Does anyone actually think that NET is a good idea? Doesn't it suffer from the Microft BLOAT we all love to hate ? And feature overload? And slow ? How about the vb for net - does anyone think its any good - and if so what do you like about it - and what do you hate about it. How does it compare to Delphi ?

Is it good for building reliable applicaiton s?

I didn't use it for very long, but I can say that it is actually.... not reliable at all. I would spend a lot of time getting the program to work on my machine, only to have a friend test it out on his machine and be missing a .ocx. Pretty much any program you create in VB.net will only run on about 75% of all computers. Testing around my house, I would find i was missing some random dll or ocx and then replace it, and be missing a different one. After replacing hte second one, it said the first one was missing again and kept repeating... Probably one of the most annoying things ever. Dont waste your time.

Take my words.
.NET is far more reliable then u can think off. Its a gem of a technology.

Microsoft has really devoted a lot of time to make it a super cool stuff. It really makes a programmer's job as easy as arranging blocks.

Just to note down some of its features
(Ignore Spelling misteakes Please.. )
Huge Framework Library to support almost everything u can think off.
garbage Colletion
Just in time Compilation - Mind Well its Compilation
Portablbility
Can be written in Many Languages

To add to stability - Garbage Colletion, Tested code, First Full Object Oriented Implementation by Microsoft, Solving problems like DLL Hell, Tight Integration using XML,
Excellent WebSupport and lots more.

well this is what I can think off right now.
There are Many. If i was allowed to copy and paste I cud have filled the entire site. lol.

Dot Net is a technology that provide you a framework to use different language to use the same library. Actually, It is slower that c++ because dot net need to run on the dot net framework. Alought the dot net framework make it slower. it provides a better and safer environment for the code to run.

I dont think that is the case. its in no manner slower then C/C++. You get the feel becuz its Compiled just in time. But Its intelligent enough to cope up with that.

Actually lets see how the Just in Time compilation of .NET CLR works.


Initially Just in Time Compiler will compile the code taking into the factors like
-Hardware Performance boosters...I mean the advatages provided by the platform.
-iT compiles and loads only the function needed for use at that particular instance of time. And hence will not compile all the code and will not load all the things in the memmory
-Provides Automatic and Intelligent Garbage Collection
-and much more


It, I am sure, will be faster then C/C++

True that Small programs will run faster if built using C++ but for may be huge programs like database handlers, imaging and multimedia softwares etc, .NET will be faster,

Well.. Whether we like it or not, .NET technology will rule over all Microsoft products in future.. The next Microsoft operating system, Longhorn/Vista, is built based on .NET technology.. It definately will give a strong fight against Java API.. The .NET framework will also be free for download. Only it's developing tools, Microsoft Visual Studio, will be priced. However the latest Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition is now free of charge for download until November next year.. Free, yes it is free for download and we all can use that copy even after November 2006 without infinging any copyright rules or whatsoever.. Check out Microsoft Visual Studio website for the downloads..

Yes to all counts.
First, the .NET framework is very stable and the compatability between the languages is excellent. The programs created with it are a little slow on the FIRST run because they have to be compiled from the IL to machine code. After that, they run just as quickly as a program written in any other language (such as Java).

Second, as long as the user has the .NET Framework installed on his computer and the programmer has included all of the required files in the distribution, there should be no missing dll's. There are even options in the solution for distributing the framework with the application.

I like the .NET framework a lot. The only thing I don't like is that it only runs on Windows machines right now. However, I have a feeling that the Linux and Mac guys are working on a solution for this.