"SP" <ec***********@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Hi SP,
I suppose its mainly a development decision question. For instance, is
the majority of Windows Desktop development still using traditional tools
and the Win32 API, or is a significant amount (does anybody know of any
estimates?) now carried out using .net?
An estimate of the % of machines that have the framework installed would
be interesting, as one would assume that this would also help to indicate
how much development is going in in .net. e.g. if only 20% of machines
have the framework installed, then it would seem like the uptake is still
quite low.
If you develop using the .Net framework then you are going to come across
machines that do not have the framework already installed (with the
version you require). So the framework becomes the part of your
installation requirements. If this is not acceptable then you should stick
with Win32 development. I came from a VB background so installing runtime
files was something I always had to deal with. The .Net framework made
deployment easier.
HTH
SP
Thanks SP,
I guess the crux of my question is, how successful has Microsoft's .net been
at being accepted by the community that develops Windows Desktop
Applications? I remember reading a long time ago that .net is the way of the
future and the core of Windows will revolve around the technology. - this
was when 1.0 was being released.
But as I search through the newsgroups etc, I see that there appears to be a
lot of developers still against the the .net technology, and it is even
cited that Microsoft has gotten cold feet over .net, with there being less
..net technology built into Vista than originally planned.
On one side you have the anti .net people ranting, and on the other there is
the Microsoft marketing machine telling us all how good .net is. Rather than
read the opinions of the respective sides, I'd like to see what the actual
state of play is so far in terms of a rough % of the win32/.net development
split, and how many machines are estimated to have the framework(s)
installed.
So far trying to get an idea of this information appears to be difficult to
come accross.
James.