Re: Compact vs. Regular .NET

From: Jan Mitrovics (mitrovics_at_web.de)
Date: 05/06/04 

Date: 5 May 2004 16:07:05 -0700

Juan Jimenez wrote:

> I can see this subject is not going anywhere until you become aware
> of where the PDA and handheld technology has been and where it is
> going...
>
> > I think you're still missing the point. PDAs are not little
> > laptops.
>
> No, Jim, that is not the right way to put that. They are **not yet**
> little laptops.
>
> > And laptops still lag behind desktop systems (if you consider the
> > cutting edge in both).
>
> No, they do not. It's just a matter of how much you want to pay to be
> able to lug technology that fits easily in a desktop. The technology
> itself is not lagging.

PDA are only one part of the .Net strategy and the CF.

What is important from my point of view, is that the CLR and .Net will
allow to write code for many different devices and applications,
ranging from Desktop PC's, to Servers (e.g. writing stored procedures
in the MS-SQL server), to PDA's, to Smartphones, to other ubiquitious
devices.

All with you favorite tools and programming language (sigh).

For sure you will not be able to deploy one complete application over
the whole range of possible devices, but that's not the point. You
still will be able to make use of quite a lot of your code (business
logic, ...) and your experience.

For example I have written software doing data acquisition and analysis
on a PC (in Delphi). I have done the same application on
microcontroller too (in C). It was a total rewrite from scratch. This
would be much better in the .Net world (I hope...)

Jan

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