>>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.
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>>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...).
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>Out of curiosity;
>How long it took up to now, and how meny developers are involved ?
>Don't tell me that all this is in a single app, we are talking about
>bundle of applications right ?
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>BTW What is LIS and RIS ??

LIS, probably means Laboratory Information Systems. We have to deal with that when connecting our app to bloodtest analysers.

Walter,