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by NicoJuicy 4378 days ago
.Net developer here.

I think VS is really awesome and a + for .Net . The support for Mono and cross platform has grown and Microsoft has shown interests by partnering with the team behind Mono..

IIS is getting decaprecated (= The OWIN project).

LocalDB doesn't require you to create a new database and you really have a json file as database . You can just use it, it's called Biggy and it's on GitHub ( https://github.com/robconery/biggy ). (a file based document store). - i used it and it works. - It's actually more then a file based db, but check it out if you're interested.

Git support is build-in (already a long time) and TFS seemed to work for me ( i use Visual Studio Online).

Using Windows, well. I think this is "currently" a no-brainer. But Mono will be more important, so it should become usable on Linux also... (normally). Btw. I use Linux tools on my Windows machine all the time, stuff like Cygwin,ImageMagick, Go, Ruby are installed by default on my development pc.... It doesn't mean i can't work in Linux (i also have a Pi which requires me to work in it). Currently, i just prefer Windows

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> IIS is getting decaprecated (= The OWIN project)

Thats not even remotely true. How does Helios works then, which is also owin component?

Perhaps decaprecated is a strong word, using IIS becomes optional thanks to OWIN would be better.

OWIN replaces the hosting part of IIS, so while you will always be able to run Asp.Net websites on IIS, IIS isn't a requirement anymore. (OWIN = Open Web Interface for .NET)

See the following link for a more thorough answer.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21308585/when-should-i-us...

Or http://www.dotnetcurry.com/showarticle.aspx?ID=915

Project Katana is a collection of projects for supporting OWIN (http://owin.org) with various Microsoft components. So yes, that obviously uses IIS. But IIS can be replaced by Apache or NGINX in the near future. Katana could be used as an example to implement the same thing for those webservers.