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Bob Wahr

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VB dot sharp?
« on: June 02, 2006, 04:32:11 PM »
Many of you are all too familiar with my programming (dis)abilities which should help you answer my question.

I've decided that it's time to bite the bullet and start doing this .net stuff.  OK, it's been on my to do list for quite some time, I just haven't really had the time to devote, or the project to do it on.  Do you (yes, if you're reading this, I'm talking to you) think that I should go with some VB .net or should I go more towards the ARX of the C#venant?
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TR

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Re: VB dot sharp?
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2006, 04:35:04 PM »
C#.
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Bob Wahr

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Re: VB dot sharp?
« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2006, 04:38:54 PM »
As they creep a little higher.

How much harder will C# be than VB .net coming from a VBAVB direction?
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Bobby C. Jones

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Re: VB dot sharp?
« Reply #3 on: June 02, 2006, 04:58:57 PM »
Quote from: Bob Wahr on June 02, 2006, 04:32:11 PM
Do you (yes, if you're reading this, I'm talking to you) think that I should go with some VB .net or should I go more towards the ARX of the C#venant?
Either will work.  In fact you've got quite a few more choices than just VB & C#.  Here's a site that I just found with a quick google search http://dotnetpowered.com/languages.aspx

I believe that most of the regulars in the swamp prefer C# (I do), but that is *completely* opposite of what I've found with acad developers in general.

Quote from: Bob Wahr on June 02, 2006, 04:38:54 PM
How much harder will C# be than VB .net coming from a VBAVB direction?
Learning language syntax is the easy part  :evil:
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Re: VB dot sharp?
« Reply #4 on: June 02, 2006, 05:00:06 PM »
IMHO VB.NET isn't that similiar to VB/VBA at all. You're better off with C#.
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Draftek

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Re: VB dot sharp?
« Reply #5 on: June 02, 2006, 05:18:03 PM »
I migrated to C#, from VB/VBA and I don't want to go back.

But as Bobby mentioned in the other post, don't bite off a big project. I had to throw away 3 months of work and start over recently.....
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LE

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Re: VB dot sharp?
« Reply #6 on: June 02, 2006, 05:52:25 PM »
Quote from: Bobby C. Jones on June 02, 2006, 04:58:57 PM
opposite of what I've found with acad developers in general.

Do you want to share what you found?  :-)
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Bob Wahr

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Re: VB dot sharp?
« Reply #7 on: June 02, 2006, 05:58:43 PM »
I assumed that they preferred VB.net
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Re: VB dot sharp?
« Reply #8 on: June 02, 2006, 06:18:02 PM »
I found C# to be a lot like VBA which made my transition very easy.  Being self taught in VBA and C#, I had a really hard time learning vba coming from LISP, but C# from VBA was really easy.
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« Reply #9 on: June 02, 2006, 06:22:01 PM »
Dear Diary,

Downloaded the labs today.  Tomorrow I'm going to take them out for a ride.  Maybe we'll go to the zoo.
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Re: VB dot sharp?
« Reply #10 on: June 02, 2006, 06:33:25 PM »
I've just been learning c++ for 6 years, by the time I am comfortable and proficient with it, it will be obsolete.
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Chuck Gabriel

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Re: VB dot sharp?
« Reply #11 on: June 02, 2006, 06:43:46 PM »
Quote from: Swift on June 02, 2006, 06:33:25 PM
I've just been learning c++ for 6 years, by the time I am comfortable and proficient with it, it will be obsolete.

Don't believe the hype!!  Besides, a lot of what you've been learning will be helpful in a variety of other languages including C#.
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Re: VB dot sharp?
« Reply #12 on: June 02, 2006, 08:59:43 PM »
Learn them all Bob, you know you want to.


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Re: VB dot sharp?
« Reply #13 on: June 04, 2006, 03:25:13 AM »
C# definately! < snicker >
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Re: VB dot sharp?
« Reply #14 on: June 04, 2006, 11:44:00 AM »
Quote from: LE on June 02, 2006, 05:52:25 PM
Quote from: Bobby C. Jones on June 02, 2006, 04:58:57 PM
opposite of what I've found with acad developers in general.

Do you want to share what you found?  :-)
At an ADN conference several years ago, when the acad .NET API was shiny and new, Microsoft had donated some C#.NET and some VB.NET books for adesk to give away.  The VB books went *fast*, the C# books where around for quite some time after the conference ended.  Although they all did eventually get snatched up.  This was my first exposure to this phenomenon.

Sometime after that I sat in on an adesk webcast on the .NET API.   They had a poll on what languages the attendees where using.  VB was the big winner.

And at all of my AU classes I have asked for a show of hands for who is using VB.NET and who is using C#.  The overwhelming majority is always VB.  But I still do all my examples in C#  :evil:  (I may include some VB examples this year)

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