ASP.NET

[Dasein Fiasco]

I was wondering if anybody around here programs with ASP.NET. As far as I can tell, there's a distinct lack of PBBG development there, probably because LAMP development seems cheaper*, PHP has a gentler learning curve than .NET, and the amount of free scripts available for PHP is much larger (though that's slowly beginning to change).

I'm curious because I'll be releasing my game (which is an ASP.NET application) as a FOSS project and was trying to judge just how much or little use this would be to the PBBG community at large.

* although LAMP is usually cheaper, you _can_ get an MS-sponsored asp.net site hosted for free, visual web dev (the IDE) is free, the .NET libraries are free, and SQL Server Express is free, although MS is still inseparably associated with $$$ is most people's minds.

[beam]

There are a few games that use ASP, like mechreign.com. There's just not many games with it because ASP games are only made by people who know ASP and then discover PBBG's, none of the new developers are told to even try ASP. Look at the getting started board: every single time someone asks "What should I do?" they get ten replies telling them to get Apache and PHP.

[Dasein Fiasco]

LET THIS BE A SIGNPOST, then, for all who would dare the vast waters of the Microsoft ecosystem. FUD abounds, but the rewards are great. Microsoft does a lot of things wrong, but they sure do go out of their way to support developers and it shows in their frameworks and tools.

At the very least, I'm hoping my codebase will prove instructional. I'm absolutely open to contributions and feedback of any sort. NOTE: Aphelion Trigger is not supposed to be a generic game engine. It is a game first, and FOSS second.

Anyway, good points all, beam - the climate of PBBGs as they stand is a pervading dominance of PHP. I'm going to do what little I can to try and change that, though, because I think ASP.NET is a great way to learn development, especially for those just learning to program who are probably running a Windows system anyway.

[Chris]

Server Error in '/' Application.
A connection was successfully established with the server, but then an error occurred during the login process. (provider: Shared Memory Provider, error: 0 - No process is on the other end of the pipe.)
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: A connection was successfully established with the server, but then an error occurred during the login process. (provider: Shared Memory Provider, error: 0 - No process is on the other end of the pipe.)

Source Error:

An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.

That's why I hate all Microsoft technologies. If this was PHP I could at least see what the site is about.