Hi

I need to know limitations of .Net in regards to other technologies available.

please do let me know.

Thanks

Suneet

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.NET can't boil an egg. I've also found that I can't get it to change my baby's diaper (a task I'd REALLY like to automate). Some tasks just don't port as well as others.


Can you be more specific? What capabilities of what other technologies are you looking to compare to .NET? It is a pretty full featured development framework and you can hook into non-managed code and use APIs etc etc, so it's pretty hard to say what it can't do without some direct examples, questions or functionalities specified.

-Peter

Hi Peter

I don't know whether you are a professional or not, and eat eggs and you have children for whom you need to change dipers.

I just need to know if I am offered to develop application, and have option to develop it in .Net then what are different aspects which I need to consider while presenting my suggestion to the client. This is what I am expecting from you this time, if you have done it so far.

Many Thanks in advance

Suneet

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I'm afraid I still don't know how to answer your question. You are not providing much to go on. If you can't provide some specific scenarios then it's hard to describe what .NET has to support it's use or not. And I certainly can not list all the type of applications that you may need to create in the future and thus provide the pros and cons of .NET or other technologies.

Yes, I am a professional. I primarily build web applications, however I have experimented with remoting, threading, and windows forms.

I think you may find it difficult to get a clear answer to this question. I find that most people have a primary technology that they use, are familiar with and thus have a tendency to evangelize. Finding someone who could provide multiple viewpoints on various (competing) technologies will probably be difficult.

I can speak from some experience and say that if you want to build a web application then certainly ASP.NET is very capable and easier than Classic ASP, PHP or AS400 using RPG (yes, I have actually used this, scary as it may seem). But there are now some web app frameworks in other technologies that might be fine to use, such as the recently released PHP framework and Ruby on Rails. I have not used either of these so I will of course be biased towards ASP.NET.

To come to some kind of point... you would probably be much better off asking a question like "Can .NET do X?" People on this forum will certainly be able to answer that or at least provide a link to the answer. But asking us to arbitrarily compare different technologies is like asking "Which is better: a bicycle or a dump truck?" As always with technology the answer will be: "It depends on what you want to do."

-Peter

Well spoken peter.

To illustrate a bit, give X application are you going to be making a large use of pointers and accessing memory directly? While .NET can do this (unsafe keyword in C#) depending on the complexity of the app you may be better off using C++ but, to reiterate Peter, what do you want to do?

You may want to rephrase your question into something like what are the pros and cons of Java vs .NET or PHP vs .NET. That, by far, is an easier question to answer then just a broad generalization.

hth.

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Hi Peter and nth,

Many thanks for the replies, I should say that I really need to explore my question and make it more elaborative so that this will become more understandable.

I will try more links related to that, and I will definitly come back with a good reply. Basically perhaps I was expecting a compatison sheet or something which can look like that.

Thanks again.

Suneet

Take a look here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compari...ming_languages

There is a wealth of information linked to from this article. Perhaps it will shed some light on this subject.

-Peter