Re: Has MS given up on us (again)?


"Michael C" <mike@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Scott M." <smar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Clearly, you don't fully understand the C# language then. While it is
not a major undertaking to learn it, moving an entire company's
developers to it (without them having some kind of Java or C style
background) in one day just indicates that you haven't really learned all
the facets to the language.

What exactly don't we understand. If there is something we were missing
then we must have been missing it in VB and hence not important to us.

I'm sorry but I just don't believe that in one day an entire company's
development workforce completely learned the C# programming language.

For example (and this is just a short list), you're saying that in one day
you all became proficient with:

-Declaring and instantiating delegates and then manually registering the
listener delegate as an event handler for your controls (None of which has
to be done at all in VB .NET).

-Setting up indexers for your indexable properties.

-Understanding checked and unchecked expressions

-Understaning safe and unsafe code

-Verbaitim string expressions

-Understanding how the VS IDE works differently in C# and how that affects
the way you write your code

Again, I'm not trying to say that switching is any kind of monumental task.
I just think you are either embellishing your company's true experience in
switching or your company doesn't know all they think they do in C# yet.

-Scott


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