> Go rant on a Borland newsgroup and stop wasting our time. Many of us
> have used Delphi extensively and decided that we prefer Visual Studio.
> Coming to a .Net newsgroup and complaining about how .Net 1.x
> serializes data certainly isn't going to do anything to change out
> minds.

> Hi,
>
> .NET 1.x uses very unefficient way to store binary data to a resource
> stream (e.g. .resources file). For example when framework stores
> System.Char or System.Boolean it actually serializes the whole type and
> the value. As the result it takes 20 to 30 bytes to store a single char
> or boolean value!!!!
>
> VCL has been there 12 years and has always used only two bytes for
> boolean and 2-3 to char.
>
> Really amazing engineering from Microsoft!
>
> Lucky for us MS finally learned and fixed this in .NET 2.x where boolean
> and char are stored as primary data type (same was as VCL used 12 years
> ago!).
>
> Why the hell MS took all the main software engineers from Borland 5-7
> years ago it did not utilize their expertize. My guess was that they just
> wanted to kill Delphi that was and still is the most productive software
> development tool.
>
> Best regards,
> Jaakko
>