Quote from: nyusternie on January 27, 2013, 03:08:38 PM

Quote from: schalk on January 27, 2013, 10:18:25 AM

http://code.google.com/p/bitcoinsharp/ and http://bitcoincs.codeplex.com/

Also - I don't think it is necessary to have language specific support for bitcoin. There is a lot of information on how bitcoin works on the wiki as well as on http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/

You are right in that it is NOT necessary, but it sure does help. I would guess that you've never dug that deep into the Bitcoin protocol. I have very much respect for anyone who can even understand it. I've dedicated 100+ hours in trying to comprehend all of the crypto-jargon and its been a slow, uphill battle. My point being that if and when you need to customize / tweak your code (for some specific use case), unless you've got some sort of crypto-analyst (is that a real word?) on your team, you may find it hard pressed to achieve your goals.

BTW, the first link you sent is to a library that hasn't been updated since Oct '11 and the second was June '11. I'm sure at some point, someone thought it was a good idea to port that Java code, but it hasn't been touched since. And a .NET (dot net, ASP) search on SE came up quite skimpy (I count 2). I'm very sure there are ample and perfectly good uses for .NET, but Bitcoin is NOT one of them.

actually I have been digging quite deep into the bitcoin protocol, I can tell you now that I have spent a lot more than 100 hours making sense of how the protocol works. Even though Bouncy Castle did make life easy.

What makes a language "good" for bitcoin? .NET does a perfectly good job. I can make the same website in .NET as I can in PHP, in a less amount of time without having to pay for additional software.

(I really don't see the need for requiring bitcoin specific help for .NET when I understand the protocol myself and can implement the code myself. Which I would much rather do anyway, that way I can ensure the code is loosely coupled and I can write unit tests for it)

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Bitcoinsharp and bitcoincs are more of librarys to be used on a desktop and functions as a wallet, and not a connection to bitcoind for web applications.

You are wrong. I have found it quite handy being able to generate bitcoin addresses, as well as using https://blockchain.info/pushtx to push transactions to the network. No need to use a bitcoind.