lfgmartins
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.NET and Delphi
Hi,
I hear lots of buzz around .NET. The clients say that we should migrate our software to .NET. They don't understand a thing about programming. Even though they talk about it.
Could you explain what is .NET? Is only for Internet programming? In what way Delphi works with .NET? Or should work, because I know Delphi 8 now fully supports it.
My softwares are very specific to the law area and are very simple and efective :). I don't know how .NET could benifit my softwares? In what cases should I use the .NET envoirement?
Could explain me by your examples? What projects have you made in .NET? Why did you choose that?
Does it have future?
Thanks,
Luis
I hear lots of buzz around .NET. The clients say that we should migrate our software to .NET. They don't understand a thing about programming. Even though they talk about it.
Could you explain what is .NET? Is only for Internet programming? In what way Delphi works with .NET? Or should work, because I know Delphi 8 now fully supports it.
My softwares are very specific to the law area and are very simple and efective :). I don't know how .NET could benifit my softwares? In what cases should I use the .NET envoirement?
Could explain me by your examples? What projects have you made in .NET? Why did you choose that?
Does it have future?
Thanks,
Luis
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Delphi for .NET will likely function much the same as usual (I haven't had the chance to try Delphi 8 yet though, only visual studio).
The big difference is that it will produce intermediate code to be interpreted by .NET common language runtime instead of machine code (the regular exe file). This will be done under the hood so if all works well it should go without notice. Due to this, the user will need to have the ".NET Framework" installed to run the application.
The main difference to the programmer is that you likely can not call functions in the Win32 API exactly the same way as before. How this is solved I don't know? Looking forward to learn more.