Hello all,
I have been using Visual Studio (VB) for almost 3 years.
I mainly do database (MYSQL) stuff. BUt I am looking into expanding my programming skills. If there are any other VB.NET programmers out there, I would like to talk with you about VB.NET.

Scottie

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Re: Visual Studio Programmer
By: Scottie to All on Thu Nov 11 2010 05:58 pm

I have been using Visual Studio (VB) for almost 3 years.
I mainly do database (MYSQL) stuff. BUt I am looking into expanding my programming skills. If there are any other VB.NET programmers out there, I would like to talk with you about VB.NET.

We use Visual Studio for everything at work, but we've moved from Visual Basic to C# which seems to be a common trend. Most companies from what I've seen look at Visual Basic as almost legacy and like us we're deprecating our Visual Basic code.

But I still have much more VB experience than C#, so I guess you could call me a VB programmer :) But I'm moving more to Mono and C# for my personal projects moving forward.

Sam


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Re: Visual Studio Programmer
By: Scottie to All on Thu Nov 11 2010 05:58 pm

I have been using Visual Studio (VB) for almost 3 years.
I mainly do database (MYSQL) stuff. BUt I am looking into expanding my programming skills. If there are any other VB.NET programmers out there, I would like to talk with you about VB.NET.

We use Visual Studio for everything at work, but we've moved from Visual Basic to C# which seems to be a common trend. Most companies from what
I've seen look at Visual Basic as almost legacy and like us we're deprecating our Visual Basic code.

But I still have much more VB experience than C#, so I guess you could call me a VB programmer :) But I'm moving more to Mono and C# for my personal projects moving forward.

Sam

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Well, I have tried my hand at c# but I just cant wrap my mind around using the commands. I guess I have gotten use to using VB. I would like to start
learning c# again. Most of the tuts that I find online are vage at best. Would you happen to know any useful links that can get me started in using c#?

I personally would love to be able to write add-ins/mods for all sorts of software but like you said. Everything is going c#.

Scottie

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Well, I have tried my hand at c# but I just cant wrap my mind around using the commands. I guess I have gotten use to using VB. I would like to start learning c# again. Most of the tuts that I find online are vage at best. Would you happen to know any useful links that can get me started in using c#?

I personally would love to be able to write add-ins/mods for all sorts of software but like you said. Everything is going c#.

Microsoft has some decent tutorials here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa288436%28VS.71%29.aspx

.. and csharphelp.com, csharpkey.com, and sharpertutorials.com are sites dedicated to C# though csharphelp.com is the one I prefer.

Also grab some of the O'Reilly or Microsoft books on C# and avoid the Head Start books. If you have a local bookstore with a decent computer section thumb through the C# books and see which one stands out for you. I don't know what your goals are for coding, but they have general knowledge books and
books on more specific tasks like networking or otherwise.

I'm still VERY green at C# myself, so I'm right there with ya :)

Sam

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Re: Visual Studio Programmer
By: Sam Alexander to Scottie on Wed Nov 17 2010 09:08:35

We use Visual Studio for everything at work, but we've moved from Visual Bas to C# which seems to be a common trend. Most companies from what I've seen look at Visual Basic as almost legacy and like us we're deprecating our Visu Basic code.

I've done more C# than VB.NET, but it looked to me like VB.NET and C# are almost the same languages, aren't they? From what I've heard, I thought the main differences are the syntax and that C# only has a few more things you can do that aren't available in VB.NET.

Nightfox

Nightfox wrote:

I've done more C# than VB.NET, but it looked to me like VB.NET and C# are almost the same languages, aren't they? From what I've heard, I thought the main differences are the syntax and that C# only has a few more things you can
do that aren't available in VB.NET.

With 2010 they have a lot of parity at this point.. The syntax differences are dramatic. VB doesn't have a lambda equivalent, and C# doesn't have XML literals. This can be a real pain point at times depending on what you're trying to do in either. Most of my day-job work is C# and HTML/JavaScript... A lot of my side work has been in VB.Net and Flex/Actionscript. Mainly for web based apps.

I really wish they'd add the XML literal notation to C# (would also welcome inline regex syntax, but that's wishful thinking).

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Re: Visual Studio Programmer
By: Scottie to All on Thu Nov 11 2010 05:58 pm

I have been using Visual Studio (VB) for almost 3 years.
I mainly do database (MYSQL) stuff. BUt I am looking into expanding

my

programming skills. If there are any other VB.NET programmers out

there,

I would like to talk with you about VB.NET.

We use Visual Studio for everything at work, but we've moved from Visual Basic to C# which seems to be a common trend. Most companies from what I've seen look at Visual Basic as almost legacy and like us we're deprecating our Visual Basic code.

But I still have much more VB experience than C#, so I guess you could call
me a VB programmer :) But I'm moving more to Mono and C# for my
personal
projects moving forward.

Sam

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Well, I have tried my hand at c# but I just cant wrap my mind around using the
commands. I guess I have gotten use to using VB. I would like to start learning c# again. Most of the tuts that I find online are vage at best. Would
you happen to know any useful links that can get me started in using c#?

I personally would love to be able to write add-ins/mods for all sorts of software but like you said. Everything is going c#.

Scottie

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For every beer, should be a shot of whiskey.
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What I find interesting, asuming I haven't missed a change since VB.net 2005 is that C# and VB.NET both end compiled into the same intermediary language. So in some ways it doesn't matter. More so just personal preferance.

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Ddraig wrote:

What I find interesting, asuming I haven't missed a change since VB.net 2005 is that C# and VB.NET both end compiled into the same intermediary language. So in some ways it doesn't matter. More so just personal preferance.

Mostly, there are a few language tweaks and features better in one or the other... XML Literals in VB.Net, or better Lambdas and dynamics objects in C#

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