> VS. I must admit VS has left behind Delphi some years ago and I doubt if > the > new developments of Delphi will cause it to catch up... If they'll allow > to > mix C++ and Delphi code, or better abandon DCU altogether and allow to mix > Delphi and code created with VS, it would be even more interesting.
VS has some nice features, but WinForms is still clunky and slow. The object model is no better and often worse although DataSets/DataTables/DataViews are much better. C# being case sensitive along with some other very annoying traits bugs me to no end. I have been working in VS since 2005 and Delphi since version 1 and can honestly say Delphi is still the better WinForm development tool. Although Blend and WPF are powerful and very cool. When I need to write a web app, I don't even hesitate to pop it out in C#, but I still dislike the language syntax along with some other annoying dotNet issues. Delphi may have lost its relevance to mainstream coding and certainly is a niche development environment, but it is still a great tool that has a respect for its long in the tooth developers and still hasn't pulled the rug out from underneath us unlike MS. MS has a habit of constantly revising their languages and object models forcing constant and often unnecessary upgrades. Imagine if you had a few million lines in VB code when dotNet hit... ouch. __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> [email protected] http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk
