{"id":32,"date":"2006-10-31T09:33:38","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T08:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=32"},"modified":"2006-10-31T09:33:38","modified_gmt":"2006-10-31T08:33:38","slug":"developers-quick-to-adopt-net-20-slow-to-leave-visual-c-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/32-developers-quick-to-adopt-net-20-slow-to-leave-visual-c-60.html","title":{"rendered":"Developers quick to adopt .NET 2.0, slow to leave Visual C++ 6.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Code Project is a popular resource site for Windows developers. It has polled its users on what programming language they use; see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codeproject.com\/script\/survey\/detail.asp?survey=613\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> for the details. Three points to note:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Visual C++ 6.0 still has high usage &#8211; nearly on a par with Visual C++ 2003 and 2005 combined. 19.78% vs 20.34% at the time of writing. I wonder if C runtime issues are a factor here. Visual C++ 6.0 is the last version that links to the standard mscvrt.dll; see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?postid=261\" target=\"_blank\">Visual Studio 2005 DLL Hell<\/a> for more details. That&#8217;s why I still have it installed on my machine.&nbsp;If that&#8217;s not it, I&#8217;d be interested to know why so many are still using this old product.<\/li>\n<li>By contrast, there has been rapid C# 2.0 adoption.&nbsp;18.93% C# 1.x versus 44.32% C# 2.0. I can understand this; .NET 2.0 is considerably improved over 1.x and there is little reason not to switch. <\/li>\n<li>Finally, there is a decent showing for Delphi at 24.54%. No surprise here; it&#8217;s a fantastic tool for Win32 coding. I guess the problem for Borland is that many are still using Delphi 7.x or earlier versions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note that the percentages add to more than 100% because programmes use mulitple tools; and that this is not a reliable snapshot of anything other than Code Project&#8217;s community.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:94415c32-2818-4bd4-a6c4-8d01a0f3468e\" contenteditable=\"false\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/programming\" rel=\"tag\">programming<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/.net\" rel=\"tag\">.net<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/c#\" rel=\"tag\">c#<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/visualc++\" rel=\"tag\">visualc++<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/delphi\" rel=\"tag\">delphi<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/borland\" rel=\"tag\">borland<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/microsoft\" rel=\"tag\">microsoft<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Code Project is a popular resource site for Windows developers. It has polled its users on what programming language they use; see here for the details. Three points to note: Visual C++ 6.0 still has high usage &#8211; nearly on a par with Visual C++ 2003 and 2005 combined. 19.78% vs 20.34% at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/32-developers-quick-to-adopt-net-20-slow-to-leave-visual-c-60.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Developers quick to adopt .NET 2.0, slow to leave Visual C++ 6.0<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software-development","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}