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Why upgrade to .NET from Visual Studio 6?

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jlindenmuth

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Aug 31, 2004
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We're embarking on a long-term (2 year) development effort for a distributed client/server application (our clients are worried about security and data entry speed, so we're not focused on a web product yet). A few of my developers have been pushing for .NET instead of the Visual Studio 6 that we're using now. I have a couple questions regarding the migration:

Are there any disadvantages to migrating?

Are there significant enough advantages to justify the cost (we have a very limited IT budget)?

We'd like to keep all of our server-side code as straight C or C++ to ensure that we can leverage the same code on any O/S (e.g. Linux) if we move to the web. Will .NET inhibit our cross-platform options?

Many thanks in advance,
Josh Lindenmuth
jlindenmuth@paytimepayroll.com
 
Visual Studio.NET 2003 has improvements to the C++ compiler to better conform to the C++ standard (albeit not perfect yet, though).

Also, since you mentioned a strained budget, you might try this route & see if you qualify:


Your company can get a 5-license MSDN Universal kit for cheap, cheap. :)
 
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