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by kevingadd 4957 days ago
Judging by Microsoft's recent choices to kill .NET-based products like XNA and Silverlight it seems to be the case that management aren't fans of it anymore. Dropping support for XNA is particularly mysterious given Microsoft's struggles to get game developers to support Windows 8 - they literally had a dedicated community of game developers that could have put titles on the Windows 8 store on day 1 if Microsoft had provided any support. Instead, even game developers with titles being published by MS are stuck using MonoGame for Windows 8 support. It's insane.
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Yes, plenty of C# developers were shafted over the changes to the infrastructure. I'm ignoring the "Metro" Apps for now, most of what I do is either server, web or a "real desktop" application. (Not to mention lots of CRUD corporate projects.)