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I knew this was going to get downvotes, but come on, doesn't this seem to anyone else just a little bit desperate on Microsoft's part?

They're giving out bad advice to sell bad tools. I'm a little disheartened it's got so much attention on here.

Have you used VS? What's your basis for dismissing it as a "bad tool"?

Yes, I spent a year using VS full-time for .NET development, and I think it's a ridiculously contrived way of developing Django applications.

Hence the promotional 'articles' like this from Microsoft.

My goodness, a whole year.

People bitch and moan about Microsoft being closed off from the rest of the development community, then when they offer the rest of the development community a way to use VS to write in their language of choice, they get this crap.

A lot of what Microsoft does is shit, but the constant and pointless anti-MS circle jerking is ridiculous.

Grow up. I'm not bitching and moaning, nor am I anti-MS. I told you I worked with MS languages.

I just think this is a crap way of doing Django. Just like developing Silverlight apps in VIM would be.

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