BMW Financial Services is committed to Microsoft technologies and has used Visual Basic (VB) as the mainstay of application development for over ten years. Our applications began taking shape in 1994, even as VB itself was still growing up. In early 2000, I was hired to manage the newly established system architecture team. We found ourselves facing a wide variety of architectures and coding styles. Although we are almost purely a VB shop, we had several different application frameworks and our code employed a number of different “standards” for common tasks. We also used over one hundred different third-party COM components. Our intent was to standardize our architectures and to implement more intelligent code reuse, but such changes are expensive and building a case purely on the basis of architecture goodness is near impossible.
By 2001, Microsoft had begun to promote its new, improved development platform: Microsoft’s next generation toolset that would become .NET. We decided that this new platform should become a key component of our standardization strategy. As luck would have it, in early 2002 we found ourselves at cross roads: we were about to embark on a major CRM package implementation. The package warranty did not allow us to use stored procedures – the other mainstay of our application development. We would have to use the package’s APIs. By now, .NET was entering the mainstream, particularly for developing middle tier web services. It was a match made in heaven: we needed a solid platform for integrating with the CRM package, and .NET fit the bill perfectly. By the end of the year, we had used C# (See Sidebar: Choosing a.NET Language) to design, build, and deploy a service-oriented middle tier that integrated our legacy applications with the CRM solution. More importantly, we had also educated management about the impending loss of VB support and got the go ahead to build additional .NET frameworks that would form the foundation for migrating to .NET.
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