Mike, >The other thing, you seem to be making a very judgmental opinion of a technology you haven't even tried. Judge it only if you try it.
If I wrote the statements about speed, do you think I would have done so without trying it ? I have tried it, for numerous projects now, using VB.NET, and it sucks! Plain and simple. I have a machine with 1Gb of memory and it sucks. That is my experience and the experience of my clients. How on earth can you say I didn't try it ? >>A decent developer would make sure that they don't write slow code irrespective of the programming language or platform. You mean I should have coded a simple form with a single button differently ? >>Why? Do you have any experience in .NET to support this argument? Have you seen any .NET commercial stuff? I have done, but you seem to refute any argument I put forward, or any experiences I have put forward as null and void. Quite simply VB.NET for front-end EXE's in my, and my client's opinions, is useless. Maybe C# is different, but it is supposed to use the same architecture/framework, doesn't it ? I can say that I have had one or two other experiences with products from red-gate and it seems to be good, so it must be C# versus VB. Don't forget the problems of targetting different .NET frameworks in future, similar to Java debacles now. Imagine telling a large company (like some of our customers), that to accept our next product/upgrade they must upgrade 800 desktops. I know what they'd tell me to do! >>Look we know that Delphi is good, or was prior to D2005, however at times we have to remove ourselves from this tunnel vision approach I can assure you I do not have tunnel vision. I have never tried to convince my clients to go in a particular direction. I offer the options, they make the choices, I get the work. All fair and balanced. .NET is not, in MY opinion, currently a valid option for VB.NET executables. Regards, Darren -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren McBride Sent: Monday, 23 May 2005 6:38 PM To: 'Delphi-Talk Discussion List' Subject: RE: Ignorance I know you all are having problems with Delphi 2005, but this charge into .NET only seems to be taking hold in the US. Over here in Europe we are a bit more relaxed about adopting this SLOWER technology (and no-one can tell me different), and it is only being adopted for tiny projects in any of my clients at present. We are working with Delphi for the front-end of one of our core products, and based on what I am seeing from .NET during our consultancy projects, you would be all advised to recommed to your clients to take a more reticent and measured approach to the roll-out of .NET for application EXE's. It sucks. I can nearly see the form being painted it is so slow. .NET may be great for middle-tier or web apps, but I prefer to stick to plain old Delphi for EXE's and will do for the next few years. I don't want my clients accusing me of writing slow code!! Delphi 6 will be with me for some time yet. Good luck to those who change over though. Darren __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk
