A Petty question

[Shella]

Hi
As I'd used VB to write database application for a year, I found that VB is not as good as what thought of, coz it came with many unwanted and unknown bugs which may cause the program to be written in an alternative way to prevent the errors from happening. I heard of Delphi is far better, doesn't know the strenght of Delphi over VB, any comments ? Thanx in advance.

[Chris Eastwood]

I've used OO Pascal before (never Delphi) - It all depends on what your used to. I know VB has limitations and bugs, but there really is nothing stopping you from still using it. I've written many multi user applications for companies and never found using VB to be a problem for this.


You need to decide :

1. What the critical areas of the application you are designing are
(eg. High volume database processing / 100's of users etc)

2. Will the language allow you to write software in a re-usable manner.

3. Can the application be written / prototyped quickly with the programming language.

4. Do you have sufficient skill in the language (and futher more, do you have time to learn it before the application development starts)


Chris Eastwood

CodeGuru - the website for developers
http://codeguru.developer.com/vb

[Shella]

Yeah, I can't deny that VB is very handy to be used for creating a prototype of a new application without having to write tedious codes, but the OCXs come with VB have many bugs, sometimes I think I may be writing the wrong codes, but in fact it's not my fault after asking for SOS from other VB experts. Till now, I can't still solve the problem of using Sort and Filter property of Recordset, always prompt me the error message, like Can't Open Anymore Tables, then I was told to use SQL instead, but I found Sort can help me reduce lengthy codes if compared to SQL, Unfortunately, after running Sort for 20 times, that error message will prompt me again.

well i guess they each has their own strengths. I have been using Delphi 1,2,3,4 in about 3 years now and in terms of development time-its really good. I am now trying my hands in VB and the only problem i have encountered is its limitations on its deployment (trouble registering and uninstalling Activex).