Coders Tell Why They're Avoiding Vista

News Type: Event — Seeded on Mon May 19, 2008 4:42 AM EDT

Article Source: PC World

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Windows developers are confirming the results of a survey released yesterday that found fewer than 1 in 12 programmers currently writing applications targeting Windows Vista.

"None of our customers are saying, 'G******it, we need those WPF controls now!'" said Julian Bucknall, CTO for Windows programming tools maker Developer Express Inc. , referring to one of Vista's most highly-touted features, its new graphical subsystem, Windows Presentation Foundation . Rather, "we find most are still sticking with ASP.Net and Windows Forms applications."

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Can't say this is surprising. I'd be treading water waiting for 7 if I were a Windows developer.

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#1 - Mon May 19, 2008 5:31 AM EDT

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"98% of the apps we write are for the Web," Krasowski said. "They're more flexible and easier to maintain. Many of our clients are migrating from apps written in VB6 or .Net."

This is where we find ourselves. Most of our apps are written for the browser, since they are so much easier to deploy and support, and we then have a few agents that run on the server and certainly don't need flashy graphics. Our biggest issue is not making things look nice, but having to rewrite code that works perfectly well, simply because MS has stopped supporting the framework it's written in, with no real benefit to moving to a more modern framework. We still have quite a lot of working code in ASP 1.1, and for a small company to devote time to converting this to .NET 2 or 3 when our clients want new functionality is very difficult.

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#2 - Mon May 19, 2008 6:07 AM EDT

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