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It's not just the end user, it's also the developer support time. Nothing sucks worse than trying to debug system DLL versioning poblems. Not all systems have the right MFC versions... and if you try to install your own, you open up a new can of worms...
I do wonder if .NET will be better or worse. I suppose if any newer version of .NET is 100% backwards compatible, and there is some mechanism for ensuring that code won't run unless at least version x of the .NET framework exists, then it will be much better.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
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Navin wrote:
I suppose if any newer version of .NET is 100% backwards compatible, and there is some mechanism for ensuring that code won't run unless at least version x of the .NET framework exists, then it will be much better.
An associated .config file to the app can rule this, but only if the developer knows how to handle it properly. Most of the time, and that's the default behavior as well, end-users are required to have the same .NET run-time build than the one used by the developer to compile his code against. Which means x can be either very old, or very new compared to the one currently installed on the end-user machine. Potentially sucks.
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I don't do .NET...
And if you're not working with the end-user in mind, what's the freakin point?
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
I don't do .NET...
You make it sound like Heroin. 
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I'm defintely on the side of throwing the DLLs to the four winds. More files to install means more problems for the user and the support department, as well as those setting up test environments! I like the idea of a reasonable (ok, smallish) sized application shipping in as few files as possible, preferably one.
* Help, something's gone wrong!
* What version do they have?
Do you want a single answer to the above or any number of combinations of different executables and DLL versions.
*climbs off soapbox*
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
if the DLL was loaded by another app and that app is still running.
Not exactly. If interface of function or class in that DLL has been changed, new application will run a new DLL, and won't use the old one with old interface
Philip Patrick
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Exactly - when I use MFC (which is less and less these days), I always statically link. Unfortunatley, some legacy code around here links dynamically, and can be difficult to change. Especially when some other team owns the code. 
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
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It is also entirely possible that dtSearch just redirected the shell command for DSW files? I could see someone using DSW to mean 'Dt Search Workfile' or something like that, so of course, trying to double-click on a DSW file results in no activity, or something wierd with dtSearch occuring.
One of these dyas, lazy programmers will get of their collective asses and realize Windows has been supporting file extensions longer than 3 characters since Windows 95 
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I know that, you know that, pretty mucvh everyone here knows that... But does Microsoft realise it? How many current microsoft products still use 3-character extensions and how many strangely call all their internal files by 8.3 names? Do they know somethign we don't perhaps...?
Rog
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No, VC 6 runs (but I did check the registry just to be sure). VC 6 runs, then blows up. 
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Case in point: I installed dtSearch recently and doing so broke VC 6. Now I can no longer double-click a DSW file to open the workspace.
This sounds more like the mapping of file extension to application got broken, not a DLL problem. Maybe dtSearch assigned the DSW extension to something else.
Marc
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No, VC 6 runs (but I did check the registry just to be sure). VC 6 runs, then blows up. 
--Mike--
I'm bored... Episode I bored.
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CHRIIIS??? Could we please add an "VB weenie" option to all future surveys? This makes them happy, those cute little critters...
like "[ ] But VB is better than COBOL!"
just kiddin'
Those who not hear the music think the dancers are mad. [sighist] [Agile]
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You'd have to add an option like this:
[ ] What's a "library"?
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
[ ] What's a "library"?
- Anders
Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
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and Whats Programming? 
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Yeah, with some of the new clientele, that's a viable question.
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Good one. Perhaps we need "John Simmons / outlaw programmer" as an option in every survey from now on. 
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
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peterchen wrote:
like "[ ] But VB is better than COBOL!"
just kiddin'
Yeah, COBOL is far better 
Holy Sh*t! I'm speechless. (hey, that's a first) Marc Clifton, The Lounge
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Like any of us C++ guys are worried about that...
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Then suggest a survey and some of the possible options.
Chris is pretty good about fielding user requests.
If you don't ask, he will survey what he or others suggest and not possibly every what you want to see
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