[email protected] wrote:
> 1. The program will run "off line for a limited time" and then want
> to go to Microsoft for updating.
.NET itself does not auto-update. It is included in Windows Update, so
is potentially updated every second Tuesday of the month, but, in my
experience, is only rarely updated; IE accounts for a much higher volume
of updates.
You can set updating to manual and select only the desired updates. The
only real problem with that is that you have to be very careful where
you go on the internet, to avoid getting infected by malware that
exploits the bugs fixed by the updates.
It is relatively slow, but part of that is the result of the general
software bloat which strives to cancel out Moore's law. I should be
faster than purely interpreted versions of Visual Basic, as it uses just
in time compiling to produce optimised code when it is run.
There are non-Windows implementations of Common Language Runtime, the
underlying technology, although these do tend to be rather slow, as they
only do a shallow translation to machine code
None of this should indicate that I wouldn't prefer open source C code.
It is very unlikely that code re-written for .NET will get rewritten, by
its original authors, for any older technology.
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