Guidelines, Frameworks, Endorsements (was: ColdFusion and the Web Application Market

>Right, and the idea is to lock you in to the vendor's way of doing >things and make it hard for third-parties to provide good tools. The >likes of FarCry would never be developed for ASP.NET because of MS's >everything-including-the-kitchen-sink system. A lot of CFers make their >living developing and selling packages to other CFers - I think that's >a good thing and I think MS are actually stifling the market with their >approach... This is complete and utter _bullshit_, and I can't believe someone of your position at MM would even say something like this! There's more than one IDE, by different manufacturers!!! There's Mono!! An ASP.NET project is nothing but _text_, for crying out loud, and there's _nothing_ that would prevent, say MM, from implementing _everything_ that VS.NET does!  Other companies have already! Do you know what DotNetNuke is?  My God. As for FarCry, it uses IE specific features, so please spare me the rhetoric. Yeesh...