ALT.NET - Alternative tools and approaches to mainstream .NET

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Published Monday, June 04, 2007 9:50 AM by RoyOsherove
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Monday, June 04, 2007 10:48 AM by Will Sahatdjian

# re: ALT.NET - Alternative tools and approaches to mainstream .NET

I think your approximations are pretty close, although I don't see too many people saying that DLinq isn't "hot". Looking at your list, I am definitely closer to the left side, but not in every category...
Monday, June 04, 2007 11:21 AM by Donald Belcham

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Hot: My hair cut Not Hot: Justice's hair cut
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Monday, June 04, 2007 12:05 PM by paul

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There's nothing that glamorous about the OOTB stuff that MS puts out. However, I'm glad to see a shift in thought on MS's part about open-source - such as with AJAX.NET.  With a community of people creating better applications and tools, i hope it'll humble MS to recognize grassroots efforts and get in the trenches with us.

Monday, June 04, 2007 12:12 PM by Haacked

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Yeah, MbUnit instead of NUnit. ;)
Monday, June 04, 2007 12:14 PM by D'Arcy from Winnipeg

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Dude, I don't know what Tech Ed's are like in Europe, but in North America they have somethign that automatically makes it kewler than any RubyCon or CodeCamp: Auto-Replenishing Junk Food Tables/Drink Stations. Seriously...when I can go to a code camp, load up on Coke Cherry One and protein bars ALL DAY LONG, then I'll happily move Tech Ed into that right hand column...but until then... ;) D'Arcy
Monday, June 04, 2007 12:58 PM by hammett

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I missed Castle Windsor on the list ;-)
Monday, June 04, 2007 2:25 PM by orcmid

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I've been wondering about this too, especially as I find myself dissatisfied and frustrated with Microsoft packaging and efforts at market segregation. You can see it in Visual Studio, starting with the Express Editions and working up to VSTS in its many spledors. It is present in the too-many choices for Office 2007 and in the configuration choices for Vista. The problem with chopping up the products this way is that you and I and others don't fit those cookie cutters. It is back to having to accept a Chevrolet bench seat designed for some average driver. Instead of improving modularity and plug-and-play, as do many of your left-column components, there are high permeability barriers among configurations that seem more about business models than who we are and the variety of ways we may want to do things. My favorite catch-22 this week: I have a Tablet PC that has no way to upgrade its graphics adapter. I have installed Vista Ultimate for one principle reason: I want Bit Locker. I also like features I can get with the Home Premium version (such as improved tablet functions, SUA/UAC, and better handwriting recognition). Oddly, I have to commit a registry hack to get Bit Locker enabled (I need to use a USB key, which the help says I can have, it just refuses to actually offer that version). But the real downer is my graphics rating of 1.0. This is not a problem for me -- the non-Aero display works just fine -- except for some reason Media Player presents DVDs badly on Vista. Also, some Microsoft Apps refuse to install (such as the Movie Editor) because they claim the graphic capability is not good enough. None of these are too painful, but it shows the brittleness of these arbitrary slicings into different price points and, presumably, target audiences. I also sense some haste and carelessness in how Vista has been carried out. This approach is too brittle for software and tools and it is feeling increasingly dissatisfying.
Monday, June 04, 2007 2:56 PM by Fear and Loathing

# Old and busted or new hotness

Roy Osherove posted a what's hot and what's not list, mainly aimed at this whole ALT.NET developer talk

Monday, June 04, 2007 2:59 PM by DotNetKicks.com

# ALT.NET - Alternative tools and approaches to mainstream .NET

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Monday, June 04, 2007 3:49 PM by foobar

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CVS is hot? Ug. Given a choice between CVS and VSS, I'd rather poke my eye out.
Monday, June 04, 2007 3:53 PM by Mike Griffin

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Yes, you are, 2 very cool items: EntitySpaces 2007 http://www.entityspaces.net MyGeneration (100% Free) http://www.mygenerationsoftware.com
Monday, June 04, 2007 3:57 PM by Ricardo Stuven

# re: ALT.NET - Alternative tools and approaches to mainstream .NET

Linq to NHibernate is hot (to be fair with Linq :)
Monday, June 04, 2007 4:05 PM by Bil Simser

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@Roy: Thanks for the addition and clarification. I was a little confused by the list initially (hence my own post). I don't necessarily subscribe that "everything MS is not" approach. I am looking forward your further thoughts on it though.
Monday, June 04, 2007 4:30 PM by pieter

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Agree mostly on the HOT, but I love SCSF, so I don't agree with the NOT on that.
Monday, June 04, 2007 5:06 PM by Jay R. Wren

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HAHAHA!

I don't entirely agree either.  but the HOT/NOT format made me laugh!

If taken for comedy - this is great.  If taken too seriously - this is BAD.

