Fishy .NET?

[darktubbly]

I come from a heavily C++ oriented background with some work in web backends using PHP. Anyone here use the languages in the .NET platform like C#? If so, do you guys/gals have any thoughts on it? You know, stuff like, is it worth learning, or how does it compare to PHP, etc.

 

[DaveSimmons]

In the near term I see it being used for a lot of corporate / intranet and low-load internet sites.

Given that Windows Server 2003 + IIS with .NET is still wet behind the ears, is more expensive, and doesn't scale as well as linux + apache I'd be suprised to see much high-traffic use. Or much small-business use either since most small businesses use linux hosting instead of their own servers.

For corporate intranet it looks like an ideal platform for presenting dynamic content from MS servers and creating forms and editing pages for content stored on MS servers.

Next up, Descartes will chime in and tell you that .NET is cross-platform and not just for Windows (search on NET)

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
In the near term I see it being used for a lot of corporate / intranet and low-load internet sites.

Given that Windows Server 2003 + IIS with .NET is still wet behind the ears, is more expensive, and doesn't scale as well as linux + apache I'd be suprised to see much high-traffic use. Or much small-business use either since most small businesses use linux hosting instead of their own servers.

For corporate intranet it looks like an ideal platform for presenting dynamic content from MS servers and creating forms and editing pages for content stored on MS servers.

Next up, Descartes will chime in and tell you that .NET is cross-platform and not just for Windows (search on NET)

HAHA!

Actually, believe it or not, I was going to suggest the same thing you did: search. I say pretty much the same thing each time, so might as well to employ some level of reuse.

 

[darktubbly]

Oh, I have...I was just wondering if anyone here on the boards actually found it worthwhile in a real-world environment...or is it just something dumped on people by higher-ups because they've heard it's the latest and greatest toy.

 

[alocurto]

I've used C# .NET a bit as well as other .NET stuff. I used to do C++ a lot and had little trouble picking up C# (I have only done a few things with it). Learning it would be a good idea because .NET is going to be around for a while and with the performance edge over Java I wouldn't be surprised if .NET could be a big factor in the demise of Sun and Java. Just my 2 cents...

 

[Mucman]

darktubbly, working for a web-hosting company that is offering asp.net, I've seen some pretty sophisticated applications done in asp.net. It's definitely gaining in popularity, and is quite robust (as long as you are running it in Windows 2003 IIS 6).

 

[darktubbly]

Thanks for the all replies people! Mucman, just out of curiousity, do you have any examples you could describe?

 

[Mucman]

The only one I can think of on the top of my head is the online poll that comes up when you visit www.tsn.ca. The poll only comes up during certain
parts of the day... the same poll is accessible through your cell phone by going to call.tsn.ca.

With a lot of the sites, you can't really see anything online. A lot of it is internal stuff... ie admin pages, and webservices (yes some people are using
those too!).

I've spent a lot of time learning asp.net server administration that it makes me really want to start doing some programming for it... unfortuantely
I've lost a lot of my object orientated programming skills spending the last year writing perl/asp scripts.