Re: Is there any hope for Microsoft ?
- From: "Fritz Huber" <fh@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 14:24:15 +0100
Winforms 1.1 dead
Winforms 2.0 ???
Agreed, but:
VCL 1.0 dead
VCL 2.0 dead
...
VCL 2005 dead:
VCL 2006 ???
I'm still successfully using the original (???) VCL, since it does what I
need.
However, we've wasted a lot of time on Winforms 1.1, to get around the
limitations on things like the grid, serial devices, accessing printer
fonts, etc...
We still can't use the Epson Printer Font from .NET 2.0, which means that
receipt printing is either painfully slow or we have to write yet another
dll just for accessing those fonts, which beats the purpose of using .NET in
the first place.
Right now I have to say using .NET in a heavy interop environment was way
more hassle than it was worth, even though the original app was an MFC one.
Plus on the side, customers are already complaining about bad Winforms
performance.
Unfortunately I wasn't in a position to call the shots, otherwise we'd use
native Delphi for rich clients all the way and PHP on the webserver.
..NET might be a nice technology from a developer's perspective, but it
really sucks from the users standpoint.
The only reason for me to use .NET at all is to be able to write games for
the XBox...
.
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