Re: Targetting VB developers

Bruce McGee wrote:

Oh, you mean market to them. For a second I pictured you in a clock
tower. :)

<blush>
I guess my Freudian slip is showing ;-)

I keep going on (and on) about how much I love that my code doesn't
break with every new Delphi release and how it's even compatible
(language and VCL) between Win32 and .Net versions. I have to think
this would be attractive to the Visual Fred crowd.

Yeah, that point occurred to me after I posted. I figured it would come
up in the conversation, and was correct in anticipating it would be you
to bring it up first. :-)

Another thing that occurred to me would be to have a set of VB live
templates available to ease the pain of conversion, invoked by using
the VB equivalent for the functionality being sought. For example, a
template invoked by typing CDate [TAB] would invoke a live template for
StrToDate.

I initially thought about suggesting a VBUtils.pas unit which would
provide wrapper methods exposed using VB names, but I would prefer to
educate the user of the Delphi equivalent, rather than have them
continue to use the more familiar VB counterpart. I think that live
templates may be a way to allow easier access to routines VB developers
are used to having in their VB arsenal, but doing so in such a way as
to educate them of the Delphi equivalent.

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