Dotnet. Anyone Play With It?

[FreeStyleMan]

I'm talking about Microsoft Visual Studio of course, ASP.NET VB.NET C++.NET etc..

I have had to learn some VB.NET due to my college course, I have to say, it's quite a logical language, with similarities to PHP, but subtle differences also. I don't know if this is better or worse, but I often end up writing more code in VB.NET than in PHP, and more code = more time.

Anyone else played with Visual Studio? It's free.. iirc.

[Ocean10000]

I make my living as a developer of Dot.Net related web applications and support tools. My primary development tool is Visual Studio 2010 currently. So the answer to your question would be yes.

[FreeStyleMan]

I've used Visual Studio for quite a long time, and recently obtained MS VS 2010 Ultimate, thanks to Uni. But yes, the express editions (ie. MS VS C# Express 2010) should be free, as long as you're student, I believe.

Personally I've only been busy with ASP.net and C#.net; the latter only a bit, though. Unfortunately ASP.net doesn't go very well with Apache servers. It is possible, but it's just a pain to work with if not using a Windows server. C#.net is all right so far, though.

[serutan]

Visual Studio isn't free but Visual Web Developer is, whether you're a student or not. I've extensively used both, and for web dev you can do practically everything in VWD that you can do in VS. I highly recommend downloading it.

[Webskater]

I developed in MIcrosoft's Active Server Pages for about 7 years and was a late changer to .Net. I've been developing .Net apps in C# using Visual Studio for about 3 years now.
Comparing developing in a scripting environment like ASP to an object oriented, compiled environment is like comparing chalk and cheese.
If developing PHP is similar to ASP (which I believe it is - had a brief look at PHP a while ago) then I would say developing in Visual Studio is at least twice as fast as developing in a scripting language.