Is C# the Only Supported Language for Azure Roles?
The “About the Azure Services Platform and Windows Azure” topic of the current Windows Azure SDK states in its “Compute Service” topic:
A service may be comprised of one or both types of roles. C# is currently the supported language for writing managed code to be deployed as roles. [Emphasis added.]
This document is now in its second edition, at least.
Dave Chappell writes on page 14 of his “Introducing the Azure Services Platform” whitepaper:
Developers are free to use any .NET language (although it’s fair to say that Microsoft’s initial focus for Windows Azure has been on C#). [Emphasis added.]
Despite Dave’s demurrer, the way I read the official SDK tea leaves is: C# is currently the only supported language for writing managed code to be deployed as roles.
Surprisingly, I haven’t heard an outcry about this denigration of Visual Basic from well-known and respected VB proponents, such as Beth Massi, Bill McCarthy, or Julie Lerman.
As a long-time (since VB 1.0’s Professional Extensions, a.k.a. Rawhide) VB user, I object!
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4 comments:
You can certainly use VB.NET and other .NET languages in the cloud already, but the SDK samples and tooling are indeed for C#.
Correction: the tools have templates for both C# and VB.NET.
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Zero VB.Net code.
@Steve Marx,
If that's the case, why is C# "the supported language?"
Perhaps the term "supported language" needs defining.
--rj
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