Survey Time: What .NET Framework features do you use?
UPDATE: This survey is closed. For two reasons actually. First, we got just 3500 responses in less than a day, so that's good. The bad part is that these survey guys (whom I paid, BTW) deleted the survey and my account without asking. Fortunately I got the data out in an export before this happened. Sheer luck. I bet there were upwards of 5000 responses. Very unprofessional and disappointing. I'd have appreciated a heads up from them. Next time I'll just use Survey Monkey. I'll publish the results after I fancy-chart them in Excel.
Thanks to everyone for participating!
UPDATE 2: Not sure what's up with these guys, but the survey is back up, so I'll keep collecting data for a few more days.
Hey folks, as I've said before, one of the things I like to do is take your comments, questions and feedback directly to the right folks inside Microsoft.
They have all sorts of scientific methods, analysts, and smarties that give them information, usage details, etc. Sometimes, however, I like to throw the product planners the occasional totally RAW web survey, just to make sure that there's fewer layers between me and the bosses.
That said, please take 10 seconds and fill out this ONE QUESTION SURVEY. Feel free to tweet it on Twitter, forward it to your friends, or blog it.
http://www.tinyurl.com/dotnetsurvey (here's the FULL URL)
Yes, the survey is missing things. It's a survey about larger framework subsystems, not languages, not Silverlight, etc. You'll see. It's still very useful to me and others.
I'd like to get 2500 responses before I give it to the bosses. Any less doesn't really seem like a lot, you know?
I'll blog the results later! Thanks.
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I wonder what the results will show and whether there can be any way to identify those organisations who are simply slow to adopt newer technologies as opposed to outright refusing to consider them...
I must say that I'm not able to catch up with Microsoft technologies recently. I use only ASP.NET WebForm + AJAX + ASMX + WinForm. Been playing with LINQ and Silverlight, but only a little.
I agree with Phil on his comment. MVC, LINQ, Cardsapce, and Silverlight and other stuff are cool, but we can't find a place to put them in.
I personally don't see the benefits of MVC for myself yet. I already got a simple & fast DAL libary that I'm confortable with, though not as powerful as LINQ to SQL, of course. I'm reluctant to use Silverlight due to the fact that not so many have Silverlight installed. And some initial comments on my site say people don't like to use Cardspace either, Live Services is a better option.
Does that help? (Okay, I actually did take the survey and answer "for real.") :-)
Missing "None" or even an open text field "Others"
Sorry, but I use none of the available features in the pole, but rather their respective OSS equivalents. (MonoRail over WebForms/MVC, NHibernate over EF/L2Sql, etc.)
so under Others I would have filed things like, maybe, System.dll, System.Core.dll
[] I'm on .NET, but use none of the above
Any chance that you would publish the results of that survey?
Miguel.
I use datareaders a lot. And datarepeaters. Everything else goes clunk. I try to run screaming on any big pages when it comes to Viewstate, and if I have to, I will put Viewstate on the server. Viewstate works ok for small stuff.
Parvenu - I've updated the post to include the full URL.
Anyway, it's not letting me submit without any of hte boxes checked.
I'll go eat my icecream now :)
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