Why is there no .NET support (yet) in appTranslator ?

I sometimes receive e-mails from people telling me that Win32 apps are so 20^th century ! Why doesn't appTranslator support .NET ?

Well, first of all, appTranslator doesn't support .NET yet.

Who are my clients ?

When I started to work on appTranslator, I was wondering who my clients would be. And I figured that software that needs to be translated is more likely shrinkwrap software rather than consultingware or internal software. I believe .NET is not yet the platform of choice for this kind of software (although I admit this is changing very rapidly). Reasons of course include the overhead of the .NET framework redistribution/deployment. But it's no longer the main one.
Starting-up companies don't usually care much about translation. They have work enough getting their product ready and filling their local market. After some time, their product is getting better, they start thinking of hunting further from home (understand: abroad) and realize they need to translate their software. Which means that even if .NET is becoming more and more widely adopted for shrinkwrap software, the people looking for a localization solution have a product whose development started probably a few years ago, hence is not likely .NET based.

What am I good at ?

There is another reason. This one is probably even more important. When you start-up, you basically need to do everything in your company, from sales to support, from development to marketing, and I wish that would be it. And of course, you can't be good at everything. I, for example, am a developer. I'm very used to managing projects and designing software products. But even though I believe I have good presentation skills, I'm not a sales guy. And marketing is not what I'm used to do.

Since I know there are areas of my occupation where I'm probably not very good at, I'd better be as good as possible in areas that are my strong points. As far as my development skills are concerned, I'm way better at Win32 than at .NET. It's just a question of experience.
So it's undoubtful that I would do a better job at solving a problem for Win32 apps than solving the same problem for .NET apps.

That's why I focused on Win32 in version 1.0 of appTranslator.

OK, but will appTranslator ever support .NET ?

OF COURSE !!! And better sooner than later.

OK, don't make me say what I didn't say! .NET support is not coming next month. Neither in August. But it will come. Yep. Promised.