On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 14:04:02 -0400, Dan Joseph wrote: >Yeah, the framework does. The free editor is for web apps, the Visual >Studio is for normal apps.
FYI, I just had Visual Studio ordered for me - a single license for it with a 1 year subscription to MSDN was over $2800! I don't know yet what the yearly cost is going to be. To be able to put the generated code on the net is going to require a Microsoft web server. My understanding is that there is supposed to be a seat on the license for EVERY non-anonymous login that is provided users. I've been looking (under duress) at moving from PHP to .net and have played with Web Matrix (the free .net IDE). It now supports VB.net and C#. Visual Studio supports those and more as well as allows for Windows app development. I'm a pretty good PHP programmer, and things I could knock out in a couple of hours seem to be WAY more difficult to do in .Net. For instance (and before anyone gripes that the following comparison is unfair - I am not trying to do a comparison - merely offering a couple of observations), I dragged a xml viewer component to the aspx work area (this "generated" about 50 lines of code) and then pointed it at a 40 meg xml file..... about 15 minutes later I got an "Out Of Memory" error on the asp page and no usable output. Using PHP, I opened a 100 meg xml file, read through the records checking each one using a perl regular expression and it took it 21 seconds to return - no output (I wanted it to just count the number of xml groups - >17,000 with 20-30 elements each). I'm probably going to see what happens tomorrow if I try to load the entire 100 meg xml file into a PHP array --- I expect it to "just work" and deal with the memory. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
