| Conventional programmer will code their way to the | | | | RAD will work very well because its' utility has |
| end of the project, but new Visual Studio 2005 and | | | | become to mature through the time, and developer |
| 2008 allows developer to "drag and draw" their | | | | can lower the development cost and deliver the |
| application from start till the end! They call it Rapid | | | | project faster. If you don't believe me, try it yourself, |
| Application Development. Programmer from Borland | | | | compare the "coding style" and "drawing style", |
| Delphi in the old days already familiar with RAD | | | | definitely you will agree with me that: Let the tools |
| programming, but until Microsoft replaced them with the | | | | code for you always the fastest way. |
| powerful Dataset Designer, Form Designer and other | | | | There are many sample source codes out there on |
| visual tools, most of them switch to Visual Studio, and I | | | | the Internet, visit Microsoft blog or just simply enter |
| am one of the Delphi developers. | | | | "Rapid Application Development for VB.Net" into |
| From my experience with Visual Studio 2005, you can | | | | Google, you should find lots of tutorial and information |
| write code 500% faster than another conventional | | | | showing you how to code in "drawing style"... Why not |
| programmer with the help of visual inheritance, form | | | | use the tools that you already paid to do the job for |
| designer and dataset designer. Some developer still | | | | you? Do coding the smart way, not the hard way. |
| relied on code generation tools such as CodeSmith to | | | | For your information: Visual Studio 2008 added many |
| generate Insert, Update and Delete stored procedure | | | | cool features, you can now do 3-tier programming |
| for SQL server, and certainly data access code in | | | | easier than before! and the Microsoft Synchronization |
| Visual Studio! | | | | framework for ADO.Net brings RAD into offline |
| The biggest problem for RAD programming not | | | | application; You can use the software offline and |
| common between Visual Studio 2005 developers is | | | | upload any pending updates that you make during |
| lack of documentation and tutorial... and VS2008 has | | | | offline into the server by batch, very cool feature! And |
| improved this weakness. Now you can find lots of | | | | The best part, you can do that RAD all the way... |
| video tutorial and web demos showing you how to | | | | (C) Copyright 2008 CYNICS SOFTWARE - Feel free |
| code your software in RAD style; I predict the RAD | | | | to reprint this article in its entirety as long as all links and |
| programming will be become very popular in the next | | | | author resources box in place. |
| 3 years. | | | | |