Thursday, July 2, 2009

Visual Studio Magazine

Is now the number one most useless trade magazine published. It had been marginal at best up until it’s merger with Redmond Developer news, since the merger it has become utter garbage. The majority of the magazine is comprised of advertisements and very little in the way of articles. The commentary in articles is always that of a select group of perceived industry “heavy weights” who are in fact industry has-bens. These are the same people that crippled VB.Net from it’s inception and convinced hundreds of developers to stick with VB 6. Now the extol the virtues of the .Net framework and their pet technology in articles that are at best two pages long and absolutely worthless. All in an effort to keep relevant and sell you books and training.

If you’re considering a subscription to this magazine, do your self a favor and skip it.

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