Re: How's dot.net doing nowadays?

On Jan 20, 5:49 am, MM <kylix...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 15:16:06 -0600, "Chris Anderson [MVP-VB]"

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)?

A .NET application is a collection of IL assembly code. All .NET
programming language produces the same IL. There are programs that
take IL written in C# and can show VB.NET code and vice versa.

What it means that even if they stop releasing new versions of VB.NET
a .NET program can be easily converted over another language with
little or no behavior issues. C# and VB.NET in particular are near
clones of each other. Also there is an open source alternative to
VB.NET as well as C#.

Also unlike MFC or VB6 the internal IL of all of Microsoft's
frameworks are easily exposed via programs like Reflector. By doing
this I am able to replicate .NET functionality in my current VB6
code.

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.

The alternate choices are

1) Go with an alternate vendor and depend on them not screwing it up
and deal with the limitations of their resources
2) Go with open source and lag behind the latest developments. On the
plus side stability is far greater as nobody can force you to upgrade
and you have full access to the source.

Going with Microsoft and having open source backup is the way to go.

.

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