VB vs. Delphi - Who wins and why

[BasSchouten]

The company i was working for has been merged with another. We both developed software for the adminstrative business market. We developed with Visual Basic 6 using ADO-components and Access and SQL server. The other company uses Delphi 4, with Interbase or an ADS database.

Of course now the question arrises with which environment we should continue ...

I'm not expecting any pro-Delphi comments in this forum , but can anyone here give me sound arguments why they prefer VB above Delphi.

I'm posting this same question in a Delphi forum and i hope to gather enough arguments to make a descision...

thanks a lot

Bas Schouten
Systemdevelopment & Webdesign
CBIS BV

 

[Karl Blessing]

Um , it really "DEPENDS" , its kind of like the old argument in another forum about which is "better" VC++ or VB , answer really is neither, because it depends on the task at hand, I think should get one of your VB developers up with one of there delphi developers, and go over what is your goal, and see which one acheives more of it.

for example witht he VC++ to VB someone used an analogy that one was a hammer the other was a screwdrive(apples and oranges, blah hehe) , while a hammer can put a nail into a wall very well, a screwdriver has a hard time, on the other hand, a screwdriver can put a screw in the wall nice easy and clean, where if you tried to use a hammer, you might not be able to do it, or make a total mess. Karl Blessing aka kb244{fastHACK}

 

[BasSchouten]

Thanks for the response ...
maybe someone can give examples of situations were VB will excel and situations were Delphi will excel. What are the strongpoints of either development platform?

Like I said, we're gonna be developing single and multiuser database applications on Windows platforms and Microsoft and Novell networks. Bas Schouten
System Development & Webdesign
CBIS BV Holland

 

[Karl Blessing]

if most of your clients are using SQL Server, and other microsoft databases, a microsoft database connectivity would be more advisible, as a result VB would have the stronghold over that. However if you are using Oracle, and *nix style Databases, Delphi would be more the goal, since microsoft related connectivity usally lack on the support. Karl Blessing aka kb244{fastHACK}

 

[shaddow]

If u want to do an simple dll that's use system calls and use this in another aplication u cannot do that in VB cuz u only do activex controls or another of this kind of dll...
In Delphi u can do all u want cuz this implements all system functionality in his includes...
In vb u have to declare before use...
This is a huge subject to discuss... but if u want to do an simple aplication and quick use vb if not use Delphi or C++
I use VB for databases and C for network comunications cuz is more flexible at exceptions (errors)
I use dll in vb made in C++...
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George

 

[strongm]

>u only do activex controls

And this is a problem why?