forty-fourOUR .NET STRATEGY
THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 2002
Here are my current thoughts on the gradual migration to .NET development tools at Fog Creek.
The status quo: Most of CityDesk is written in Visual Basic 6.0, with parts written in Visual C++ 6.0. Most of FogBUGZ is written in VBScript for ASP, with parts written in C++. Almost all of our internal tools and our web presence (FogShop, Discussions, etc.) are written in VBScript for ASP.
Why bother moving to .NET at all? Simply put, it's because .NET appears so far to be one of the most brilliant and productive development environments ever created. ASP.NET really makes it incredibly easy to create useful web applications; over the last couple of days I've been creating some applications we use ...
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