Future of M$
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sorry just wasted time learning MVC4 trying to do something as simple as migrating old legacy MembershipProvider supporting an old webform site to new shiny mvc4 site. What i found is, MVC4 AccountController doesn't like the old MembershipProvider - you must now use SimpleMembershipProvider from WebMatrix dll, in additional to the couple other hurdles you'd need jumped over just to get the stupid app working. All the jazz - primary difference really is route maps to *enforce* mandatory MVC pattern. Now, WPF/WCF, there's nothing new in terms of what you *can do* - I can do everything using Winform and good old Socket user won't know any difference. It's just coding differently. So what's "Declarative Progamming"? Instead of coding setup programmatically, you now memorize WPF data binding formats, memorize WCF configurations parameters. That's Great Learning Experience. (Don't even start on SL) I wonder, instead of wasting developers time chasing the latest coding pattern - anyone here working in M$ can actually tell me they are going to invent anything that's actually Useful? Sorry a little unhappy being made to learn new things that don't do anything new *for me* This said, everything Windows M$ we developers (in particularly GUI components Infragistics/DevExpress, flowchart for example Mindfusion spreadsheet gears, Appliedalgo so I dont need reinvent yet another scheduler/grid) we have good base of vendor which allow us to deliver more with less than for example poor folks from Java camp. And also a lot of very useful open source libraries (HtmlAgility pack parsing html for example. Quartz/ncron..etc - but sorry why do I need log4net... I just prefer not to add one additional dll when I don't need to). [this said why M$ never give us a good DataGridView for free!?] Anyway, really, anything *new* and *exciting* on the radar? (By this I don't mean new "Coding Paradigm" god damn) Will they stop their Project Managers from just launching new projects that doesn't give us anything real, not just for sake of starting yet another project? OR anyone know they already have planned "The Next Grand Paradigm Change"? (Shit I have a bad feeling for this) ... urm this said I do like .net 4 language extension LINQ (In particular LINQ for SQL for lazy dev's), lamda expr, annonymous types. ok, call it a day - I need a beer.