I've studied .NET for several years now, but I've never built a full app it in, primarily because my main customer (the State of Colorado) is NOT interested. The ONLY reason I can ever see using NET is if a customer demands it. That hasn't happened so far, but it is the reason I try to keep somewhat up to date on the technology. I feel .NET is unnecessarily complex and offers little advantage for the kind of work I do. I have a Delphi database app of about 40,000 lines which I began to port to NET in C# and discovered that the VS 2006 environment generated 42,000 lines of code just to connect to my database. How is that an advantage? On top of that, I find the VS environment somewhat clumsy, the compiler is dreadfully slow and the Help is not very helpful. And, as others have pointed out, it's still COM underneath. Unfortunately, I don't see CodeGear keeping up, since they're still targeting .NET 1.1. So, I'm using D7 and BDS'06 for Windows work and VS to continue my contemplation of .NET. Personally, I hope that is all I will need to do with it for some time to come.
Terry Robinson Colorado Division of Wildlife Roaring Judy Hatchery 14131 Highway 135 Almont, CO 81210 970-641-0190 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
