Top 10 .NET Development Tweets that Broke the Internet in 2017

December is a good time to reminisce and enjoy some of the highlights of the year. We look back at the top 10 Twitter posts for .NET developers in 2017.

With 2017 coming to an end, it’s time to reminisce and look back at the top 10 Twitter posts for .NET developers throughout the year. It would be an understatement to say that 2017 was an eventful year for .NET and Windows developers, especially when we look at all the great additions Microsoft teams brought to the scene, such as the new version of Visual Studio 2017, .NET Core, .NET Standard, XAML Standard and the UWP Community toolkit.

Here are the top 10 .NET and Windows tweets that broke the Internet in 2017. Who do you think got the most attention this year? Scott Hanselman? Scott Allen? Erich Gamma? Let's see!

What did you think of these tweets? Would you rank them differently? Let us know by voting underneath each tweet!

10. Peter Marcu

Who wants #vscode and #dotnetcore in here on their #RaspberryPi? I know I do :) pic.twitter.com/uNhWEBnbBy

— Peter Marcu (@PeterMarcu) April 2, 2017

9. Clint Rutkas

Announcing Windows Template Studio, an open-source, community lead VS2017 ext to build UWP apps faster - https://t.co/tEcWkNt0L1 #MSBuild pic.twitter.com/YFQamJkrWM

— Clint Rutkas (@ClintRutkas) May 11, 2017

8. Brian Peek

Welcome to The Sandbox, a new Microsoft Docs site for demos, fun experiments, and playing with new tech. Enjoy! https://t.co/h5YeZJpge3 pic.twitter.com/jOD7CY7BQv

— Brian Peek (@BrianPeek) August 24, 2017

7. Randy Olson

I always thought it was morbid that we call it "killing" a process.#Unix #Linux #Windows #programminghttps://t.co/Z2S3alNpVB pic.twitter.com/U1BhwC8LKm

— Randy Olson (@randal_olson) December 4, 2017

6. Miguel de Icaza

We have open sourced Workbooks: https://t.co/FcdQLPK1Vu pic.twitter.com/3eIeXbIWFT

— Miguel de Icaza (@migueldeicaza) November 15, 2017

5. Scott Hanselman

WOW *deeply* useful API Browser for ALL @DotNet APIs over at @docsmsft https://t.co/Q3BIZ8SiJS #bookmarked. Everyone needs this. pic.twitter.com/tEfalr9peS

— Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) April 5, 2017

4. Immo Landwerth

.NET Standard 2.0 is final! https://t.co/92SCLV22j8

— Immo Landwerth (@terrajobst) August 9, 2017

3. Satya Nadella - Happy Birthday Visual Studio!

Celebrating 20 years of Visual Studio & the launch of #vs2017 designed for any dev to build any app on any platform https://t.co/S2KEvea85m

— Satya Nadella (@satyanadella) March 7, 2017

2. Win De Cleen

Thanks to @martinfowler I can even explain #LINQ to my 5 year old daugther. #csharp. See the excellent article about #collectionpipelines on https://t.co/4K4BDW0HYP pic.twitter.com/YOV2MEIfwp

— Wim De Cleen (@bewidec) November 28, 2017

Honorable mentions

Before we get to the winner, here are a few tweets that just barely didn't make the top 10, but we couldn't skip mentioning.

• DynamicWebPaige

well folks, at least we've settled on a name for my next D&D character pic.twitter.com/tBN222JJFW

— @DynamicWebPaige (@DynamicWebPaige) November 18, 2017

• Karel Zikmund

.NET Core 2.0 hits zero-bug-goal! Yay! (for bugs filed before 5/10) We're in Ask mode until 5/26. For details: https://t.co/IPFx17bEMt

— Karel Zikmund (@ziki_cz) May 16, 2017

• Scott Hunter

Came to work today and this was on my desk. Celebrating moving our 4.7 docs to the new doc platform. https://t.co/PLNh8VCXdy pic.twitter.com/a0p8mR5O2K

— Scott Hunter (@coolcsh) April 12, 2017

• Beth Massi

Whaaaaat!!!??? You haven't downloaded #vs2017 yet? Dooooo it!! https://t.co/lEUrY1jqJq pic.twitter.com/z6wT6kTSqo

— Beth Massi (@BethMassi) March 8, 2017

• Jon Galloway 

Okay, I was expecting a bit of grumpy snark at #dotnetfringe but it's just one big open source hippie hug fest & I wish it was 3 weeks long.

— Jon Galloway: Game of The Year Edition (@jongalloway) June 6, 2017

And the winner is...

1. Paul Stamatiou

when you only tested on localhost pic.twitter.com/xacNpcGFvf

— Paul Stamatiou 📷 (@Stammy) April 21, 2017

Is there any tweet that you think should have made the list but didn’t? Well then, share it in the comment section below.

Closing words

To close it off where I started, the .NET Framework has evolved quite a lot in 2017 and it's definitely an exciting time to be a .NET developer. It's interesting to see how these changes and new additions will shape the industry in 2018 and so we decided to huddle our Developer Experts to share their thoughts on the State of .NET in 2018 in this whitepaper. Make sure to check it out. 

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