There was an original intention for Delphi 8 to do Win32 and .NET compilations from the same source.  However this development was delaying delivery, so the Win32 side of it got put aside, with a promise that this would be release later…  At least is what I was told at one the bug testing sessions…

 

-----Original Message-----
From: James Sugrue [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, 1 July 2004 8:49 a.m.
To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'
Subject: RE: [DUG] Delphi .Net vs Visual Studio .Net and Midas vs .Netremoting

 

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

 

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