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We also have gone to Delphi 8 and actively
developing in it for all new dev projects..
I find it as good as Visual Studio .NET, however it would like the ability
to target different platforms e.g. WinCE etc devices… -----Original Message----- I work
colleague has a friend who’s been in Delphi since Delphi 1. He recently
moved to Visual Studio .Net and finds it far superior. He said he’d never
go back to Delphi. But I like what you suggest James – a Delphi which
compiles to Win32, .NET and Linux. Maybe then we wouldn’t lose Delphi. I
guess it all depends on what secret agreements Borland has with M$ and whether
they’re allowed to continue developing Delphi long-term. Also, how Delphi
8 sales go – if everyone goes .NET and chooses C#, then Delphi sales will
dry up. On the
positive side, I’ve heard of a company on the North Shore (Auckland) who
have chosen to go with Delphi 8 and are actively developing in it. Hopefully
they’re not the only ones. -----Original Message----- 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 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 |
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