Based on our observations, software development activities in C# and VB started to peak only when VS2005 was released. And so therefore, it's quite surprising to me that there has been C# apps being converted to another language which is Delphi.
In our case, we are currently converting our VFP app into C# and we just finished not even half of it simply because our system covers a lot of business aspects (HR/Payroll, Financial Accounting, LIS, RIS, HealthCare, Inventory & Warehousing, PatientCare, Billing...).
>Hi Jess,
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>Thanks for the feedback, i can't also believe this when my colleague tells me this thing. Yes there is Delphi for .Net, they have C++ Builder, C# Builder and PHP Builder.
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>I can see the power of Delphi but still lacks features compare to other languages.
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>Regards.
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>>There is actually a Delphi.NET. It works much like other .NET languages dependent on CLR. The claim that most of C# apps are being converted to Delphi is just plain hearsays or maybe some are doing it but it's a mistake IMO. While Delphi is good, it can not surpass the many advantages of C# overall. Most of the VFP programmers here are into JAVA or C#. But since Philippines is a Microsoft country, most are going to the latter.
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>>>Hi Jess,
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>>>What if its a part time job then? BTW, is it true that the trend of application development in the Philippines is that "a lot of customers who have applications develop in C# wants to re-writes in Delphi? I heard this from my colleauge who is currently in the Philippines. He even forwarded an email regarding the conversion from C# to Delphi. And my colleauge will be the one to do the re-write. Im not quite sure if its tru or not.
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>>>FYI, I just found out that Delphi 2005/2007 is like .NET. Its very similar.. try to have a look.
http://www.codegear.com/downloads>>>
>>>Regards.
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>>>>>Hi Fred
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>>>>>If you get paid by the hour, Oracle is the way to go
>>>>>If you get paid by the job, not so much :)
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>>>>>I think the problem might be people are TOO productive with Foxpro!
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>>>>LOL! So people who get paid by the hour should start ANTI-FOXPRO campaign...
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>>>>>Bob
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>>>>>>>>>>Thank you. I'm retired, so I'll keep on plunking away on VFP because I know it better than other languages and it is all I need for what I do. But on the other hand, I see a remarkable development tool being cast aside and that bothers me. I have always viewed VFP as a possible Oracle killer, but MS never went after Oracle which to this day baffles me.
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>>>>>>>>>Obviously, you never used oracle. It blows vfp out of the water as a data base. Power, speed, scalability, etc. No comparison.
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>>>>>>>>(oh, and don't forget price. <g>)
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>>>>>>>>Has Oracle Forms gotten any better? It used to be a pig and a bear to develop in.
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>>>>>>>Last one I heard was about a team which took four years and still didn't get a sufficient number of forms done to kick the app into production. And then a Fox team wrote the same forms in Fox against the same database in a few months.
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>>>>>>>But that was years ago.
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>>>>>>That fits exactly with my experience, including the time frame.
JESS S. BANAGA
Project Leader - SDD division
...shifting from VFP to C#.Net
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