Dot Net tools

[F. S]

Would somebody please compare different C# development tools, such as MS
Visual Studio and Delphi 2005, C# and Delphi.net?

[Jon Shemitz]

> Would somebody please compare different C# development tools, such as MS

Visual Studio and Delphi 2005, C# and Delphi.net?

A bit hard to review D.2005, since it doesn't have a public beta like
VS.

Broadly, though: D.2005 has refactoring support roughly comparable to
VS.2005, but doesn't have the auto-formatter that VS.2003 had, nor
does it appear to have the navigation tools (class and member
dropdowns) that VS.2003 had. VS.2005 has lots of great little menus to
write interface stubs, or create a stub fn that you called without
defining, or add using statements, &c; I don't believe that
Delphi.2005 has any.

C# is as typesafe as Delphi, and much cleaner. A C# class is almost
always significantly smaller and easier to read than the functionally
equivalent Delphi class.

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[Jon Shemitz]

Jon Shemitz wrote:

Would somebody please compare different C# development tools, such as MS
Visual Studio and Delphi 2005, C# and Delphi.net?
A bit hard to review D.2005, since it doesn't have a public beta like
VS.

Ooops, I answered for D.2006, which is not out; not D.2005, which is
is.
Broadly, though: D.2005 has refactoring support roughly comparable to
VS.2005, but doesn't have the auto-formatter that VS.2003 had, nor
does it appear to have the navigation tools (class and member
dropdowns) that VS.2003 had. VS.2005 has lots of great little menus to
write interface stubs, or create a stub fn that you called without
defining, or add using statements, &c; I don't believe that
Delphi.2005 has any.

D.2005 doesn't have refactoring. D.2006 is maybe 85% of VS.2003, by
virtue of the refactoring. D.2005 lacks basic tools, and is clunky and
buggy.

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[Michael J. Ryan (tracker1)]

F. S wrote:

Would somebody please compare different C# development tools, such as MS
Visual Studio and Delphi 2005, C# and Delphi.net?

Doest Delphi 2005 support C#? or are you wanting a comparison to different
..Net development tools? For the most part, any language has its' advantages,
and if you are familiar with one vs. the other, you may be better off going in
that direction, depending on the amount of time you want to dedicate.

C# was built along side of .Net, so will probably have a broader amount of
functionality exposed in the language... if you are familiar with C-Style
languages (C/C++, Pascal/Delphi, etc) you may be better off going with C#.
Also when learning a new platform, having a new language helps break out of
certain habits...

Regardless of the language you go with, a good understanding of the framework,
and OOP concepts will be far more helpful to you than a particular development
tool, or language.

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