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by Christian Weyer.
Original Post: Indigo marketing: playing with figures
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OK, we all know the "ASP.NET 2.0 makes you new code 70% leaner - you won't even have to write so much code to have essentially everything in your web app" ... hm ... of course not. While I believe the magnitude of the mentioned figure might be correct (after playing with ASP.NET Whidbey a few times) it is just for the most common tasks, obviuosly.
And now Steven VanRoekel, from the Microsoft Web services marketing team, takes this basic idea and states in an interview that Indigo will tremedously reduce the number of lines of code you have to program to achieve your goal - well, I guess I do not need to comment on that. Every serious developer should be able to handle this statement on its own. I do not want to talk along the lines of "Just trust the statistics you forged yourself" :-D - but more a bit of apples and peas ...
''If you got Visual Studio .NET in February 2002 to write that application -- we've done these tests -- it can take roughly 60,000 lines of code,'' he said. ''Using our WSE add-on tool, it takes roughly 12,000-13,000 lines of code to ensure security and reliability. With Indigo, it's one line of code. You basically just declare in your code 'make this confidential,' and we do all the heavy lifting behind the scenes through abstraction to secure it with the right protocols.''
Anyway, fact is indeed, that Indigo is all about productivity, yes!
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