Re:Microsoft is ignoring .net developers
by MichaelApproved on Friday April 03, 2009 @11:00PM
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These libraries may be open source but they're still written/managed by major companies. PHP library is managed by Facebook. The Flash library is managed by Adobe. The .net library? Abandoned at codeplex...
Part of being a platform vendor is releasing libraries. Adobe isn't waiting for a public team to write their product, they just did it themselves because it adds value to the platform.
Writing and maintaining a library for facebook doesn't require that many resources. Now I know you're response is going to be "Then why don't you do it." I wont do it because I can't write every little bit of code.
You don't need a corporate behemoth to give you an API for a web service. You can bitch about MS withholding binary API for its system calls, but the web is wide open baby! XML protocols are the easiest to implement, no wonder there are clients for all the major languages, and the not-so-major ones:
http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Client_Librari...
MS is a platform vendor, it can't afford to hitch its wagon to a wild horse like a web application; these things come and go, but the platform stays (even if it changes face.)
If you want tight integration of "facebook" with Visual Studio, you will probably have to write your own plugin. Or use an open development environment, even if you target a proprietary OS.
Cheers!