App development

Do you know if is easy to make apps than traditional desktop software? I
tried Visual Basic and it's not very complicated. Perhaps app development
should be a good way of life.

Randy wrote:
Do you know if is easy to make apps than traditional desktop software? I
tried Visual Basic and it's not very complicated. Perhaps app
development should be a good way of life.

How do you define "app"?
MS Office can be considered an app. It is several million lines long.
Is a five line VBS program a program or an app?
Personally, I would like to find someone to write drivers to make
hardware compatible with o/s's.

Randy wrote:
Do you know if is easy to make apps than traditional desktop software? I
tried Visual Basic and it's not very complicated. Perhaps app development
should be a good way of life.

"Paul in Houston TX" escreveu na mensagem
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How do you define "app"?
MS Office can be considered an app. It is several million lines long.
Is a five line VBS program a program or an app?
Personally, I would like to find someone to write drivers to make
hardware compatible with o/s's.

Thanks.

Randy wrote:
Do you know if is easy to make apps than traditional desktop software? I
tried Visual Basic and it's not very complicated. Perhaps app
development should be a good way of life.

For the average small developer (one-man shop), being
in the Microsoft Store does not pay well. It pays
about as well, in per-hour wages, as working at the
McDonalds flipping burgers. Your program idea must
be really unique, capture the imagination of the users,
to make any real money. Making an application which
looks like the other applications, does not guarantee
a goldmine awaits you. You will travel to your work
on a bicycle, not a Lamborghini.

Paul

On Sat, 04 Oct 2014 13:24:54 -0500, Paul in Houston TX
wrote:

Randy wrote:
Do you know if is easy to make apps than traditional desktop software? I
tried Visual Basic and it's not very complicated. Perhaps app
development should be a good way of life.

How do you define "app"?
MS Office can be considered an app. It is several million lines long.


Your definition seems similar to mine. As far as I'm concerned, "app"
is just short for "application," and any program (except possibly a
utility, if you want to use different names for them) is both an "app"
and "application." The three terms--"program," "application," and
"app,"--essentially mean the same thing.

However, applications on iphones and ipods and Android devices have
been called "apps" rather than "applications" by most people. And
Microsoft started using the same name with the tile applications on
the Modern/Metro interface. So unfortunately almost overnight, almost
everyone in the world (including Randy, quoted above) now
differentiates between applications (major applications that run under
the desktop interface) and apps (minor applications that run under the
Modern/Metro interface). I disagree with that point of view, but I
know that it's a losing battle.

On Sat, 04 Oct 2014 13:08:15 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
wrote:

However, applications on iphones and ipods and Android devices have



Sorry, typo. I meant "ipads," not "ipods."

Randy wrote:
Do you know if is easy to make apps than traditional desktop software? I
tried Visual Basic and it's not very complicated. Perhaps app development
should be a good way of life.

"Paul" escreveu na mensagem ...
For the average small developer (one-man shop), being
in the Microsoft Store does not pay well. It pays
about as well, in per-hour wages, as working at the
McDonalds flipping burgers. Your program idea must
be really unique, capture the imagination of the users,
to make any real money. Making an application which
looks like the other applications, does not guarantee
a goldmine awaits you. You will travel to your work
on a bicycle, not a Lamborghini.

Paul
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I did a search and found that metro's apps are made with javascript which is
a language a little hard to learn. I guess it's like working with webpages.
We need Visual Studio Express 2012. Once I installed VS Express Free but got
issues on system and quit. Next year things will change and I don't have
time or ideas.