studio Express.

Can I use Express Editions for commercial use?

Yes, there are no licensing restrictions for applications built using
Visual Studio Express Editions.

<end copy>
From: The Big Ticket on
AZ Nomad wrote:
> On Thu, 13 May 2010 08:30:45 -0700 (PDT), RayLopez99 <raylopez88(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> Seriously, who codes in Linux and what platforms, IDEs, etc do they
>> use? What language?
>
>> I code in C#, have done Windows Forms, WPF, Silverlight, ADO.NET,
>> ASP.NET and some VB and Access dB programming, though I prefer
>> ADO.NET. Getting into WCF now (SOAP) web services using REST as
>> well. All of course under the award winning Visual Studio IDE. I'm
>> using VS 2008 but might upgrade to VS 2010.
>
>> Seriously, why would ANYBODY code in Linux? Why? You can port
>> Silverlight to Linux. I think in theory ASP.NET is platform neutral
>> as well.
>
> Anything you develop on a windows visual language is throwaway code. Use it and
> toss it. Don't ever expect any of it to run anywhere else, even on a future
> version of your current visual language.
>

What an idiot this person is, and he is flat-out lying about it. This
person is not a programmer on any platform. He is just an office boy
bum, a throwaway..