Mike
>>I wouldn't make blanket statements about .NET being slow. The StringBuilder class is literally hundreds of times faster than string handling in VB6.<<
Sorry if I wasn't clear. What I said was
>>You hear a lot of positive talk about dotNET from people who have read articles but have not themselves deployed a dotNET app. I have. It isn't easy, it is extremely costly and slow. I have posted elsewhere that a dotNET app we completed can process 1 word document per second on a P4 heavy server, the existing VFP version on my P3 notebook can process many per second.<<
IOW I was making comments in line with experience I'd had, it wasn't meant to be a blanket statement.
As for V2 at the end of 2003: that should be looked at as a key date for those in this thread, IMHO. Until then we need to stay watchful but productive.
Regards
JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
