Microsoft apps written in VB or .NET
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It annoys me because it's absurd and innexcusable. Why should I have to use ComponentOne for things .NET should provide? Fortunately, I work a company that can afford such a suite, but when I owned my own company, I could barely afford Visual Studio, let alone anything more. (Of course, let's not be naive; Microsoft does this to protect Office.) Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
But it's not really the job of .net to be all *that* I don't think. Anyone with the Infragistics (or I guess the componentone) suite could make a clone of every Office product in fairly short order given sufficient (and not incredible) resources, I don't think Microsoft is worried about that per se. I think they just have different teams working on different things and one of those teams who does Outlook (in particular) is tasked with ensuring it has the most user friendly interface possible. The visual studio and developer tools team (or, I guess whoever is responsible for Windows.Forms namespace in .net) is like a different company completely than the one that does outlook they are so far removed. I'm sure .net will advance and include more and more as time goes by.
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Does anyone happen to know of any Microsoft products written in .Net or in VB6? A couple of my co-workers are always saying how C++ is a dead language and is now obsolete. I KNOW that's not true. Anyway, most of the Microsoft products I've ever heard of being written in any language have always been using MFC or C/C++, not that I know any specific ones. But doesn't it say something if a company that makes a language doesn't write any apps in the language themselves? I know in VC6 the 'Tip of the Day' used to pop up every once in a while that said 'We use it before you do. Visual C++ was made using Visual C++!' can this be said about VB My articles www.stillwaterexpress.com BlackDice