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rbuserrbuser
edited November 2006 in General
With 3 versions of VS.net under our belt along with uncertainty in the
Delphi world, I am really suprrised that a first rate product like RB
does not yet have a .Net version. Even interop would be acceptable at
this point. I am sure that I am not the only one who finds RB
indispensible. I have bought or purchased .Net reporting tools but
found all of them lacking compared to my experience with RB. Please,
lets get something going with a .Net compatible version of RB. I know
you are working on it... but it has been a number of years now. If
something does not happen soon I will be forced to commit to another
product... and I am not looking forward to that.

--
David Farrell-Garcia
Whidbey Island Software, LLC

Comments

  • rbuserrbuser
    edited November 2006
    Nard Moseley (Digital Metaphors) wrote:


    Thank you for the progress report Nard. RB.Net is worth waiting for. I
    just wanted to have a ballpark time frame and your current rollout-plan
    is good enough for me. I don't mind at all building the reports in
    Win32 VCL initially, as long as they can be viewed and printed in .Net.
    I would just ship our end-user report designer app as a separate Win32
    application.


    Good. I think that supporting both would be essential. Thanks again.

    --
    David Farrell-Garcia
    Whidbey Island Software, LLC
  • nardmoseleynardmoseley
    edited November 2006

    Thanks for the feedback. Progess on RB for .NET phase 1 is moving forward.
    At the beginning of this year, we had a goal of releasing something by the
    end of this year. However, we are not going to reach that goal. The new goal
    is the first quarter of next year. On the plus side of things, I am excited
    about the approach we are taking and the code/classes we have written thus
    far.

    The first phase will have the ability to preview and print reports in .NET,
    while relying on a COM layer to leverage the existing report engine.

    RB .NET <----> Page <--> COM/RB VCL Win32

    Later phases will port additional subsystems to pure .NET.

    The new development is being done in C#, our intention is to support VS and
    Borland .NET environments.


    --
    Nard Moseley
    Digital Metaphors
    www.digital-metaphors.com

    Best regards,

    Nard Moseley
    Digital Metaphors
    www.digital-metaphors.com
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