Re: What tool development are user to make money? by R
R
Sat Nov 20 21:13:35 CST 2004
"Joe Smith" <joesmith@aol.com> wrote in message
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> I'm going to assume, being a Microsoft product, that Visual Studio .Net
> was
> used to write the code. The language was most likely Visual Basic .Net or
> C#
.Net is not involved at all. If it were, you'd see the .Net runtime as a
requirement for Money, it isn't. Plus you have to consider that Money is a
set of dll's that hook with other existing dll's in Windows and IE. Those
most certainly would have been done in C or C++ for speed. A lot of people
complain about the speed of Money, it would certainly be slower in .Net.
Another consideration is that Money has an existing code base. Microsoft is
not going to put a lot of time and effort into rewriting it into .Net as
there is no return for them.
It's rather funny, Microsoft tells the rest of the world to write in .Net,
yet Windows, Office, SQL Server, Exchange Server, none of these are done in
.Net. .Net is for corporate America for the most part as a competitor to
Java. If a person wanted to target strictly the desktop you'd be better of
with plain VB, Delphi or C++ and MFC.