Poll: What language do you prefer for MS platforms?

Published by | Friday, July 22nd, 2011

Microsoft’s developer community has worked for many years with the .NET framework, a set of runtimes, compilers, libraries, and programming languages that lets developers build many different types of applications. From web applications built with ASP.NET and Silverlight, to Windows client applications, to Silverlight and XNA for Windows Phone, developers can code in multiple programming languages such as C# and VB.NET and use similar coding styles in many environments.

As we expand our training resources for developers who work with Microsoft technologies, we’d like to know what languages, platforms, and runtimes you most want to learn about. Let us know by taking these two polls. If you choose Other, please let us know what you’d like by leaving a comment on this post.

Which of the following programming languages do you prefer to use when programming for Microsoft platforms? Choose as many as you want:

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Which of the following platforms or frameworks do you want to develop applications for? Choose as many as you want:

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7 Responses to “Poll: What language do you prefer for MS platforms?”

  1. Jessica says:

    I accidentally omitted VB.NET from my response to the first poll. I thought I had checked it, but then saw as I was hitting the submit butt that I actually hadn’t. I’m interested in both C# and VB.NET.

    Also, I’m VERY glad to see that you are considering expanding training for Microsoft-based technologies.

    David, I loved your ASP.NET Essential Training course and I’d really love to see further titles in which you address some more advanced ASP.NET concepts, such as creating and consuming .NET web services, using AJAX.NET, and incorporating jQuery into ASP.NET pages, to name a few.

    I’d also love to see training on creating SQL Server Reporting Services reports using the Business Intelligence tools within Visual Studio.

    Thanks!

  2. Jorge Apodaca says:

    Please include a new amazing technology that increase day by day … to create amazing Desktop WebApps and Mobile Apps. These are Sencha ExtJS 4 and Sencha Touch. Site: http://www.Sencha.com

    Best Regards

  3. Steven yip says:

    I hope to see more tutorial on windows server 2008, exchange server, visual basic and SQL server programming to be included in the training list.

  4. Jaysone says:

    This couldn’t have come at a better time..C# please

  5. I selected other and its related web programming.

    Please consider IIS training material there is a complete lack of training anywhere on IIS. This would be especially useful for those who do any web development and I find many Sharepoint administrators have no core concepts of IIS and how it works. I haven’t seen training for IIS since 6.0 and even then its rare.

    IIS 7.5 Overview
    http://www.iis.net/overview

  6. Tamara says:

    Hi David,

    Mobile Sites & Apps seem (from everyting I am reading) to be the next hot market.

    I love Microsoft products and use C# / ASP.NET / SQL Sever / Dreamweaver (OK, so I love Adobe too :-) ) for developing my customers websites.

    They all now want to jump on the mobile bandwagon.

    Developing Apps for individual mobile platforms (iOS, Android, Blackberry & Windows) will be very time consuming (and expensive) for customers, so I’ve been looking at maybe using Flash Builder / Flex for the front end and still using Microsoft products for the backend.

    From the Flash Builder / Flex courses, it looks like they are able to consume Web Services. So … could I request a course in .NET Web Services?

    Thanks!

  7. Den says:

    I work with asp.net mvc.

    Do you know what is a really interesting topic for me? nServiceBus.

    Find somebody to create a good course on nServiceBus, please!

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