{"id":205,"date":"2002-04-19T00:03:26","date_gmt":"2002-04-19T00:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/?p=205"},"modified":"2002-04-19T00:03:26","modified_gmt":"2002-04-19T00:03:26","slug":"20020419","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/2002\/04\/19\/20020419\/","title":{"rendered":"2002\/04\/19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>I&#8217;ve been having a lot of fun developing The Fog Creek Control Panel with ASP.Net. It&#8217;s a web page that allows us to track critical business data in real time. I can see things like how many people are registering the CityDesk <A href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcreek.com\/CityDesk\/fog0000000033.html\">starter edition<\/A>, how many <A href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcreek.com\/Affiliates.html\">affiliate<\/A> applications need to be processed, how many <A href=\"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/articles\/fog0000000009.html\">bug reports<\/A> have arrived from customers (2 so far today), and so on. This morning I added two features: one gets detailed order information for any purchase in our database, and the other lists open purchase orders people have placed with us. Elapsed time to implement both features: 20 minutes.<\/P> <P>To be fair not everything about .NET is peaches and cream. Here are a few&nbsp;steps backwards&nbsp;I&#8217;ve noticed so far:<\/P> <UL> <LI>the IDE is amazingly sluggish on&nbsp;my PIII\/600 laptop. (Speaking of which, why the heck can&#8217;t I get a Thinkpad X-series with a 1.7 GHz P4M already? Does anybody know of any&nbsp;ultralight notebooks with this chip?)<\/LI> <LI>since destructors aren&#8217;t called when an object drops out of scope, if you have a SqlConnection object, you positively have to remember to close it because you can&#8217;t wait for the garbage collector to come around. I suppose this limitation of GCs has been argued to death when Java came around, and it&#8217;s not a big deal, but it is a step backwards<\/LI> <LI>that 20 MB runtime is a real showstopper. Yes, this is an advantage to <A href=\"http:\/\/www.borland.com\/delphi\/\">Delphi<\/A>. I&#8217;m starting to suspect that Microsoft doesn&#8217;t care &#8212; they are perfectly happy to have a development environment that is excellent for internal\/corporate applications, where they don&#8217;t compete, but borderline useless for shipping, commercial, shrinkwrap, where they do compete.<\/LI><\/UL> <P>&nbsp;<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been having a lot of fun developing The Fog Creek Control Panel with ASP.Net. It&#8217;s a web page that allows us to track critical business data&hellip; <span class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/2002\/04\/19\/20020419\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;2002\/04\/19&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s83KNI-20020419","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}