Report Builder for Dotnet

rbuser

Nard

You may wish to reconsider Delphi 9 vs. Dotnet native. There is a very
large market for a C# and VB report writer, especially a good Windows Forms
Product. There are 2 report writers for Windows ASP that are good, but they
would probably be difficult to improve on anyway. ASP applications are not
the workhorse that Windows Forms applications are.

Something to Consider.

Thanks

Dave Knake
Apex Software, Inc.

nardmoseley

Dave,

Thanks for that additional feedback - we welcome it. We are interested in
what ReportBuilder developers are doing now and what they plan to do in the
short and long term future. We are interested in whether ReportBuilder
developers are committed to Win32 or are moving to VCL.NET or pure .NET. We
are interested in whether customers are doing web apps or forms apps. And
whether they are using WinForms or ASP.NET or Win32 Forms or ISAPI, etc.

I suspect the answer is that they are doing all of the above. The market is
fragmented.

We're looking at VCL.NET as a port of our existing code base and then to
native Dotnet as a rewrite. The investment in terms of effort is not equal.
However, if customers are not interested in VCL.NET or if VCL.NET does not
prove itself to be a viable class library then certainly we are wasting our
time. There are unknowns with each segment of the market.


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

rbuser

I for one will not waste time with VCL.NET.

I will go from Win32 straight to WinForms. Don't want to write a port
then convert again to .Net 100%

my .02