Counting Quirks
Crossfire lets you capitalize on your organization's VB.Net experience to develop mobile applications, but there are some caveats. I found that conversion of support files is too tied to Microsoft-specific formats. The image-conversion tool supports only .bmp files, even though the .Net environment supports most Internet graphic formats. Database conversion is available only for Microsoft Access (MDB) databases, though few enterprises store significant amounts of data in this format. I had to convert all graphics files and database data, then convert them again to the target platform's format.
And converting databases is time-consuming. In my tests, I had to export data to a flat file or directly to .mdb format and then convert it to the format the target platform requires. With graphics, each conversion introduced some amount of loss. I'd like to see AppForge develop a complete toolkit that supports all the "normal and usual" data sources and image formats.
I'm also disappointed that the product supports only Visual Basic. Since the release of the .Net Framework, C# has become a popular development language in the Microsoft arena. AppForge says C# support is coming.
Worth a Try
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