I agree with your general m$ suspicion but I don't think the analogy is quite right. Borland have changed the structure/format of DFM files a couple of times without changing the Delphi language.
If you have a server written in .net then the change to XAML won't effect you. If you have a client app written in winforms and you want to use the new XAML look and feel then you will have to rewrite your GUI but because we are smart developers we always separate our GUI and business logic anyway ;-) I would agree that m$ didn't put much time into the winforms components. Their visual inheritance still isn't as good as Delphi's. Guy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neven MacEwan Sent: Monday, 18 July 2005 3:27 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: Re: [DUG] Skill shortage? Guy XAML is just a GUI definition language in the same way that Delphi is just a GUI definition language, Though I'm not an expert on XAML look at the Thunderbird email client (our recommend client) which is written in XUL. .net will not die, but it if it is/was the panacea solution why XAML? Given m$ capricious history I could easily see them moving the focus from .net for GUI dev to XAML if they perceived that they could not control .net (ie Mono became a prevalent option for deploying .net apps) because XUL is so developed it would not be worthwhile to change to compete with a johnny come lately I feel sorry for the developers deluded/bullied into the M$ web, on one hand they have got managment droning 'we must use microsoft...' and on the other M$ jerking their chain every couple of years As my friend John would say, 'just keep on using vaseline, it doesn't mean you agree with them, it just makes your life less painfull' Neven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > XAML is just a GUI definition language so I don't see how that means > that m$ is going to kill .net? It might make your current WinForms > solution obsolete but .net as a language & runtime environment is here > to stay. > > Guy > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Wilkin, Kurt > Sent: Saturday, 16 July 2005 1:55 a.m. > To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List > Subject: RE: [DUG] Skill shortage? > > Nah, Sun must be stoked at the number of future Java developers > getting trained by m$ (is there even a Java equivalent of MSDN?) And > m$ have basically committed to killing dotnet with that whole xaml > thing in the future (though it won't look like that when they announce > it - if it ever does eventuate). > > Meanwhile everyone just keeps building better (for various meanings of > 'better') web apps. > > Cheers, Kurt. > > _______________________________________________ > Delphi mailing list > [email protected] > http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > > -- Neven MacEwan (B.E. E&E) Ph. 09 620 1356 Mob. 027 4749 062 New Address Details =================== MWK Computer Systems 1 Taumata Rd Sandringham Auckland Ph 620 1356 Fx 620 1336 _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
