I think I will be waiting for the RTM release. It is looking pretty good though. I am very rarely coding .net these days. Spend all my time lately on iOS and Android applications. Objective-C and Java respectively.
It is actually ridiculous how spoiled we are with Visual Studio. After a few months I have discovered that Eclipse and Xcode suck so much! lol
Tried to use EF code first for a very simple thing – literally a one-page signup form with ~30 fields. After the 2nd WTF (unbounded text fields map to NVARCHAR(128)???) I gave up and went back to good old fashioned ADO.NET.
I looked into that before and from what I understand you need a Mac so I discounted it altogether.
If it could emulate the target device as well as compile for it then it would make more sense. I could be wrong about the whole thing though, does it actually run in Visual Studio?
It lets you write your droid or iOS software in C# which then compiles as a native app. I’d guess you can at least write parts in VS, though you will definitely need a mac to do iOS stuff as it is still compiling objective-c at the end of the day.
I swear, people give Microsoft crap all the time, especially the Linux/PHP folks. Yet, at the same time, iHype Corp is far more closed-source then M$, as the Kool-Aid drinkers would say. Hypocrites if you ask me. I would never by a $10,000 iHype computer, just to build apps for a falling market-share, know as an IPhone. At least with Android I can use an economical PC and an actually good programming language.