I want to learn a Basic dialect

[Patrice Terrier]

Yes, it is a professionnal environment with so many features, that it is 100 years ahead of the tools you are currently using.

It is not bug's free, however there are always workaround, especialy when you are able to write your own DLL.

You will be amazed to see the number of developpers world-wide that are using it.

All the largest French companies and administrations are using it, and it is the second language teached in the university here.

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[Carlo Pagani]

Some people not too happy with Windev

http://forum.mysnip.de/read.php?27131,41079

[Patrice Terrier]

Carlo,

I know exactly the pros and cons of WinDev, and i do not change my opinion.

Some of the applications i have written with it, would have taken me years to write with another language, and for me this is the best argument in favor of PC-Soft.

In other words: I do not restrict myself to one programming language, and i always select the one that is more suitable to achieve a specific task in the shortest delay.

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[Carlo Pagani]

Hi Patrice

Firstly thanks for bringing Windev to our attention.

I have been investigating Windev because I do a lot of data bound development and need to provide better UI with less development time. My colleague has done some Visual Studio samples and so far I am impressed, but means I have to make a choice of which my next language / dev environment will be. I am leaning towards Visual studio after reading that and other posts ... also opened my eyes to controls available for VS with this link http://www.infragistics.com/FullMovie.aspx?id=3402

I have downloaded Windev Express to play a little... Will update in a few weeks as I am not rushing this choice.

[Patrice Terrier]

what puzzle me more with VS2005 and C#, is the garbage collector that you have no way to control, i don't know if this has been fixed or not on VS 2009.

Also i found that Dot.NET is not good to do low level programming as i am doing with GDImage or WinLIFT.

About WinDev, you can download many examples from my web site, and because most of them are toward to GDImage, then you will be able to make some good comparison

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