.NET All around
A few months ago I delved into the new Office 2003. I've created some SmartDocuments, and had some fun with the new interfaces. What I liked the most was that all the work was done in the familiar VS.NET IDE.
Today I finished a large PlaceHolder for the MCMS 2002. I liked the placeholders framework strcuture, and the development was quite smooth, and with some help from Steffan, the undisputable MCMS king, everything now works fine.Again, what I liked the most was that the entire work is pure .NET dev, in the beloved VS.NET.
When I remember the not-so-good old days, when we had a seperate IDE for each environment, I get shivers. After going through Office Developer (for SPS!!), VBA (for Office), VB6 (for...well...VB6), Edit Plus (my favorite ASP text editor), and then some, I can't but praise MS for the great unity they put into the different environments. Undoubtly, the learning curve for the new Office system, SPS2003, MCMS 2002 and all the future products of MS will be much smoother.