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Free Willy (sniggers) 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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I think like me, many .net developer are the victim of MS experiment.
I learned silverlight, it became outdated.
I learned Asp.Net WebForms, now no more supported in vNext.
I learned Mobile View features of MVC 4, taken over by bootstrap
Knockout got washed away by Angular.
I learned Identity in MVC 5, disappeared.
Windows 8 tiles were experimented and taken off in Windows 10.
Windows 9 experiment went away even before beta release. 
I learned IIS and now Microsoft is coming with self hosting website in cloud.
They are again experimenting and combining Web API, MVC and other stuffs in MVC 6. Changing a lot of stuffs. By the time we learn those stuffs, they take their step back and experiment something new.
Why the hell we are learning those for such a short duration.
All such stuffs are inspiring me to stay away from Microsoft and move towards open source for all major stuffs.
Life is a computer program and everyone is the programmer of his own life.
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Anurag Gandhi wrote: Why the hell we are learning those for such a short duration.
Because it's fun and you get paid for that? 
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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Hmmm,
We get paid for providing business solutions not for learning crap technologies.
Migration from previous verion of MVC to next version is always a pain.
Other technologies are also getting paid good. But they are not as volatile as MS. And many of them has solid core and works quite well.
Life is a computer program and everyone is the programmer of his own life.
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Anurag Gandhi wrote: We get paid for providing business solutions not for learning crap technologies
A technology is never "crap", it just can't pace up with the evolving context.
Anurag Gandhi wrote: Migration from previous verion of MVC to next version is always a pain.
If you mean ASP.NET MVC, you may be correct. I have worked with ASP.NET MVC 5 though. But the whole point is to meet your specific requirements.
Anurag Gandhi wrote: And many of them has solid core and works quite well.
So do M$FT technologies.
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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Anurag Gandhi wrote: But they are not as volatile as MS
Have you not noticed the velocity with which "in vogue" changes for Javascript frameworks, how technologies like Rails come into and out of fashion, and the forking of Open Source projects (most recently node.js)? I suspect you'll find things more similar than you hope in the OSS world.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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You don't need to be on the latest version of these frameworks.
Learn the languages well / keep up to date with those; but pick a framework and stick to it, until there's a significantly compelling reason to migrate, or you find something that's more standards compliant (e.g. if you picked something requiring SilverLight then an HTML5 friendly version appears, the HTML5 version's the one that'll stay, since it's compatible with more end-user devices).
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Which could also be said of the MS stack.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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shhh, that's a lie, don't let them know. We get paid to play with technology. Using same technology for years get boring. Microsoft just realized that and are providing us our "games".
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Consider it time well spent to prove you have the three years experience mandated by the HR department on a software product that has only been on the market for six months.
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It may strike you hard, but you can still use COBOL for 99% percent of your development - including web development!!!
So why learn new things?
To be able to choose the one good for you and not run after Microsoft, just because 'Redmond told so'...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Better example would PHP and Java. It keeps on upgrading with tools and frameworks but don't change the way MS creates new stuffs and shut it down so often.
Life is a computer program and everyone is the programmer of his own life.
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And who told you that old thing does not work?
Nothing had shut down - some ways developers doesn't go on so Microsoft stopped it, others matured...
However everything still out-there and you can use if you wish!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Yeah, Agreed.
It is still out there, but discontinued for further development.
Life is a computer program and everyone is the programmer of his own life.
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As VB6. Yet is still used - the user base provides what's missing. Which now is very very little!
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I hear you brother, M$ has not been taking care of her developers and those who dwell in M$ ecosystem last couple years.
dev
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And here I am, still happily SendMessageing
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And here's another! Up until now, it never failed me.
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But for me, I had to re-write the stuffs many times when migrating to newer version.
Had to convert silverlight project to Html 5 in short time. There are many more but... you can understand...
Life is a computer program and everyone is the programmer of his own life.
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Think it this way: it provides work for us. If with one technology you need X people, with 7 technologies you'll need many more to provide interoperability, future maintenance, porting...
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That's like saying demolishing windows helps the economy
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Well, you can't really prevent windows from being broken, so... just ride with it!
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And working for Oracle and or Google that directly benefit from "open project" miss understood (on purpose) as "open source"
Gordon
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I even CListCtrl, from time to time.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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