Hi Andrew, (i hope i strike the right comical note below) Ah flaming! (whirling torchlight).
Am Dienstag, 30. September 2003 10:30 schrieb A J Martin: > Quoted from: > > http://www.windowsforms.net/whitepaper/whywindowsforms.aspx > > Microsoft Windows� Forms is the set of classes in the .NET Framework that > enables the rapid development of powerful smart client applications. Its > benefits include: > > a.. > Extending the Microsoft Visual Basic� rapid application development > experience to all of the programming languages supported by the .NET > Framework (more than 20). > My personal VB-expert is Gregg and he says REBOL beats it. So it beats every other language then! ;) > a.. > Providing developers with rich, powerful, extensible libraries for > user-interface controls and graphics. > An Andrew Martin on this list needed as much lines with "using" as i would for the whole viewer! ;) > a.. > Providing dramatically improved support for localization, printing, > layout, and usability. > localisation. hum. i could plug my %translate.r in, but nobody noted it, so i plug it out. printing, it works with a browser. btw a spreadsheet uses VB as its storage-format, so it can be generated as text and imported in excel as macro. something similar to file ms-word with letters? > a.. > Making it easy for developers to tie XML Web services into their smart > client applications. > AFAIK one can ask "which smart client applications" quite successfully currently? > a.. > Dramatically reducing total cost of ownership through "no-touch" > deployment, which eliminates "DLL hell" and makes it possible for smart > client applications to be deployed and updated using a remote Web server. > I am confused. I could swear thats arguments with which Steve sells all this ios-servers to .net-users?! except he shows it and does not use words like "dramatically". ;) > > It reminds me of the promise of Rebol, but seems to deliver. :-/ > it seems it seems. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said they offer 60day-trial-servers for ios, and after this 60 days they make the deal. everytime. didn't say how much that is. but gave me the feeling REBOL/IOS delivers its promises quite a bit. ;) while looking for smart client applications with plugin-services - wait, wasn't there watson or something? but that was on apple.- (me starts grumbling about apple sherlocking their independend killer-apps, pointing vagualy at osnews somewhere, walking grumbling away) > Andrew J Martin ;) -Volker -- To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject.
