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6/7/2011 12:31 PM
 
William Jeansonne

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With the recent announcement of Windows 8 and its touted HTML5/Javascript interface, where does .Net fit in Microsoft's long range plans? Moreover, will it essentially spell an end to DNN's .Net framework dependency? Here's an interesting article out today discussing this issue. It also had direct links to the developer boards where .Net and Silverlight developers are freaking out over a lack of news or guidance on the next version of Windows.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/articl...
 
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6/7/2011 4:26 PM
 
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.Net and Silverlight are not going away.  DevDiv and their core development platform represents a multi-billion revenue source for Microsoft and I don't see that changing because another division has added a shiny new layer on the next version of Windows.  At the end of the day, it is still Windows under the shiny new veneer.  IIS is not going away and the need for web apps is not going away.
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6/7/2011 4:58 PM
 
William Jeansonne

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Ok, thanks Joe. I was really playing the devil's advocate here to see if and when DNN might morph into a Silverlight/HTML5/Javascript app, than anything else. --Not that it would go away entirely.
 
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6/7/2011 9:45 PM
 
Bruce Chapman


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I'd be very surprised to find if the new layer on Windows isnt' actually built on .NET anyway.  Windows 8 will still be the same basic codebase that started with Windows NT4 - albeit many source code checkins later.  There really are no new operating systems under the sun - chip away at their shiny exteriors and you'll find the same basic concepts started in the 1980s or earlier.   Even .NET, for all it's relative newness, sits on top of the same basic windows architecture.

If anything, the rise and rise of mobile devices and continual connectedness just drives the market for website-in-a-box solutions like DNN much further.  There are massive opportunities for both DNN and DNN developers in these trends. They key is finding out how to intersect services with platforms like Windows 8, iOS, Android and others.
 
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6/7/2011 9:58 PM
 
William Jeansonne

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Well, being a non-programmer or developer, I was alarmed by how even developers seem to have been kept in the dark with the recent announcement of Windows 8. Moreover, knowing that Windows Phone 7 was largely developed in Silverlight and XAML, I was worried that it might be the beginning of the end for .Net, VB etc. That's why I threw out the question.

I plan to launch several more Web sites based on DNN, so I am definitely concerned about where it's all headed. I am aware that DNN is being re-written in C#, but was worried this recent development might even disrupt that.

P.S. Even the Xbox is getting the new Metro UI.
 
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