Re: Advantages of Delphi.NET

From: Daniel Becroft (djcbecroft_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/19/04 

Date: 19 Aug 2004 00:39:30 -0700

Sinan Karaca [MimarSinan] wrote:

> I wanted to provide a "case study" based on my experiences using Delphi 7&8
> in tandem.
>
> 1) Using Delphi.NET, I was able to start coding for the .NET platform
> immediately. Without learning a single new thing about .NET. I used VCL.NET,
> of course.
> 2) As the need arose, I started working with .NET classes and learning
> them - the rest was handled by VCL and the other FX that Delphi provides.
> This made the learning curve very, very smooth.
> 3) All my expertise and knowledge on the Win32 API, I leveraged with
> P/Invoke. While it is a valid charge that my code won't run on Mono, I
> really don't care. I am targeting .NET FX 1.1 on Windows. It will be years
> before Mono and/or other .NET implementations come close to the
> behavior/stability offered by M$ on the Windows .NET FX. Although M$
> presents .NET as a new platform, I tend to see it as a new framework -
> nothing more.

One thing to note, though, is that the Microsoft Windows implementation is the only one that
Microsoft allows you to use commericially. As far as I know, the EULA for Project Rotor does not
allow commerical use. And of course, no other implementation can (at the moment) come close to
Microsoft, since they have had at least 5 years to write their implementation and test it, whereas
the .NET specs were only released a couple of years ago, weren't they?

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