C# delivers fast executing and responsive graphical apps. The .Net
intermediate language (MSIL) is compiled to a native .EXE on the first run.
There is a once off delay, and then all is well. I don't see why Sun can't
do the same with Java...
US $18 gets you a beta CD from Microsoft.
If you know anyone who gets MSDN they will have got the beta in the last
shipment (we got ours!).
Take the warning to install only on a 'non production' machine seriously -
applications like Office don't work properly once it is installed (sigh).
It requires Windows 2000.
I would view C# (and by extension the .Net architecture) as a Windows
platform only. Although capable of being ported to other operating systems,
any such venture is speculation only and has not been confirmed. Short of
Microsoft being broken up or Linux succeeding, I cannot see any advantage
Microsoft can gain by porting it...
Further, expect the final cut only around the beginning of next year...
Martin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Derricutt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, 4 January 2001 1:53 p.m.
> To: Multiple recipients of list Delphi
> Subject: RE: [DUG]: Is Delphi dead?
>
>
> On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Patrick Dunford wrote:
>
> > What "advantages" does C# offer? it is targeted at the
> Internet - not
> > at desktops. Try comparing it to Java - which is the
> environment that
> > MS is targeting with .NET - not desktop environments !
>
> I've been avoiding this thread, but I thought I'd ask
> something here, Java
> is SLOW and hell for graphical apps with Swing, how fast
> does/will C# work
> in a graphical environment? If it delivers fast executing,
> and responsive
> graphical apps, it may just be better than Java for alot of things.
>
> I understand MS is getting Corel to develop .net for Linux,
> but I'm not
> sure to what capacity that is for, weathers its for running .net
> applications or what.
>
> And on the subject of .net and C#, someone here mntioned a
> betakit? Is
> this publically available? I'd love to have a look at the C#
> language in
> action and see just how good it is to develop in etc. etc.
>
> At work we're looking at porting to Java for cross platform stuff, but
> should we look at C# and .Net?
>
> Mark
>
>
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