Small size application
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Hi Guys, I intend to develop a desktop application and my targeted audience are small business companies, they usually have a P3/P4 system with 256mb of ram running winxp and might not have good internet connection. I want to know the best application development tool. I thought that I should use LINQ TO SQL, so i would be facilitated with new features of .net, but requirement of this feature is .net3.5 installed on client machine which makes deployment of the application a big headache. My requirements are RAD of GUI and business logic with very easy deployment, like a DELPHI applicaiton. I am using a DELPHI application and its installation file is of few MBs and installed with in few mins without much pain, on the contrary .net deployment taking too much time and irritates client.
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Hi Guys, I intend to develop a desktop application and my targeted audience are small business companies, they usually have a P3/P4 system with 256mb of ram running winxp and might not have good internet connection. I want to know the best application development tool. I thought that I should use LINQ TO SQL, so i would be facilitated with new features of .net, but requirement of this feature is .net3.5 installed on client machine which makes deployment of the application a big headache. My requirements are RAD of GUI and business logic with very easy deployment, like a DELPHI applicaiton. I am using a DELPHI application and its installation file is of few MBs and installed with in few mins without much pain, on the contrary .net deployment taking too much time and irritates client.
FaisalMoon wrote:
My requirements are RAD of GUI and business logic with very easy deployment, like a DELPHI applicaiton.
Why not use Delphi? There's nothing wrong with it, and it has a strong following. A bigger hammer is not always a good solution, but it sounds as if you're trying to find a reason to use a big hammer when there's no reason for it.
FaisalMoon wrote:
.net deployment taking too much time and irritates client.
Other than your desire to work in .Net, is there any business case for using a tool that will hog resources and possibly annoy your customer?
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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FaisalMoon wrote:
My requirements are RAD of GUI and business logic with very easy deployment, like a DELPHI applicaiton.
Why not use Delphi? There's nothing wrong with it, and it has a strong following. A bigger hammer is not always a good solution, but it sounds as if you're trying to find a reason to use a big hammer when there's no reason for it.
FaisalMoon wrote:
.net deployment taking too much time and irritates client.
Other than your desire to work in .Net, is there any business case for using a tool that will hog resources and possibly annoy your customer?
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
Roger Wright wrote:
Why not use Delphi? There's nothing wrong with it, and it has a strong following. A bigger hammer is not always a good solution, but it sounds as if you're trying to find a reason to use a big hammer when there's no reason for it.
Well reason behind going for .net is that, I am a .net developer, and for DELPHI there is learning curve, and I am not sure its worth learning DELPHI?
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Roger Wright wrote:
Why not use Delphi? There's nothing wrong with it, and it has a strong following. A bigger hammer is not always a good solution, but it sounds as if you're trying to find a reason to use a big hammer when there's no reason for it.
Well reason behind going for .net is that, I am a .net developer, and for DELPHI there is learning curve, and I am not sure its worth learning DELPHI?
FaisalMoon wrote:
and I am not sure its worth learning DELPHI?
I haven't seen much Delphi-related work lately. Take a look at some Delphi-code and try to estimate whether it's worth it for you. Alternatively, you might want to consider installing a smaller .NET runtime, something like Mono :)
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FaisalMoon wrote:
and I am not sure its worth learning DELPHI?
I haven't seen much Delphi-related work lately. Take a look at some Delphi-code and try to estimate whether it's worth it for you. Alternatively, you might want to consider installing a smaller .NET runtime, something like Mono :)
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after a bit of research I found '.Net Framework Client Profile' (http://blogs.windowsclient.net/trickster92/archive/2008/05/21/introducing-the-net-framework-client-profile.aspx[^] I hope it worth giving a try. On the database side I think 'Firebird' would be good, in terms of deployment at least. Here is a comparision b/w sql server express and firebird http://firebirdsql.org/dotnetfirebird/blog/2005/02/embedded-firebird-and-microsoft-sql.html[^] I doubt if Firebird is well supported in Entity Framework and if I could use any good ORM for that, if any of you guys knows a good ORM which supports Firebird and .Net integration, please do let me know.
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after a bit of research I found '.Net Framework Client Profile' (http://blogs.windowsclient.net/trickster92/archive/2008/05/21/introducing-the-net-framework-client-profile.aspx[^] I hope it worth giving a try. On the database side I think 'Firebird' would be good, in terms of deployment at least. Here is a comparision b/w sql server express and firebird http://firebirdsql.org/dotnetfirebird/blog/2005/02/embedded-firebird-and-microsoft-sql.html[^] I doubt if Firebird is well supported in Entity Framework and if I could use any good ORM for that, if any of you guys knows a good ORM which supports Firebird and .Net integration, please do let me know.
FaisalMoon wrote:
after a bit of research I found '.Net Framework Client Profile'
Thanks, added it to my bookmarks :)
FaisalMoon wrote:
I doubt if Firebird is well supported in Entity Framework and if I could use any good ORM for that, if any of you guys knows a good ORM which supports Firebird and .Net integration, please do let me know.
I haven't looked into it, but there might be a version of LINQ to Firebird.
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