IS VB Net Robust enough for Heavy Web load 1

[ajacode]

Hi All,

I'm sure somewhere on MIcrosoft.com the marketing guys have their spin articles but I have a client pushing back on using VB .Net versus (C ++) or C #

Has the new version of VB .Net overcome that old issue with the non compiled Version 6 ?

Here's their question:
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" Language clearly presents another performance concern. In the past, as attractive as VB was to developers, it carried a significant run-time performance penalty, especially when compared to the rather lean code produced by C++. I do not know if that is true any longer, but I suspect that, although the differences may have diminished, it is still at least somewhat true. As much as I would like to see Visual Basic be the development language, if it can't provide the same or nearly the same run-time performance as another choice, VB likely should NOT be selected. "

Any Suggestions or links to backgrounder info ?

Thanks Beforehand

AJACode

 

[chiph]

We run a website on VB6 with 5 million hits a day, using a farm of 10 web servers. VB.NET is more powerful that VB6, so I would expect even better performance.

Chip H.


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[chrissie1]

Chiph,

And who is the donkey on your farm?

Christiaan Baes
Belgium

If you want to get an answer read this FAQ faq796-2540
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[ThatRickGuy]

What type of software are you writing? What kind of life cycle are you looking at? How important is a few tenths of a second here or there?

If you're talking about a business app, tracking corprate info and data, I would suggest VB. Faster development, user friendly form generation, huge support community, and all round well suited for such applications.

If you're talking about a new router control solution, or something that is doing heavy calculations, and is runs in situations where a tenth of a second could be a major hit. Then yeah, go for C++.

As for web solutions, wether you go ASP or ASP.Net the majority of the burden lies on your web server. But proper coding and the use of data and page catching along with many other optimizations can make even a very indepth page opperate smoothly and quickly. You may also want to check out PHP which is a great Perl based language that is becoming more and more popular on the web. It's kinda like java, but not nearly as annoying.

-Rick

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[chiph]

And who is the donkey on your farm?

Server #4 -- it seems to crash more often than the others, and we have no idea why -- they're all identical hardware, and were installed from a Ghost image.

Chip H.


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