C++ .NET help

[Gatttsu]

I used to know quite a bit of programming in Visual C++ .NET, anyone familiar with this particular programming language, perhaps even have have a spare home brewed program laying around that I can rip apart to learn the basics once again? I've been trying to nose around looking for samples and tutorials so I can work on an idea I had recently, but nothing has come up lately that even comes close to reminding me how to start writing a program again from scratch.

Any help is appreciated, I need plenty at this point, I've somehow forgotten nearly everything I used to know about programming.

 

[Bustaballs]

www.planetsourcecode.com check out the .NET section

I haven't messed with C++ .NET at all. I just stick to the Bloodshed Dev C++ IDE.

 

[etchdog2000]

Just curious. Why you playing around with C++.Net? I actually didnt even realize there was a C++.NET. I thought microsoft replaced it with C#.NET, considering I have written a bit of C#.NET and it is very much like C++. In all the business discussions, I dont think I have ever heard of people using C++.NET, so I would assume its not a widely used toolkit(if it wasnt completely replaced by C#).

 

[Raziella]

C++.NET has been around for a while now. C# is more of a mimic of Java to support Microsoft's .NET Framework for web based applications.

This is, of couse, my own opinion, but I've been writing in C/C++ for about 7 years now, and I find .NET to be a travesty to the language. Some people on the other hand really like .NET for it's specific uses. But as far as I'm concerned, I would rather avoid .NET and learning it through that useless, standard-breaking MSDN cluster-fuck.

When I was changing jobs a few months ago, I noticed that very few developers were looking for .NET experience. I'm not sure if the those companies were held down by Microsoft contracts (as they often like to do to snare developers).

My advice, if you can live through the MSDN torture long enough to learn .NET's intricacies, more power to ya. But honestly, I would stick with 6.0 just because the knowledge base for it is larger and more widely supported.

-- And unix developers won't hate you as much for deving in win32 ;-)

 

[etchdog2000]

C++.NET has been around for a while now. C# is more of a mimic of Java to support Microsoft's .NET Framework for web based applications.

This is, of couse, my own opinion, but I've been writing in C/C++ for about 7 years now, and I find .NET to be a travesty to the language. Some people on the other hand really like .NET for it's specific uses. But as far as I'm concerned, I would rather avoid .NET and learning it through that useless, standard-breaking MSDN cluster-fuck.

When I was changing jobs a few months ago, I noticed that very few developers were looking for .NET experience. I'm not sure if the those companies were held down by Microsoft contracts (as they often like to do to snare developers).

My advice, if you can live through the MSDN torture long enough to learn .NET's intricacies, more power to ya. But honestly, I would stick with 6.0 just because the knowledge base for it is larger and more widely supported.

-- And unix developers won't hate you as much for deving in win32 ;-)

I find what you said very interesting. Because from where I am from, its very much the opposite. People are struggling to find people with .NET experience and are paying out the nose for it. I personally been doing .NET development for a good 4 years, and at the current place I work we struggle to find people with experience, all the business's in the area are cut throat trying to find people with .NET experience.

Very cool to see somone else's opinion.

 

[CmdrFly]

Programming those corn farm irrigation systems big?

 

[Raziella]

I find what you said very interesting. Because from where I am from, its very much the opposite. People are struggling to find people with .NET experience and are paying out the nose for it. I personally been doing .NET development for a good 4 years, and at the current place I work we struggle to find people with experience, all the business's in the area are cut throat trying to find people with .NET experience.

Very cool to see somone else's opinion.

haha, yeah, that's interesting. I very well could have been seeing a coincidence where it just wasn't a big thing at that particular point in time. I wish I knew more about .NET, but I was imediately turned off by it when I dumped the code for one of my utilities into the environment and got errors out the wazoo (it compiled flawlessly in 6.0 and gcc). But I'm sure it's not as bad as the zealots will say once you get used to it. My animosity comes from the pangs of change :-D. I guess I just prefer my classic C/C++ where I know what everything does lol. To each his own.

 

[Gatttsu]

My little project isn't something too big, should be quite simple once I get back up to speed, the only reason I use C++ .NET is because it's the only language I know besides BASIC XD

Looks like planetsourcecode might be able to help me out, many thanks ^^

 

[Gatttsu]

Quick update:

Thanks for the help, I've gotten partway back into the swing of things with the language, I'm currently working on a D&D style die roll program in simple text display just to get the feel of writing a program from scratch again and going through the debugging process, all I have to do is figure our how the random number generation works and I think I may have one complete program ^^