Re: How's dot.net doing nowadays?

On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 15:16:06 -0600, "Chris Anderson [MVP-VB]"
<tg-nospam@tannagh-dawt-com> wrote:

mayayana wrote:
Our VB6 app is a
dinosaur... it's time it picked up a club and started walking on two
feet. It's over a decade old, and it looks it. Does it function? Sure, I
suppose.

Finally, a .NetHead has presented a cogent case
for moving to .Net: It's the height of fashion.
By all means, sign me up!


First I resent the term .NetHead ... .NET for our app makes sense
because the time is right. If I were a .NetHEad, then I would have
bailed years ago to work for a full .NET shop. VB6 is alive and well.
And for some cases, still serves its purpose very well. There are things
that VB6 will forever be better suited for than a .NET app. But we have
outgrown the abilities of VB6. It's called progress.... it's attitudes
like yours and some of the others I've seen out there (here, and other
places), that would still have us working in 16 colors using command
line applications written in BASIC for DOS1.2.

The users expect more. Our app doesn't scale well. And we know that. The
birth of .NET is the first chance we have to correct that problem. It's
also giving us the opportunity to tighten security and auditing. Our
clients fall under the scope of Sarbanes/Oxley and as a result, some of
them have had to scale things back because parts are not in compliant.

There will be the nay-sayers. I accept that. There will be the
proponents. I accept that too. If you hate .NET so much, don't friggin
use it. It's just another tool in a developer's arsenal of weapons. Use
the right tool for the right reason.

Next, why is it that 8 of 10 .Notters will quote something out of
context so they can twist its meaning? If you quote someone, and argue
it, have the decency to quote the whole thing and then argue it.

If some one is moving to .NET, or if the reason some one changing ANY
platform is simply because it's the fashionable thing to do for the
week, then it's a bad decision. Make the change for the right reason.
That's what we're doing. It's time to give our app a face lift. Inside
and out. It's not like we're just doing this will-nilly, we've been
slowly moving in this direction for a little over three years.

And what will you say when Microsoft in a few years' time comes along
and announces the end of VB.Net "because we want to concentrate our
mainstream development on C#" (or whatever other weasel words they'll
use)? They did it to the VB community; so what's to stop them doing it
again? Face it, VB.Net has been a dismal failure as far as sales go.
It is a minnow compared to the Classic VB shark that never stopped
moving for ten years. VB.Net has throughout its existence been like
one of those laboratory rats that are used to grow ears on their
backs. An experiment, a Frankenstein, a weird political-ideological
conglomeration of misunderstanding and incomprehension.

I hope for your sake that it doesn't happen, but over here we have the
saying, once bitten, twice shy, and for that reason alone I wouldn't
trust Microsoft to tell me the time of day.

MM
.

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