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marty · Professional Member Joined: 10 May 2001 Posts: 789

Hi,

I have been using VDS for a few years now, and managed to introduce this little scripting language in my old company. I created a application to automate a complete process from end to end. They never continued or used it after I left.

Since 2 years I am working for a new great and BIG web company (over 19,000 employees around the world) but wont mention their name here. They bought VDS and VDSIPP after seeing what kind of app I done with it in 1 week. After 2 years of creating small apps for automation purposes (btw I am in Quality Assurance), our development departement approched me to use VDS! Of course it will be used to create frontends for our command line java apps. I dont expect them to switch from C++ and Java to VDS.

Even if VDS is not known as other programming languages are, it just proves that because its simple, small, low price and easy it can play a big role in big companies.

For me I would have never tought that one day I would use VDS in my day to day work. Not just has a hobby.

So I thank ED, Commercial Research and especially M. Prakash. Without his excellent support for VDSIPP3, VDS would not have an important role here in our DEV and QA dept. This is why I love VDS.. Support from most DLL creators and the community in general.

Its too bad that VDS is not has popular as it should be. And because of that and other things, VDS extensions are beginning to be less supported. Even myself have stopped development and support for 5 extensions I did a while back.

Commercial Research, think about this... Support to external DLLs would help VDS itself a lot.

Well I tought I would share this with you this morning.

jwfv · Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2004 1:29 pm Post subject:

Great story! I have always thought that VDS was a little undiscovered gem. It seems I can do just about anything that I want to with it.

I use it at work all the time. We have a finance company that gets business from outside agencies. So we have a very nice VDS app that runs at about 50 locations. It quotes the loans, prints the paperwork (with R&R report writer) and sends the information to our FTP server. Then we use a VDS app at our home office to retrieve the data daily and post it to our in-house database.

If any changes need to be made to the program, it is done within a very short time. Also, it all looks good with a nice, standard interface.

I would love to see a more robust user community and a wider user base with a real incentive for developers to release (and support) extensions and DSUs.

Boo · Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2004 5:00 pm Post subject:

Well said! I too have used the software for both hobby and work. In fact, at least one of my programs is still being used by a major U.S. corporation. (I no longer work for the company--as I have moved on to other things.) Wink

Cheers,

- Boo

Garrett · Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2004 7:20 pm Post subject:

Well, I can't say that what I'm adding to this is any kind of a success story,
But to me it's a new presonal record......

In all my years of using VDS, I've never had to write a ton of code to
make something. Typically only a few hundred lines of code has been
enough to do what I needed.

For the first time since Before Jullian sold VDS to Emmanuel, I punched
out a program with over 2500 lines of code! I have never punched out
that much code in one program ever! The closest thing was when I was
using Liberty Basic and I punched out 1500+ lines of code.

The best part of this is though, that I have not noticed any kind of
performance issues at all. It's not slowed by the amount of code involved
in the source.

I'm not even near done with this specific program yet... So it'll probably
reach over 3500 lines by the time I'm done.

I'm sure others have exceeded this before, but for me, this is like.. Wow!
You know?

Anyway, it's not a success that I've reached this amount of code in
program, it's a success that the amount of code does not seem to affect
the speed and performance of the program. Very Happy

Now I'm wondering if I should be embarrased by the amount of lines of
code in my program! Confused

jules · Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2004 7:47 pm Post subject:

My Tech-Pro Utilities are hitting several thousand downloads a month. And people are using them, judging by the number of people who use the built in downloader to check for updates. Sometimes I wonder if I should have made them shareware, but I'm getting donations every few days for up to $25 a time.

jwfv · Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2004 8:43 pm Post subject:

The program that I mentioned above that gets a lot of use is 6900 lines long and runs very quickly. And it looks great in XP with the manifest ...

PGWARE · **Web Host** Joined: 29 Dec 2001 Posts: 1565

Julian your Tech-Pro World Clock utility is awesome, I use it all the time. Did you use a component for that world clock image? The util is a nice program.

jules · Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2004 8:33 am Post subject:

World Clock is in fact the one non-VDS application on my site. Although the server components of my mail server are also not written in VDS because VDS does not support multithreading.

jules · Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2004 8:37 am Post subject:

Skit3000 · Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2004 8:39 am Post subject:

My VDS programs are usually smaller then the help files they come with... Smile

jules · Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2004 9:00 am Post subject:

I hate writing help files...

Skit3000 · Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2004 9:08 am Post subject:

I normally only put some nice screenshots in which explain things a bit... Smile

Garrett · Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2004 6:18 pm Post subject:

I've resorted to just using a text file for help documentation.

jwfv · Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 12:26 am Post subject:

With the few projects I have done since the large program (my first), I have used several smaller .exes as well. It gets a little ungainly to keep track of everything otherwise, I agree. But - in keeping with the original post - it does run well even with large size.

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

I sell only one small product currently, but have made hundreds of dollars
off of it. I love VDS. Very Happy