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Telerik ha appena rilasciato un convertitore online per codice da VB.NET e C#, disponibile anche come snippet… provare per credere.

Dice, Scott Bellware e sottoscrivo completamente:

…it’s a social welfare program for people who have outlived their purpose and who are willing to trade society’s access to reasonable software for the their access to jobs that they no longer have either the courage or skill for.
How can anyone with a lick of sense at Redmond have ever looked at Vista and seen anything more than a collection of poorly integrated side-effects of too many obsolescing execs trying to mark their territory. What can we expect of a piece of software that isn’t much more than the result of a herd of self-interested old farts pissing on the same piece of ground?
Microsoft simply isn’t in the business of making software anymore. It’s only in the business of being in business. Pretending to be a software company is just a front.
Oh to be president of the board for just one day…
I’m trying to get a free PDF printer installed on Vista… What was I thinking? Everyone knows that this kind of functionality is only available in some distant future science fiction version of Vista… or Windows XP. I think I’m about to become a lover of antiques… or Macs.
Say your prayers Vista… your days before the XP re-install on my machine are numbered.

… e anche io sono nella stessa situazione:

months ago I bought a macbook pro and a copy of Parallels. I switched because Vista is junk. I live in OS X and work in XP inside of Parallels. I have had absolutely zero problems with developing native win32, .NET, and T-SQL with XP running on a virtual machine. It is really the best of both worlds. You should check it out.