It looks like .NET 3.0 is no longer in beta. Starting yesterday it is now available for download here. According to TheServerSide the new version of Windows (“Vista“) was also sent to manufacturing.
Does it change a lot to Delphi developers? Not much as Delphi 2006 Win32 can work with Vista already, and .NET 3.0 is technically just .NET 2.0 runtime plus some new .NET 2.0 compatible assemblies formerly known as WinFX. Looking forward to Highlander to play with these new technologies in Delphi for .NET.
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Thanks for a few good training days, and good to see you are back at blogging
Does this mean that we will get to play with .NET 3 in Highlander?
Hi Steffen,
I’m playing with .NET 3.0 in Highlander already!
BTW: I felt that Poland is going to beat Portugal in Euro2008 qualifiers:-)
You are forgetting that to play with the new WPF, WWF and WCF you need the new designer that in VS2005 are avaible like extensions (beta) and in VS2006 are built in.
And in Highlander?
Cannot comment on Highlander feature set here, as it is still in the field test.
Designers are making development tasks easier, but they are not neccessary. It is perfectly possible to build .NET 3.0 applications today without the IDE at all:-)
Sure it is. And you can do it in assembly too!!! I’m amazed at the "productivity" attitude that many used to display about Borland products vs competition. Now that the tables have turned, everything is just "hype" and "not necessary"
I see your point, but I would not agree. In the recent Petzold’s book on WPF programming "Applications = Code + Markup "there is almost 1k pages of code and markup, and no designers.
From the Introduction to his book:
"In the long run, most of the XAML gets written in this world will probably be generated by interactive designers and other programming tools. (…) However I think it’s vital for every WPF programmer to be able to write XAML "manually", and that’s what I show you how to do in this book."
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It is perfectly possible to build .NET 3.0 applications today without the IDE at all.
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And by the same reasoning you could build Delphi applications without the Delphi IDE.
Your argument that designers are not necessary just does not hold. For any reasonably sized project involving multiple team members, a designer for UI/non-UI code helps boost productivity immensely.
Just take any project you’ve been involved with over the last couple of years. Would you have built the application with a text editor offering just syntax highlighting, code completion plus a command line compiler?
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