Contents tagged with .NET Wishes
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More .NET apps in Fedora Core 5 than Windows Vista?
Will Fedora Core 5, the Linux distro supported by Red Hat, have more managed code than Windows Vista? It sure looks that way. Microsoft has made heavy use of .NET in their developer and enterprise products, but .NET is pretty much absent from Windows Vista , as evidenced by Richard Grimes' recent analysis. -
Wish: Subscription Abstraction Layer
RSS.NET and Atom.NET[1] are great, but they sure could use an abstraction layer. I'll bet the same conditional logic has been written hundreds of times, but I haven't found anywhere that it's been abstracted out as a standalone library. Think ADO.NET - it's a general data access framework that allows any data provider (SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, Text, write your own) to be accessed as generic interfaces (IDataReader, etc.).
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We need an Embedded Database for .NET applications
No, I'm not talking about Jet / Access. Microsoft and the general development community are moving away from it; plus, the MDAC redistributable is kinda big.
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[wish] Community code namespace standards
I'm happy to see the huge growth of community contributed code - things like RSS.NET, sharpziplib, ftp classes to tide us over 'til .NET 2.0, etc.
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XmlPreprocess and conditional web.config wishes
Loren Halvorson wrote about XmlPreprocess. It allows you to add some basic logic and token replacement to XML config files, like ASP.NET web.config files, like this:
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Free Whidbey!
While it's frightening to go out on a limb with a fringe statement like this (heck, even Frans goes party line on this one!), I'm willing to stand up and be counted in the Free Whidbey movement (logo to follow).
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'System.Uri.NonPathPart' is inaccessible due to its protection level
'System.Uri.NonPathPart' is inaccessible due to its protection level
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XAML Emulator?
Wouldn't an Avalon / XAML emulator be great? Kinda like the PocketPC emulator that's part of the MS Embeded Visual Toolkit. Then those of us who didn't get to PDC, don't have Longhorn, but would love to start working with XAML could at least start getting acquainted with it.
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ASP.NET New Web Project System
As a full time ASP.NET developer, this is one of my favorite Whidbey features: ASP.NET offers support for File System and FTP projects, and much smoother Local IIS integration. That's going to save me tons of time and aggravation.
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Fix and Continue...
C-based language developers don't want Edit and Continue, right?