Thursday, October 27, 2005
Visual Studio
This article should be read by anybody who aspires to writing applications for the .Net environment. It never occurred to me before that it is even possible to write a Windows Forms app from scratch without using the inbuilt VS.Net wizards.
As a professional programmer, I can tell you that VS.Net is one of the best - if not the best - programming tools there is. However, it encourages amateurs to think that programming is easy and anybody can write an application (which they can given a tool like VS.Net or, even more dangerously, Microsoft Access, just not a good one). Unfortunately, for any real useful app, there really is more to it than dragging a few controls onto a form. If I had a pound for every time I've gone to a customer and had to sort out a system that was written in Access or Excel with VBA and is simply not up to the job because the code is unmaintainable or it doesn't work when three people are using it at the same time, I'd have £17 or thereabouts.
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As a professional programmer, I can tell you that VS.Net is one of the best - if not the best - programming tools there is. However, it encourages amateurs to think that programming is easy and anybody can write an application (which they can given a tool like VS.Net or, even more dangerously, Microsoft Access, just not a good one). Unfortunately, for any real useful app, there really is more to it than dragging a few controls onto a form. If I had a pound for every time I've gone to a customer and had to sort out a system that was written in Access or Excel with VBA and is simply not up to the job because the code is unmaintainable or it doesn't work when three people are using it at the same time, I'd have £17 or thereabouts.
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# posted by JeremyP : 10:12 am
