.Net | Which specific development platform

Rajesh Thampi

Hello guys

I've an overall experience of 15+ years developing Oracle forms and reports. I have done few .net based developments as well, mostly small tools for Active directory, file management and simple Windows services which could talk between different databases (sql, Oracle)

I have been a solution designer and developer throughout my career and I always wanted to learn .net based development, especially database driven applications for businesses where rapid data entry is most important (thus web based applications come secondary while evaluated).

I started with winforms recently and I believe am doing pretty good learning the basics and started wondering whether my choice was really good when couple of moderators started asking me "Why winforms"

Almost all my career I developed Windows forms based applications and appreciate if someone could suggest me a platform that is currently the best and yet helps me to develop desktop applications.

Thank you :)

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Francis Susaimichael10y ago
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I started with winforms recently and I believe am doing pretty good learning the basics and started wondering whether my choice was really good when couple of moderators started asking me "Why winforms"

This may due to the entire world go behind Web. So the "moderators" may ask why you go behind "Desktop"? IMO, both have their own market and evolving.

Almost all my career I developed Windows forms based applications and appreciate if someone could suggest me a platform that is currently the best and yet helps me to develop desktop applications.

Since you are developing Desktop applications, as others said go with WPF. It's also have its own job market. All the very best.
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Rajesh Thampi10y ago
@Francis

We are discarding Oracle applications and going ahead with .net based 2-Tier application and as IT manager, I met half dozen solution providers (EPICOR, SAGE, SAP B1, FOCUS and few open source ERP solutions).

A very young consultant suggested me that our employees should use excel to fill up the order lines and then his application can easily download the lines into orders.

You are correct, a majority of the solutions are currently prioritizing WEB, because the applications could be accessed from anywhere, anytime, however there are situations where desktop applications become a must, like in our business scenario where users don't touch mouse at all and columns are navigated using the press of Enter key.

Thank you for answering my question in detail.

regards,
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Rajesh Thampi10y ago
@Arun

Once someone asked ittoolbox, a place maximum Oracle things used to happen, to help with a SQL command to print 1,2,3..7

One decided to suggest what he felt the best as answer "Select "1,2,3,4,5,6,7" from dual"

How we perceive the situation is the first step to become a successful developer. Your coding skills comes secondary. I hope you will minimum try to understand what is behind this gyaan sharing :)

Cheers
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Gowtham Rajamanickam10y ago
Try with WPF
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Gowtham Rajamanickam10y ago
Try with WPF
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Gowtham Rajamanickam10y ago
Try with WPF
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Tom Mohan10y ago
Go ahead with WPF
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arun sahani10y ago
better lets use oracle apex
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