Microsoft's new pitch: 'Every .Net developer is a Windows Phone developer'

Re:Microsoft's new pitch: 'Every .Net developer is a Windows... by yardie on Thursday February 18, 2010 @12:21PM (#1134665)

I guess this means be prepared for a ton of applications that are buggy, memory and CPU hogs. I'm a C# developer and developing for the iPhone has made me a much better developer in general. Things you don't have to worry about in .NET, like memory and thread management, are all in vogue now because Apple forces you to pay attention to them. And the compiler does a great job of letting you know that your application is as leaky as 100 year old plumbing.

Now the only question I have is will they take a cue from Apple and include free WM7 development tools in VS Express, or do you have to pony up $800 for the privilege?

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Re:Microsoft's new pitch: 'Every .Net developer is a Windows... by akshat on Thursday February 18, 2010 @12:50PM (#1134759)

I agree that programming in lower language like C (and Objective C to some extent) makes you a better programmer, since you are figuring out the nuts and bolts of a computer.

But the other part about only C# programs being CPU/memory hogs is all wrong. Though I have not coded in C#, I do know that a bad programmer can have memory leaks all over a C/Objective C program. Similarly a good C# programmer would write a robust program.

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Re:Microsoft's new pitch: 'Every .Net developer is a Windows... by towndrunk on Thursday February 18, 2010 @03:29PM (#1135177)

I take it you are not familiar with "Build and Analyze" in XCode.

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Re:Microsoft's new pitch: 'Every .Net developer is a Windows... by j_s on Thursday February 18, 2010 @01:28PM (#1134848)

I'm guessing Embedded Visual C++ could still be abused to create WM7 apps. Not too many would find it worth the effort though.

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