>>>Since when is NET 'proven' technology ?!? Are you talking about NET 1.1 , or latest 3.5 which is... how old ?
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>>Are you kidding? .NET is clearly proven technology - it's been around since circa 2000 and used all around the world in a vast number of situations. That is, unless you are looking through VFP tinted glasses.
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>>It's totally laughable that you can even utter such nonsense.
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>Yes, I was mostly kidding. Now, can you spare me of that kind of attitute and explain what is so 'proven' in technology that changes
>it's guts every few years apparently to the tune of solutions needing serious rewrites. Are new versions of NET framework backward compatible ? Yes , no, partialy , fully ?
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>I don't do NET yet, but that is what I read. So enlighten me. Do you have all your 1.1 apps upgraded to 3.5 and how did that go ?
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PMFJI, but .NET doesn't exactly "change it's guts"[sic] as much as "extends its guts" and offers more options. Just because there's all these new buzzword (Linq, Linq to Sql, Entity Framework) doesn't mean that we are losing any functionality. The rewrites you are mentioning are mainly to take advantage of the new technologies.