I believe that in the Win32 world Delphi is the best tool out there and use it for any
Win32 development I do wherever possible.
We are on Software Assurance and MSDN so I
have access to both Delphi 8 and Visual Studio
for .NET development. I have played with both and to be honest, prefer c#. I do
quite a bit of work with ASP.NET and always choose c# over Delphi.
With me it is a matter of taste and the only real difference is the language.
So if you prefer C type syntax ( which I do ) then c#. If you prefer Pascal
then Delphi. The IDE’s are much of a
muchness, but I find Visual Studio to be more snappier.
The best reason I can see for using Delphi 8 would be converting an existing VCL Win32 app to
.NET for whatever reason you would want to do that.
If Borland could make Delphi
into a product that the same code would compile to Win32, .NET and Linux
applications then I think they would have something….
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Dave Jollie
Sent: Wednesday, 30 June 2004 2:19
p.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [DUG] Delphi
.Net vs Visual Studio .Net and Midas vs .Net remoting
Hi all, hope this hasn’t been discussed recently. Just
wondering what people think of the future of Delphi
.Net? Is Delphi 8 attracting developers and
projects, or is Visual Studio .Net slowly pulling everyone away? Is Delphi 8 a viable alternative when going .Net, or will it
go the way of Kylix? I understand there were considerable bugs when Delphi 8 was first released. Is it now stable? What do
those USING Delphi .Net think of it? Are there
those who have dabbled in Delphi .Net and
Visual Studio .Net (C#)? How do they compare? (was one far superior or was it
just a matter of taste?)
One more question – for those who’ve used Midas
/ Datasnap extensively – is .Net remoting superior (if you’ve used
that too)?
Cheers,
Dave