Monday, June 04, 2007 6:52 PM by Christopher Brandsma

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I would move CSV to NOT, and VSTS Source Control to HOT. Add SubVersion with NHibernate in HOT Add Linq to HOT .NET 2.0 to HOT (still), .NET 1.1 to NOT MS AJAX to HOT. ReSharper to HOT, Plain Jane Visual Studio.NET to NOT.
Monday, June 04, 2007 7:26 PM by CodeSniper

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Hot:  Contrived Hot-or-Not lists  

Not: HotOrNot.com

:)

Tuesday, June 05, 2007 4:18 AM by Scott Hanselman

# re: ALT.NET - Alternative tools and approaches to mainstream .NET

It's over for CVS, it's all Subversion now. It's also over for NUnit, it's all MBUnit now. XP is also out, while Scrum is rising. MVC is heading out while MVP is heading in... Great list.
Tuesday, June 05, 2007 6:57 AM by Florian Krüsch

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How about REST vs. SOAP? :) Some of the technologies Microsoft presented at MIX07 are pretty cool I think, the DLR of course, but also Jasper and Astoria go defintely in the right direction. What's the driving factor? If you take Ruby, it is totally driven by community. MS is trying to adopt to thoughts demand by the community, but they own the technology.
Tuesday, June 05, 2007 7:35 AM by Steve

# re: ALT.NET - Alternative tools and approaches to mainstream .NET

The framework is hot - adding LINQ is hot, WPF is hot, etc... Building tools that already are established in OSS world - definitely not hot. (ie. MSUnit, DLinq over NHibernate) If you look at that list, that is the theme.
Tuesday, June 05, 2007 8:16 AM by h9uo

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subsonic

Tuesday, June 05, 2007 9:45 AM by kevin

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missed SubSonic on the list. nice job though, and humorous...made me smile. thx.
Tuesday, June 05, 2007 12:35 PM by Jon Rowett

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is .NET 3.0 really hot?
Tuesday, June 05, 2007 12:54 PM by Sam Gentile

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Great list, I have made some mods at the link above for me - I agree with Scott - CVS is SO out

Tuesday, June 05, 2007 5:43 PM by Simone

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Just few thoughts on some of the rows of the table, but for many of them the answer is in my opinion that .NET is not used only in the enterprise/daytime job world, but also in the opensource and hobbistic space, so for the people that do it in the spare time, as hobby free ( = as in free beer) is better. ORM: it's a more OO way to access data and spend less time building the DAL.. and the Entity Framework is not available yet, and DLinq has been discontinued. CI: Team Build is not CI... probably if MS had add CI in TFS probably more people will use it SourceForce vs Codeplex: one is around since 10 years, the other less than 1 year. Given the success it has, I guess it is having a lot of success Google Gear sucks, don't see the point in offline storage for online applications Conferences: Codecamps are free, Teched and so are very expensive UnitTesting: NUnit, MbUnit are available since a lot of time, MSTest just with TFS... Blogging tool: I would say Community Server is hot as well... just a bit more complicated and bloated then the tools on the left. And, please, don't even try to compare MSN Spaces to a blog engine: no customization, lack of the basic social feature of blogging... this can be compared to MySpace or, maybe, to Blogger, but not to personal blogging engine as Subtext, Wordpress and so on One question: what do u refer to with Object Builder?
Tuesday, June 05, 2007 6:50 PM by Mike Gale

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I'm not sure what this HOT/NOT is about. I'm interested in what I will use. That means a fairly detailed analysis including things like "will it be around, or at least supported, in x years". The HOT idea looks like a fashion parade. Especially with languages that seems a dangerous way to decide. (I'm personally enthusiastic about F# and Powershell at present. Though the former is still a research language, so only for those who go in with their eyes wide open. Wouldn't touch CVS, though SVN might be good, but what about Vault?) An interesting approach would be to figure out what "developers like me" are thinking rather than putting all developers in a single "basket".
Friday, June 08, 2007 5:36 PM by G

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Is .NET 2.0 already on the way out? Aren't most employers still looking for 2.0 developers?
Saturday, June 09, 2007 4:18 AM by Eran Kampf

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You don't like the application blocks much do you?
Monday, June 11, 2007 9:31 AM by JrzyShr Dev Guy

# Shaking out the Innovation

There's been a lot of talk going on in the Microsoft community ( here , here , here , and here ) lately

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Wednesday, June 13, 2007 3:58 PM by Colin Jack

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DDD, I think that is certainly how.

