Commercial Products

[jermaine]

Have there been any commercial products made with .Net languages? VB.Net, C# C++?

can anyone provide a list or site?

[Hack]

Made, or actually sold?

We have .NET versions of all of our commerical products (Risk Management software for Insurance companies), but, we haven't actually sold any yet.

However, we have been getting requests to look at the .NET demo versions of our software and that is a decided change from last year at this time.

[jermaine]

Made, or actually sold?

We have .NET versions of all of our commerical products (Risk Management software for Insurance companies), but, we haven't actually sold any yet.

However, we have been getting requests to look at the .NET demo versions of our software and that is a decided change from last year at this time.

cool, i am looking actually for both. Cause i keep being told that it stuff made in .Net
is not as powerful as None .Net.( a friend told me this)
There fore wont be able to sell as good as other programs.


I was telling him about a program i am making and have been working for 3 years now, it has about 220,000 line of codes. I told him I was making it in VB.Net and he says its not worth selling because not many Net programs sell.

[jermaine]

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edit: nevermind

[Hack]

cool, i am looking actually for both. Cause i keep being told that it stuff made in .Net is not as powerful as None .Net.( a friend told me this)

WHAT????? For one of the few times in my life I'm actually at something of a loss for words. Where is the name of everything that is good and holy in the universe did your friend get this idea?

he says its not worth selling because not many Net programs sell.

Ask him so show you some statistics to support his "theory".

[GaryMazzone]

We actually have a product we have installed at a couple of places that is written in .Net. The original was written in VB6 and was rewritten in .Net. I think the .Net version works better and is much cleaner.

[bgmacaw]

The controller software for the DigiTech RP-150/250/350 series of guitar effects processors appears to be written in C# using .NET Framework 1.1.

[Hack]

The problem facing commercial .NET developers is not the language. The problem is that the management types in companies senior enough to sign the check or the contract remains to be convinced that products made with this platform are worth the money.

The first steps toward changing that attitude are already well underway. Most in-house IT staffs these days are using .NET – they are starting to rollout in-house applications built on this platform and these management types are slowly being introduced to these types of applications. They are seeing what these .NET applications can do.

With that as a background, management types will begin to look more favorably on commercial products made with .NET

Ask Joe or Jane Programmer working for [insert name] Corporation what they would prefer and they will be all over .NET – however, Joe or Jane Programmer do not have the ability to authorize the purchase of a postage stamp much less a software product costing God knows what. These are not the people that have to be convinced. Management is.

In the corporate world, change is slow to come. Management types are not programmers. Management types, typically, are conservative and not prone to taking a risk especially if the risk is going to involve lots of money.

As with all new technological innovations this attitude is changing albeit, slowly.

[Slaine]

We have several, very succesfull, products that we sell - all developed in .NET.

[Hack]

We have several, very succesfull, products that we sell - all developed in .NET.

On behalf my company and our products, I am very happy to hear that.

[Edneeis]

The Control Panel for ATI graphics cards is written in .NET. Its the thing that you go to to set the display properties and such (if you have an ATI card).