To Bill - It _probably_ means, that the Mi programmers have designed a .Net "wrapper" over the original dll's of the mapinfo core. Then they will change the MapBasic interpreter to execute .net calls instead of directly calling the MI dll's. Well, the MB interpreter is already slow as a glacier in the middle of the winter, so the performance hit in using .net compared to directly calling the dll's is insignificant.. :\
What I'm interested in is the .net wrapper. This wrapper can be used by other, much faster, languages than MB. On another node.. Am I the only person, that finds it ironic that MiCorp _now_ is busy converting MapInfo Pro (a program, that started as a multi platform application) into a 100 % Windows only program, while the rest of the world tentatively is looking at other desktop solutions than the Windows platform ?? regards Bo Thomsen GeoConsult I/S Denmark -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Bill Thoen [mailto:bthoen@;gisnet.com] Sendt: 18. oktober 2002 00:46 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: Re: MI-L MapInfo and .NET Explained [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What I'm (still) is missing is some information about the MapInfo Pro 8.0 > .Net implementation from the developers viewpoint: Objects, Methods, > Properties. As Lars V. Nielsen has mentioned in a previous mail, there is a > huge difference in the current "table" based approa ch in MapInfo and more > "CAD with GIS" centric approach in MapX. What's the new Mi-Pro 8.0 approach > regarding the object model ?? Will it be a MapX Plus ?? Will it be an > entirely different object model than MapX ?? > Moshe Binyamin (of MapInfo) told me that ver 8 will still work with MapBasic programs. They are planning on improving the code interpreter to translate old mbx into .NET calls. I'm still a bit vague on how this will work (or even if I understand it correctly), but I don't think MapBasic developers need to worry about ver. 8. Of course, the writing's on the wall, so I guess we better study up on MS Visual Studio .NET and XML. What little I know now of .NET does seem interesting, but like it or not, it's a Microsoft world. Resistance is futile. -- - Bill Thoen ------------------------------------------------------------ GISnet, 1401 Walnut St., Suite C, Boulder, CO 80302 tel: 303-786-9961, fax: 303-443-4856 mailto:bthoen@;gisnet.com, http://www.gisnet.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 3639
