Re: Is developing in VB6 still viable?
- From: Tom Shelton <tom_shelton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:41:25 -0800
On 2007-12-13, MikeB <m.byerleyATVerizonDottieNettie> wrote:
What is wrong with Win32 that MS needed to add an extra layer, that
couldn't be solved in improved libraries and run-times?
Win32 is dying.
Tom,
The following is a minimum Delphi GUI that formless compiles to 386k, with form
compiles to 387k, and might be a skosh smaller if I called the windows version
directly so I didn't have to add the dialogs unit:
program Project1;
uses
dialogs;
{$R *.res}
begin
showmessage('Hello World');
end.
How does this relate to a .Net app? Just curious.
You mean in code?
using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;
public class MainForm : Form
{
public MainForm ()
{
MessageBox.Show ("Hello, World!");
}
public static void Main ()
{
Application.Run (new MainForm());
}
}
compiled size - 16K.
console app - 16K
Also, it is great that .Net improves the workflow for team efforts, but how
does it improve things for others that do more mundane things like the little
utility/helper progs that I do?.
Improved intellisense, Improved design tools, improved souce control
integration, inclusion of refactoring aides (at least in c# - love
them), testing tools, etc, etc. Improved reusability, easier install
(in managed environments - xcopy). Greater amount of built in
functionality in the framework (most of the apps i've converted from VB
have been significantly less source code). better debugging.
just a stream of conciousness there :)
I have all the tools I can forsee in the Win32 environ and likely there are
more than a few like me on the planet yet.
Again, Win32 is dying. We are moving to 64-bit. Oh, it will be
probably 10 more years before everything is switched over, but....
--
Tom Shelton
.
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