Re: CodeJock MFC products now 50% off thru end of October 2007

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"Ajay Kalra" <ajaykalra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Whys that?

The majority of desktop software is written in C++, not .NET.

Thats no longer true for new apps. All the legacy continues to be what it
was C++ etc but new apps are predominantly .Net.

For web applications, yes. Honestly, I'm not trying to debate you on this.
If I was to write a brand new desktop application today, I would certainly
push for C++/MFC as .NET makes little sense for the desktop area.

Why just last week, I was working on a desktop app that the company migrated
to C#. Not for any particular reason, just because they wanted to be cutting
edge. I was fixing a bug and for the *MILLIONTH* time, I had to call a
native function. It took close to 100 lines of code to do so after
converting all the data back and forth. Yeah, thats really efficient :).

No desktop app at the big companies is written in .NET.

This is true only because all apps are pre .net period and it makes no
sense to migrate these.

Dundas went free because they were behind Codejock and BCGSoft and
probably had too tiny of a market share.

I dont know. I would guess that market for MFC controls is almost
negligible compared to same in .Net. I would suspect that was the reason
behind this decision.

Probably... because the majority of new work is web apps.


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