RE: Visual Studio 2017 Released

Let me elaborate on the first part for posterity. That was using VB.NET and access methods included:
--ADO.NET accessing DB2 external stored procedures
--CGI webservices
--Data queues (the Windows client for this one is quite flakey)


I need to make a slight revision to the second part. Native .NET would open up IBMi to new devs, but I question existing midrange devs moving to .NET.




-----Original Message-----
From: Justin Taylor [mailto:JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2017 10:07 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Visual Studio 2017 Released

Back in the days of Windows Forms apps, I considered them a viable alternative for 5250 UI apps. They were stupid simple to create and could easily be connected to RPG backend programs.

Fast forward to today, I question what Visual Studio/.NET brings to the midrange community. This coming from someone conscripted into .NET development over a decade ago.