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A Measure of Success..

I took a little pride in managed code and the .NET Framework generally today when I popular consultant told me he turned down a big project in the bay area because the client wanted only unmanaged code… How 20th century of them ;-). Heard any similar stories?

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  • Anonymous
    January 19, 2004
    On the flip-side, I've been able to accept contracts for upwards of 150 to 200 dollars and hour for unmanaged code work because everyone else is turning the opportunities down. I will say, pulling down the government contracts, I've yet to see any pop up that want managed code. If I see any managed code contracts come out of a naval base, homeland security, or JPL I'll let you know because that would TRULY be a measure of success.

  • Anonymous
    January 19, 2004
    I've done .NET contract work for some contractors who developed apps for the Navy. They're doing it, but it's mostly at the departmental/smaller projects level. The Navy is big into J2EE/Oracle, unfortunately.

  • Anonymous
    January 19, 2004
    I've been doing .NET full time (well over 40 hrs a week) since the beta days. We had a client on a Microsoft early adopter program during the beta and have been all .NET since. I remember "back in the day" when .NET was still very new in the enterprise and the press would go on and on about how no one was using it; we couldn't train our people on .NET fast enough! The best part was that, except for the initial project, we've had to do zero interop. I can't imagine doing anything else. I've said it for years now, but it still rings true: .NET made software development fun again.

  • Anonymous
    January 20, 2004
    Yes. When you show a simple Winform app consuming 25MB RAM, and Winword consuming 10MB, every client thinks twice.
    I did a ADO.NET app. Some forms, some queries. It was toooo slow. I did it again in VB6, problem solved. Ok, it was Win98, but...
    C++ is hard to develop, but even bad code will not be as slow as .net. If you use CString, str::string, CComVariant, CComBSTR, the code becomes clear and easy. And even if you leak every allocation you will not use more than 30MB.
    .NET is hard to optimize.

  • Anonymous
    January 20, 2004
    Rodrigo, I am curious to know what tools you have used to look at your memory. If you haven't tried, I'd strongly recommend taking a look at CLRProfiler which you can get at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=86CE6052-D7F4-4AEB-9B7A-94635BEEBDDA&displaylang=en (comes with a detailed doc that explains how to use it).

  • Anonymous
    January 20, 2004
    doing it since beta 2 in an investment bank
    with Yukon datawarehousing it will become VERY big

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    January 26, 2004
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