I have installed it to have a look (but not yet spent any time on it yet). I was surprised to see when it installed the external stuff (ie android sdk etc) it actually installed google chrome for me. Kind of a really? Wow! Moment. On 8 Jan 2015 2:43 pm, "Greg Keogh" <g...@mira.net> wrote:
> Thanks David, your link to this article > http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/12/04/introducing-net-core.aspx > posted about a month ago (good reading) clarifies where things are headed. > I hadn't been following the news closely, so I was unclear about the big > picture of where all the frameworks, portables, RTs and Universals were > heading, I couldn't see an end-game. > > I can't picture yet how this will affect the way I chose to build and > deploy various project types, but perhaps the preview VS2015 will show me > ... has anyone tried VS2015? Does it have new behaviour to prepare for all > the .NET core refactoring? I'm planning to make a VM to try VS2015 this > weekend. > > *Greg K* > > On 3 January 2015 at 12:03, David Kean <david.k...@microsoft.com> wrote: > >> The next version of universal apps is going to be lovely. We’ll have a >> single Windows and .NET surface area across all Windows 10 devices, and >> we’ll be filling a bunch of the glaring gaps (including WCF, local database >> – we’ll have EF running over SQLLite, file IO, crypto). As part of .NET >> Core >> <http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/12/04/introducing-net-core.aspx> >> effort, we’ve also ported a bunch of legacy areas to make porting from >> existing .NET code easier. If you think things are missing that should be >> included and you’ve not listed them below, feel free to send them onto me. >> >> >> >> *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: >> ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Price >> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 23, 2014 8:06 PM >> *To:* ozDotNet >> *Subject:* Re: WP - prepare for universal app development in Windows 10 >> >> >> >> Universal apps are lovely. >> >> >> >> there you go. >> >> [image: >> http://t.signaledue.com/e1t/o/5/f18dQhb0S7ks8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9gXrN7sKj6v4LGzzVdDZcj8qlRZHN5w6vp0g4p7Cf96836-01?si=6200614728499200&pi=18f8bcdd-be75-4e65-cda4-5bf7f562f3e2] >> >> >> >> On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Greg Keogh <g...@mira.net> wrote: >> >> It’s interesting to read the comments, and the Microsoft replies – >> about what is currently missing from “universal” and why Silverlight is >> more suitable, at present. >> >> >> >> Good grief! I didn't previously scroll down to see those comments. I >> don't think this migration to WinRT should have been announced until all of >> the glaring omissions were available. Alarms, reminders, copy-paste, local >> database, WCF (they must be kidding, or can't talk to anything)... The >> whole RT and winmd files thing leaves me bewildered by more divergence and >> too many choices, everything is fragmenting without a clear goal in sight. >> Has anyone got anything nice to say about "universal apps"?-- *Greg K* >> >> >> > >