Thursday, June 14, 2007 12:24 AM by Richard Hein

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Saying Web Forms or DLinq or Application Blocks or WCSF is NOT hot is untrue, and besides they all use underlying concepts that are not fixed - they can evolve to use concepts from the HOT column, and you know it's ironic how much up front design is necessary to start a movement. ;-)
Saturday, June 16, 2007 5:48 PM by Acercate a .Net

# Como pasar de MVP a Microsoft Most Wanted y el movimiento ALT.NET

Una de las bases en la que se sustenta .NET es su comunidad. Es difícil encontrar detrás de una tecnología

Saturday, June 16, 2007 5:49 PM by Clic Compulsivo

# Como pasar de MVP a Microsoft Most Wanted y el movimiento ALT.NET

Una de las bases en la que se sustenta .NET es su comunidad. Es difícil encontrar detrás de una tecnología

Saturday, June 16, 2007 5:49 PM by Clic Compulsivo

# Como pasar de MVP a Microsoft Most Wanted y el movimiento ALT.NET

Una de las bases en la que se sustenta .NET es su comunidad. Es difícil encontrar detrás de una tecnología

Saturday, June 16, 2007 5:49 PM by Emilio Velardiez's Blog

# Como pasar de MVP a Microsoft Most Wanted y el movimiento ALT.NET

Una de las bases en la que se sustenta .NET es su comunidad. Es difícil encontrar detrás de una tecnología...

Sunday, June 17, 2007 8:23 PM by Embedded DSLs at Discord&Rhyme

# Embedded DSLs at Discord&Rhyme

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Wednesday, June 20, 2007 3:56 AM by Guru Stop

# ALT.NET - Those who don't have to go with everyone else without thinking

ALT.NET - Those who don't have to go with everyone else without thinking

Wednesday, June 20, 2007 6:29 PM by Fuzzyman

# re: ALT.NET - Alternative tools and approaches to mainstream .NET

Coming to .NET from the open source (Python) world, perhaps I have a different perspective.

CVS is defintely not hot (SVN is though). .NET 2 is not yet out, few people are adopting .NET 3 for production just yet (or even looking at is as far as I can tell)...

XP is not out, it is less 'enterprisey' than scrum and so will always be 'cooler' to some eyes.

NUnit does have a lot of respect.

MVC is not out - but I think it means something different in our world...

Fuzzyman

Friday, June 29, 2007 8:55 AM by ALT.NET « perhaps

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Saturday, August 04, 2007 9:26 PM by Jay R. Wren - lazy dawg evarlast » Blog Archive » It isn't about the tools. It is about what the tools get you.

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Wednesday, August 08, 2007 10:45 PM by Why ASP.Net? — sideline

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Saturday, August 25, 2007 8:51 AM by PhatBoyG.com » Blog Archive » alt.net Open Space Conference Oct 5th-7th in Austin

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Saturday, September 08, 2007 8:47 AM by Jeremy D. Miller -- The Shade Tree Developer

# Scrum is fine, but don't leave the XP at home

Don't read this post as a criticism of Scrum per se, I'm just concerned that the popularity of

Saturday, September 22, 2007 3:02 AM by Shallow thoughts from a consultant @ Microsoft

# Scrum i praktiken med Björn Eriksen

Björn har tagit fram en cool tvådagarskurs i Scrum/XP som är utformad på ett sätt som gör mig både avundsjuk

Saturday, September 22, 2007 3:53 AM by Noticias externas

# Scrum i praktiken med Björn Eriksen

Björn har tagit fram en cool tvådagarskurs i Scrum/XP som är utformad på ett sätt som gör mig både avundsjuk

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Tuesday, September 25, 2007 5:06 PM by BrianDonahue.Persist()

# Philly ALT.NET... How 'bout it?!

Philly ALT.NET... How 'bout it?!

Thursday, October 11, 2007 11:40 PM by MS MVC - A MonoRail Perspective « Adam Esterline

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Saturday, October 20, 2007 9:54 AM by Paul Gielens:ThoughtsService

# Does it take ALT.NET to see what sane men can't

For some background lean on Google . No, it does not. I have been explaining, helping and coaching others

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Wednesday, November 21, 2007 10:04 AM by Alt.NET « Addisu Hailegiorgis Desta

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Sunday, December 02, 2007 10:20 PM by Rob Conery » Hey Cool Kids - Alt.Crank is Boring

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Wednesday, December 05, 2007 2:38 AM by Lazy Coder

# ALT.Net, what cool kids are doing nowadays?

Check this blog entry about about what's hot or not in the .Net development space.

Monday, January 21, 2008 2:33 AM by Zinknation.net - Kevin Zink

# Rails VS ASP.NET part 3: All About ASP.NET!

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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 10:27 AM by Moving over to ALT.NET « Castalian

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Tuesday, December 02, 2008 9:41 PM by Sam Gentile's Blog

# The ALT.NET Moniker and List

As I said in my Microsoft at the Crossroads post , I don't believe that Microsoft and many "mainstream" .NET developers understand the way many of us choose to work and the tools we use. For a long time, I generically refered to this as "Agile"

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