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I couldn't possibly consider .Net core on a number of reasons I didn't discuss above. Opt out telemetry, constant direction changes, who is in charge of the project and the general abusive nature of the company running the show towards its customers and end users over the last decade. The list is endless.

I have actually tried to get things fixed on MSFT open source projects as well and even when you get up to Scott Hanselman poking it on github, nothing tends to happen. On top of that many crippling bugs remain unresolved for so far 9 years. We have unreliable tooling, portability problems, all sorts.

On a larger team and product, it's a non trivial time and cost sink.

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alex_hitchins8y ago· 2 in thread

What was the bug that remained open for 9 years? Was it part of the .net framework or a Windows SDK issue?

What sort of projects did you have the most trouble with? Where were your pain points?

setqukOP8y ago

Sorry was 8 years ... ClickOnce refused to launch on over 2000 machines when they removed download prompting from IE9. This sits between the .net framework and the IE team, neither of which would take responsibility for fixing. Eventually we got a registry fix out of them from bottom line support which turned download prompting back on which was removed from the IE UI but still left in there. The registry fix we had to deploy to hundreds of clients and had a massive support cost. This is still broken in IE11. It was reported on an IE9 beta.

Pain points: large project performance, high concurrency projects, IDE reliability, cost, odd time sinks, bugs in the framework, lack of automation possibility for a vast number of project types (try building VSTO applications on a CI server), deprecations (WWF/WCF changes, AppFabric, Velocity etc) all sorts.

alex_hitchins8y ago

Thank you for this response. I'll not counter each point as that will get us nowhere and serve no purpose. I'm just very interested in how two people can have such polar views on the same technology.

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