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Richard.Hein wrote:

Angelfire said:
"I understand that was not the intention but as devs it's scary to watch automation carry into the things that used to once be the soul domain of devs and architects ..... the stuff that put food on our tables.... Lets just  hope that the intended use is more often the case than the potential miss use......"


Automation is your friend!

It's way too late to turn back the hands of time; not to sound so melodramatic, but think about Ruby on Rails and Django, etc..., this is just the next step in web development and vital for .NET developers to compete.

I have already used BLINQ to generate a large website.  The code is amazingly small and understandable to anyone who knows ASP.NET 2.0 and LINQ.  I have never seen better than BLINQ personally, including Rails. 

However it is still up to developers to work against that to meet all the business requirements - the pages are far from done is most cases.  That's still a lot of work.  Now you can focus on business programming, instead of technology programming, however.

I am just waiting for LINQ to be released to use it in earnest.

good interview and kewl tech.... My only concern is that some DBA somewhere will get the idea that they are all of a sudden a dev and BLINQ might end up becoming someone's solution to a business problem..... while that sounds great for the DBA's I can see me having a hard time explaining to the customer that after the magic from BLINQ that we aren't done yet....... excellent example tool but i see potential for abusing it.... plus i just watched a console app escentially do my job (ouch)......

I understand that was not the intention but as devs it's scary to watch automation carry into the things that used to once be the soul domain of devs and architects ..... the stuff that put food on our tables.... Lets just  hope that the intended use is more often the case than the potential miss use......

As an ASP/ASP.Net dev i'm in the class that still wants a few things to be a mystery to rest of the world where just asking /? doesn't give all the answers....

hope that didn't all come off too negative, I just would like to know if this is the kind of stuff that gets talked about when things like this become reality?....

Pablo [MSFT] wrote:


August...we're almost there. You'll hear the noise when we put the stuff out there

-pablo

See now it all makes sense.... hopefully now this means that in the future this kind of stuff will be made clearer upfront....good job explaining the differences.

LaBomba wrote:

He really cares about this place, just as much as the people who built it.

I was so excited about MCML from my first post I forgot to mention the thing i heard Charlie say that still kinda leaves me wanting more from MCE..... 

MCE only supports 2 tuners each for NTSC and HD.... This kinda leaves me hanging.... Its not inconceavable(sp?) to consider the notion of a MCE Server (especially now with x360 extender power)... having more than 2 tuners of any type running and recording television from all over.....

I see it as a limitation that could  be avoided.... support for at least 4 tuners of any one type (8 in total) would be far more superior... with the hundreds of channels available to anyone now adays its not hard to believe there could be 3+ shows on TV at the same time that i may want to watch..... would also allow for better overlapping recording.....

if say I'm recording a TV movie that starts @ 5 and ends @ 7 (5-7) and i want to also record CSI @6 (6-7)  and i like to record the 6'oclock news @ 6

at the moment I can't  record all these programs and watch them later unless at least one of them is broadcast in HD over the air..... And i most certainly can't be watching live TV at all in that scenario

now if I had an MCE server in a home with 4 people (mom, dad, 2 kids) its also not hard to consider that as a whole they may all want to record more just 2 shows at once.... Also if you are watching live TV at the time you can only record 1 other program..... with lots of people wanting to be on the centralized media experience that becomes almost impossible....

Plus with the hauppauge PVR 500MCE its not hard to get 4 tuners in 2 PCI slots...

just a thought guys