Maybe Microsoft isn’t totally useless on the web, after all
Posted by: admin in Business and PoliticsI admit that Microsoft’s software wouldn’t be my first choice for building a web application, but a small consultancy decided to give it a whirl with its Meet with Approval application. As is often the case with Microsoft (to its credit and shame), its tools took care of the heavy lifting of writing code:
Visual Studio provides a number of prebuilt web controls that we were able to drag and drop onto our pages and granted us to get a considerable way before having to write any code. A criticism of this approach is that such controls output bad HTML or restrict design however we didn’t find this. We were impressed by the way in which .NET produced relatively little code and we were able to apply all styling via CSS. Visual Studio 2008 offers a full WYSIWYG editor with CSS support that we found to be superior than Dreamweaver even though we did find rendering problems within the IDE when coding for cross browser CSS.
So, pluses and minuses. But what about the end result?
Pretty good, according to the developers and according to a swift review of the site. That said, plenty of critics have weighed in suggesting that the same results could be had more affordably and in a more sustainable fashion using open-source tools.
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