Should I Go .NET?

By Luke

As you know, I’ve developed couple of freeware products. I am looking to develop future builds as well as new software projects using the .NET runtime. The use of .NET runtime would ideally allow a better interface for upcoming software releases and simplify the development immensely as well.

The point is, currently Disk Heal and System Vault are available in very handy sizes of 400 and 275 KB, with the move to .NET, the .NET framework will need to be installed as well, which is an additional 20MB approximately.

Does the requirement of .NET framework in other applications bother you?

Currently, while I had to manage with a ‘windows classic’ interface for Disk Heal and System Vault, I used background images to optimize the skin of the application (at least with Disk Heal) as most software today are released with a sleek skin and effects as well, as operating systems like Vista started the trend.

Please leave your feedback in the comments.

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8 Comments so far

Dentists Lubbock Texas July 2, 2009 11:55 am

i think you can opt for latest .net version

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Online TV July 2, 2009 8:04 pm

I would not recommend you to make the products to use the .NET framework, since most of the people do not have the .NET framework installed, and when they would want to install your product, and will see that it requires additional software to be installed, they would just look for another product that is capable of doing what your product does.

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John Hunter July 3, 2009 3:48 am

I do not use .NET software myself. I have not interest in doing so either. I am not sure how many others share that opinion but I think a reasonable number of people do.
.-= John Hunter´s last blog ..Robert Brooks on Robots =-.

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jlbraaten July 4, 2009 10:26 am

I work off of Drupal, an open source PHP platform. There are tons of PHP CMS like this. Do you know of any good .NET CMS?
.-= jlbraaten´s last blog ..New Website ROI Tips: Online Goal Setting =-.

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Luqmaan reply on July 4th, 2009 3:48 pm:
Well, i am not aware of any .NET content management systems, however .net is usually more suited to offline desktop applications, in the post i was referring to offline desktop applications as well.

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myeasytv July 13, 2009 11:21 pm

yeah it means downlodaing that framework and it’s bulky and sometimes it doesn’t install properly. i wouldn’t do it.
.-= myeasytv´s last blog ..Watch Jennifer’s Body Online =-.

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Mubeen August 9, 2009 9:28 pm

I am not so sure about you going to use .NET to develop your software. I have used your softwares and it works perfectly. Why not keep it as it is…

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