Re: Moving from Delphi to Visual Studio. Smart move??

Gijsie wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We are a small company (2 developers, 6 other people) and develop "out of
> the box" applications for local government. Our databaseplatform is Oracle.
> We will stick with Oracle since all out customers will stick with Oracle. We
> develop in Borland Delphi (with DOA-components) and in Borland JBuilder
> (with JDBC). We are now considering to change our main development platform
> from Delphi to Microsoft Visual Studio.
>
> Things that worry me:
> Does Visual Studio always asume you are working with MSSQL.
> Will we have to use ODBC.
> Can you keep deploying simple. (I want to have one exe that can run from a
> CD)
>
> Can anyone please share their experience with developing in Visual Studio
> towards Oracle databases. And what version (Professional, Enterprise or
> Architect) do you recommend. And should I worry about totally different
> things?
>
>
> Thx
> Gijs de Wolff
> Beheervisie b.v.

Almost every large .NET project of which I am aware has had very big problems. I would stay away from it unless there was a compelling reason to change.

To start with ... what is the business case for making any change from what you have to something else? You've provided on reason for doing anything differently in the future. What is motivating this?

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