Which one Should i Choose ??? .NET or Delphi

Recently , i was in discussion with My manager as well the client in moving an application from Delphi to .NET ( Visual Studio 2010 ) and thought myself Which one is Better?? and was struck up with no clear answer.

Here’s i compare two technologies ( Not Technically but just about what i feel ) and this is just my opinion and others might well disagree with me too . Here we go .

Anders Hejlsberg was involved in C# and for Delphi too and this puts me in a quetion on there might be similarities too …

C# / .NET

C# is a simple and very well defined language .
Its from Microsoft and .NET is the future for Development on the Microsoft Platform.
Visual Studio’s Code Editor and the Options of the Extensions / Addons to the IDE brings me more functions to be brought together in single IDE / Place especially Code Compare too and Data Compare tool etc
Excellent Community Support for .NET . Check the following sites

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BDE and NVARCHAR . Should i go for ADO or dbExpress ?

Last week , i was working on a task that basically supports the use of SQL Server 2005 instead of Oracle .
The following Interesting observations were made during this time .
The Project used a lot of BDE components ( TQuery , TDatabase , TTable ) , which connects to the Oracle through the driver Oracle Driver that comes with the Delphi 7.

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TQuery and RequestLive in Delphi 7

TQuery component in Delphi enables your applications to use SQL syntax to access data from the database like paradox,Oracle etc.

We perform the following steps to use the TQuery component .

1. Create the TQuery Component.This can be done either by dropping the component on top the designer or during the runtime

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Delphi 7 , MCafee and Virus

Recently , when i wrote an application in Delphi 7 and tried to compile the program , the virus scanner identified it immediately as a virus and then deleted the exe.

I was in a shock for few weeks while making some research on it to see if i was really creating a virus while compiling the Delphi Program.I was also worried if it was the virus that affects the Delphi 7 IDE that was in news recently.

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2009,Resolutions and Top Blog Posts

Every year, I make a resolution and the time of the year is back again for me to look back and evaluate what I’ve done well, what I missed, and what I need to change to make 2010 even better than 2009.

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