SURVEY: Who is building or shipping .NET applications today?

I guess it's not revealing too much to give two examples.

For one customer, one of my colleagues is using C# to control two external pieces of equipment via serial ports, so he has had to do some threading and interacting with serial card drivers. I don't know his real application though.

One customer asked me[*] to write a DLL to be callable from VB, and subsequently it turned out to be for both VB6 and VB2003, so I gave sample client applications in both languages calling the DLL.

In fact in the case I worked on here is some feedback for the CLR people. 40 years ago PL/I let the programmer specify lower bounds for array indices. 10 years ago Microsoft allowed it too, though in VB not PL/I. And Microsoft allowed it in ODL files too. When Microsoft says that Microsoft has lost the technology to do it, Microsoft continues earning Microsoft's reputation. Sure programmers can put minus signs and constants (or variables) in every array access, just like we do in C. Microsoft never misses an opportunity to push people who are neutral (in some way or other) into enemy camps.

Thanks for helping out, but would you mind going to the survey wiki page instead of leaving comments here? The CLR team won't be looking at this blog entry - they'll be looking at the wiki!

Sorry. I also just remembered that your emphasis is on security (though you didn't mention it in the current blog entry) and my comments don't involve security.

Hello, I've also wonder about this as well. I've read many articles/posts questioning the saturation of the .NET Frameworks.

In my opinion, however, I believe that the .NET Framework is an excellent step forward (in terms of development time, etc.), but I've received feedback from potential customers requesting my applications to be available in other binaries, such as Win32 or Java.

Also, I've added myself to your list of vendors that offer .NET-based applications -- so I hope you don't mind.

Thanks, Matt.
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Just want to point out to Norman Diamond that you can control the lower bound. Use Array.CreateInstance(Type, int[], int[]).