Justin, With regard to a CFML engine running on .NET, New Atlanta has a BlueDragon .NET edition <http://www.newatlanta.com/products/bluedragon/index.cfm> that does exactly that. -Carl V.
On 3/12/2013 2:07 PM, Justin Scott wrote: >> For those of u on this list that have experience with both, can I >> please get your feedback on the Pros and Cons of going to the >> .NET framework from ColdFusion? > Hi Dave, that will depend on what you're doing with it. I don't have > anything against .NET and have done some coding with it. The biggest > headache about .NET is that it's a fully object-oriented language and > everything is based around that. It's a lot harder to throw something > together quickly with .NET than it is with ColdFusion. If you're > building large well-designed applications that will be OO from the > beginning regardless of the language, then it's mostly a matter of > syntax. .NET has a wealth of libraries behind it, but navigating that > world is on-par with Java in complexity (strong typing, lots of long > paths to method calls, etc.). CF is more akin to PHP in that regard. > > Not to get too far off-topic, but I'd be happy to see a project like > OpenBD or Railo that created a CFML engine on top of .NET rather than > Java so that we could just switch the engine out and say "okay, we're > doing .NET" now, wink wink." > > If you're doing simple web applications, .NET may just get in the way > and add time and complexity that isn't needed. If you're doing PDF > generation, I haven't seen anything that beats the simplicity of > CFDOCUMENT (though it has its limitations). > > So, as with anything in IT... it depends. But as has already been > mentioned, switching platforms just because someone read an article in > a magazine about something another company did is pretty > short-sighted. > > > -Justin > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:354951 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
