I've just got to say that I am still in shock. We used Devshare as a deadline for transporting one of our VO apps to Vulcan. Goodness knows how many lines but it compiles to about 12Mbytes in VO. It took 5 man-days to clean the code in VO2.8 then about 1 hour to do a final transport.

And then it just ran. It amazed me because this app is full of glitz - everything is owner-drawn - even groupboxes consist of a "tasteful" top and left engaved line only; tabs are owner-drawn. And all menus, screen prompts and tooltips are translated on creation into a foriegn language. 3D browsers, buttons that look like Office; you name it, and we have embellished it. Most of our code is written in dispatch(). I thought Vulcan would choke on something like this. It only things it choked on were our bits of bad coding!

I'll write up our experience for others because there was some lost time in there. And I'll post some screen shots over the weekend. We've got all our corrections back in VO, so re-tranporting to Vulcan is a snap. I was expecting a slow changeover period, but I don't think that is going to be the case. We do need to write a couple of modules in dotnet before we make the big switch, but that's all.

You hear so many users say things like "We tried the new version, but it was so different, we couldn't cope." If we had rewritten for dotnet, we would have changed so much that our users might be saying that about us. Now they will move to dotnet without realising, but our development opportunities will be widened beyond imagination.

So great credit to Brian and the team (including Don, if he is listening). It's been a long journey but you have hit exactly the right spot at the right time for us. I'm still stunned that we had to do so little work for such a large reward. A really really big THANK YOU.

Dave Francis