Re: DevExpress & D8

From: Derek Davidson (derek.davidson_at_REMOVEenterpriseblue.co.uk)
Date: 05/30/04 

Date: 30 May 2004 11:27:59 -0700

richard morris wrote:

> It really is ironic hearing people complain about Devex support for
> .NET, since we were the first vendor anywhere (VCL, ActiveX, ASP,
> anyone) to support .NET.

I know and I agree - it is somewhat strange.

>> I thought components written for .NET would work in any .NET
>> language?

> We are doing it because customers have asked us to give them a
> solution so they could compile the same code and get both a managed
> and a native application just like the Delphi literature promises

Kudos to you. Your concern for your customers does you credit.

> Thus it's a big effort we are making for those few
> developers who say they needed this feature. I hope they appreciate
> that ;)

Well, if they didn't know then, they sure do now <g>

>> That being the case, DevExpress' current .NET components should
>> work fine in D8.

> After the second patch they do.

Glad to read that. 

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