Re: On the topic of religion: Church of Registry vs. The INIonist

From: Rachel (Rachel_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/08/04


Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 09:45:03 -0700


> ..NET will be ignored by people who can live without it
> - and if one cannot live without .NET then one is a pretty crude form
> of pond life
>
I personally can live with or without .Net. I cut my programming teeth on
VB6 and have since learned how to program in several other languages
including Pascal. (Do I hear hissing??? Sorry, I have only been programming
for five years, before that I worked in medicine.)

My main issue with .Net is that I need to learn so much about security. If
I create an application in .Net and install it on a network share I have to
create a security key and set permissions for it. I did not have to do this
in VB 6 and guess what friends and neighbors? They did not tell us this
little piece of information in school or in any of their friendly
introductions to .Net during development demonstrations. I had to learn this
after developing an application for my boss and attempting to put it on a
network share. Imagine my embarrassment when error messages appeared.

I firmly believe in installing an application on the registry for this
reason. The security on your own pc works for any application including .Net
ones, but if you leave an application out on a network share in .Net you have
to create a key and set permissions for who you want to have access to the
application. This is good for security reasons, but I sure would have
appreciated it if this had been explained earlier. Also, there are more
hassles with dlls now. It is taking time to get used to and I am not so
backward that I refuse to learn new things, I just want them explained in a
clear manner.

Rachel



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