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i'd love to see a top-to-bottom mvvm dev stack built around webapi and javascript/typescript with a prescribed security model, databinding from client all the way to the database, maybe even html5/javascript "controls" you could drag and drop onto a design surface ala webforms.

@JohnAskew: very cool! good luck to him.

firey moon is nice too... good on him for not being satisfied with boring 4/4 timings.

this project using the excellent naudio library might help http://skypefx.codeplex.com/

i'd love for ableton to support multitouch at least in the session view. it could replace the current control surface market.

1 day ago, BitFlipper wrote

Question: Does anyone think if MS simply kept refining the Windows 7 desktop in Windows 8, and added Metro as a first-class option but not forced on us, that Windows would have sold better or worse?

Exactly this. It's almost like some marketing/MBA-type higher up decided to cram this new UI down everyone's throats in order to leverage Windows desktop dominance into the phone and tablet realm. Maybe he/she was surrounded by people who were afraid to say this was a bad idea. This kind of culture does not produce good software... Did they even look at OSX? Their app store is a desktop application because it's a desktop OS. The desktop shouldn't be an "app" on a desktop OS.

Just FYI, these guys rarely have sales and the .Net tools are top notch.

http://www.jetbrains.com/specials/index.jsp

Cheers.

not bad as a rompler. just imagine as js engines get better, we'll be able to do real-time dsp in the browser.

It's just the context I already know... ASP.Net and IIS with the familiar tooling.

I'm not as interested in writing an entire server from scratch, although I guess it would be a learning experience. Good links.

Is it feasible to JIT compile TypeScript to CLR for HTTP hosting, in say... IIS? Why or why not? Performance? Some other technical detail? Seems like everyone's talking about compiling more and more things to javascript because it's everywhere... but why not the server? It'd be great to be able to reuse models, business logic and validation between the client and the server.

I like what I'm seeing! If nothing else, this could be a great test bed/proving ground for the features MS wants in ECMAScript 6.

The holy grail for me would be to get optional end-to-end data binding of the entire view including 1 > M relationships in the client to/from the web server via command scaffolding. This looks 1 step closer in that direction.