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Nice power-play for the IoT market, especially considering that Microsoft is very much an also-ran at this moment, vis a vis shipping actual Microsoft-licensed code in user binaries in IoT-class devices ..

However, this will not lure me away from PlatformIO and SublimeText, which are perfectly cromulate IoT developer tools ..

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I love platformio too. We have another extension that can be used with platformio. This isn't really documented yet, something I'll be fixing next month. https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/35dbae07-8c1a...

Hrmm, now I'm starting to feel a bit courted here, but alas .. no .. I just will never turn to Microsoft for tooling in the IoT/embedded space.

There is far too much 'bad aji', if you know what that is .. in the way that Microsoft is handling all of this. You are proving a bitter point, for those of us who have been watching for 30 or so years, which is this: Microsoft is still up to its old tricks.

So, no thanks..

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