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Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin'...

Siderant: Why the hell is it that my hard drive is still churning an hour and a half after I turned it on? I hate corporate environments.

So the big news is that Whidbey and Yukon ship dates slip. Yukon, really, who cares, because I didn't really expect it this year anyway. While revolutionary in terms of object persistence, the truth is that we can all live without Yukon for awhile. No worries.

Whidbey is something entirely different. Come on, Microsoft... you let us know what was in there and ASP.NET developers in particular want it yesterday. Having played with it extensively, I'd be happy at the very least to have the "go live" license with the first beta, because in recreational testing, it's almost ready for production as-is. Master pages, membership and personalization make our Web apps so much easier to build with less plumbing. We can't wait for that. Besides, we all know that the HTML-mangling that the VS designer does is worse than early versions of FrontPage.

Throw us a freakin' bone here... listen to your customers.

2 Comments

  • I couldn't agree more!



    The developer improvements in ASP.NET Whidbey are real timesavers. I don't want to write my own MasterPages or membership classes any more. Not when I know MS have done this! I want to use the master pages designer and actually see what my page looks like.



    I don't care about Yukon, I'm happy to use SQL2K.



    Many, many people seem to be in general agreement with the above. Come on Microsoft have a read of http://weblogs.asp.net and listen to some customer feedback!

  • Hey Bill and Steve read the news.... get with us developers in the trenches.

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