Well this is the thing: all non-MS companies follow behind by a number of months because MS protects the sales of their development tools in this way. Frankly I think that VS is only just catching up to Delphi 7 in some ways - both as IDE (equi-space controls feature as an example) and in terms of things like intraweb's RAD web development, but who can go without.Net 2 webparts? There are similar features in other languages, when it comes to MS platform the best choice should be an MS IDE and an MS laguage and an MS compiler. The fact that there is a 7MB C# IDE which looks identical to VS2005 does make me wonder though.....
Delphi produces.NET 2 apps through VCL, and virtually all platforms - including Linux - have a VCL compiler. Essentially, write once, compile per platform. IOW halfway between Java (slow and no recompiles necessary) and.NET (native code and locked into the OS).
So the options are probably: no upgrade, get MS to help you upgrade, or use VCL.
There is no doubt that MS is taking the mickey out of us, but frankly when pople pay 500k in licensing for products they can download free, they seem somehow exonerated - but frankly all capitalist entities are there to milk their clients. so....
Well yes it does depend on the project, but even more so on the programmers involved. Memory leaks breaking applications are a visual indication of stupidity, carelessness or timescales that are too tight. GC allows total idiots to masquerade as anything they like from systems programmer to xyz expert. The problem then is that although their code works (with the help of GC) it probably does not perform the correct function. I cannot begin to say how many financial reports I have found careless careless mistakes in; did the programmers just get lazy from things like GC? Even at the VS2005 launch I am amazed at the questions that developers are asking: at least 50% do not understand how a forms or web application works: proof of that was the reaction to the security session at DDD in Reading. Managed code, GC & everything else from weed to cola all has friggin advantages & disadvantages. In short: don't climb into the driving seat unless you know what you're doing.
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Well if his developers had wanted future-proofing they should have used C++ on Linux. The original write-once, compile-anywhere solution. :oP
Well this is the thing: all non-MS companies follow behind by a number of months because MS protects the sales of their development tools in this way. Frankly I think that VS is only just catching up to Delphi 7 in some ways - both as IDE (equi-space controls feature as an example) and in terms of things like intraweb's RAD web development, but who can go without .Net 2 webparts? There are similar features in other languages, when it comes to MS platform the best choice should be an MS IDE and an MS laguage and an MS compiler. The fact that there is a 7MB C# IDE which looks identical to VS2005 does make me wonder though.....
Delphi produces .NET 2 apps through VCL, and virtually all platforms - including Linux - have a VCL compiler. Essentially, write once, compile per platform. IOW halfway between Java (slow and no recompiles necessary) and .NET (native code and locked into the OS).
So the options are probably: no upgrade, get MS to help you upgrade, or use VCL.
There is no doubt that MS is taking the mickey out of us, but frankly when pople pay 500k in licensing for products they can download free, they seem somehow exonerated - but frankly all capitalist entities are there to milk their clients. so....
Well yes it does depend on the project, but even more so on the programmers involved. Memory leaks breaking applications are a visual indication of stupidity, carelessness or timescales that are too tight. GC allows total idiots to masquerade as anything they like from systems programmer to xyz expert. The problem then is that although their code works (with the help of GC) it probably does not perform the correct function. I cannot begin to say how many financial reports I have found careless careless mistakes in; did the programmers just get lazy from things like GC? Even at the VS2005 launch I am amazed at the questions that developers are asking: at least 50% do not understand how a forms or web application works: proof of that was the reaction to the security session at DDD in Reading. Managed code, GC & everything else from weed to cola all has friggin advantages & disadvantages. In short: don't climb into the driving seat unless you know what you're doing.