That’s cool - do you have webinars frequently? Is there a link to a schedule somewhere?
@jpdp haha no they certainly wouldn’t. But it was the first comparison that came to mind. Azure is about internet scale. It’s designed to take pretty much any technology you want, and let you build internet scale systems with it. Azure has over 3000 pre-packed open source VMs you can use, and the best selection of high quality Platform As A Service offerings of any cloud provider.
We focus on being a platform that lets you use what you know how to use. To that end, we make sure that whatever services we offer will perform the best from small scale to large scale. for example, all of the London Olympics, and World Cup Soccer (football) streaming media were delivered by Azure.
The biggest (first) choice should really be “understand your (clients) need” then choose the right tools. I have been through Xamarin University, I have spent 5 years as a native Object-C developer, and of course I love the DevExtreme tools. Be flexible, do your homework, look at the ongoing costs, think of the learning curve, understand your audience, understand the platforms, understand the devices.
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Wiith the Cross Platform push that Microsoft has been going through lately, has there been any talk about possible free developer editions of the Windows Server? Something like Dreamspark, but for a wider audience.
I’ve worked in C# in the past and I’ve loved it, but I’m not a Windows fan. I don’t think I would have a problem deploying to Windows, but as it sits I don’t have any versions of that I could test on. I’m excited (and hopeful) to have that world open back up to me with vNext.
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Yes, we love debugging in Visual Studio. We can remotely debug web sites running in Azure, and remotely debug on Android, iOS, and of course Windows Devices.
lol
Yes the joy of a successful “Hello World” is fleeting.
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@meaghan_miller yes, I present regularly on different platforms, this year my focus is WPF, ASP.NET, Mobile (Xam and DevExtreme) you can always see what is coming up at www.devexpress.com/webinars you will notice a DevExtreme & Azure Mobile Services coming up soon too 
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HI @mawburn I can’t say if there will be a free version of Windows Server, I don’t know if they are thinking about that. We do offer Visual Studio Community Edition for free, but it’s not the full MSDN like you get with DreamSpark, or BizSpark.
C# is a great language to know. it is becoming the cross platform language of choice now that we open sourced the compiler, and the core .NET framework. It’s a first class language in Unity 3D for game development and it’s a first class language in Xamarin for cross platform mobile app development.
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Learn XAML people 
(and C#)
As of last November unless your talking about something else
Ninja’d
not quite, but XAML is featuring in more platforms, WPF, Xamarin and more…This entire conversation makes me think devs are silly if they create an app using any other means!
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@mawburn As an aside, remember that Windows 10 will be a free upgrade to anything running Windows 7 or above for the first year after release. If you have an older machine lying around that can run Windows 7, slap it on there and upgrade it to Windows 10, then you can use that for testing of most scenarios.
If you have truly server-side components that require more than IIS and SQL Express, it may be tough, but the VS developer tools come with pretty much everything you need to test code that will run server-side.
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Any silly devs care to respond to this?
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So one thing that I don’t like about XAML is that there doesn’t seem to be any visual design IDE’s? Is this right? Or should real developers only ever use code?
That’s so awesome - love the free upgrade - brilliant