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But then you got a whole extra year, and you still didn't get there!
Pull your finger out, mate!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Ah, but I didn't commit to doing anything in 2016.
I'll discern appropriate actions when 2017 comes around...
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One of mine was to complete the CQRS designer project.
How did I do on that? Well let's just say one of my 2017 resolutions is to complete the CQRS designer project
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I'll probably have my New Year's resolution done in a month or two? Does that count? It doesn't On the bright side I've been working a year already on my New Year's resolution for next year
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My resolution 2 years ago was to eat anything I wanted and gain 10 pounds. I failed, in that I only gained 5 pounds.
My resolution last year was to eat anything I wanted and gain 5 pounds. Mission successful!
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Very easy one today as 99% of people are probably on holiday next week so won't want to answer ...
Follow commercial in television programme (6)
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Shadow
Ad (advert) in show
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Yes, that's the one - I guess that makes you the CCC Christmas champion (the CCCCC?)
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Is it OK if I resume on Wednesday? Tuesday is a bang collar day here
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I can't imagine there'll be too many people around on Tuesday. Personally, I'll be giving my keyboard a rest for the whole week. 10 glorious .NET free days - what more can a man ask for?
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Last year we cancelled it until the new year it seems, so I'm happy if you want to re-start on Monday 2nd, or possibly Tuesday 3rd.
Since most of the western world shuts down for the week between Xmas and New Year it does make some sense.
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Having been a hobbyist coder since 1900 and frozen to death, I've always used VB and VB.net; I know, I know, we don't need to go there! Anyway, as I'm now starting to get on in years, I think it's time I learnt a new programming language and C# comes to mind.
My question is, can someone recommend a good beginners book on C#? I know about Rob Miles' The C# Programming Yellow Book but this is only available on Kindle. I need an actual book. I don't really want one of those 'Learn C# in 24 Hours' nonsense; I'd like something that eases you into the language and then gets into the more technical stuff.
Any recommendations; any book(s) that anyone has found really useful?
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I'm using the second recommended book to learn .Net Core and C#, and it looks a good book but I'm not that far into it yet. Well written with everything clearly described. I'm having problems with some of the illustrations though. They don't match the actual screens in the installed code - ASP.NET 2015 Community Edition - which is a bit off-putting..
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C# == VB.NET with slightly different syntax.
Some people may argue on the "slightly" part, but unless you still use VB6 libraries in your VB.NET code I think it would be more helpful to get a C# vs. VB.NET syntax comparison.
Something like this: VB.NET and C# Comparison[^]
Or this: Complete Comparison for VB.NET and C#[^]
Google is your friend.
I've switched from VB.NET to C# and only found myself really struggling with syntax on the first day and looking things up in the first month or so.
Any book on C# will probably spend one chapter on syntax and 10 chapters on stuff you already know like IO, Serialization, Collections, etc.
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Sander Rossel wrote: I've switched from VB.NET to C# and only found myself really struggling with syntax on the first day and looking things up in the first month or so.
In my case, then about once every 2 months getting really annoyed that you can't put an enum in an interface definition...
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enum in an interface definition?
I'm not sure what you mean, but I guess I didn't know that was possible in either language
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What continuously throws me off is the different default access modifiers.
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Ouch yes - I have never successfully done "MustInherit" in C# without a Google brain refresh
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It's virtual , no wait static , no wait abstract
I now have these kinds of problems when I have to switch back to VB
Public Shared Class ... wait
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Isn't one of the first "best practices" suggestions to be explicit? I know I put all my access mods out. Helps when you do VB.NET and C# at the same time.
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Yes it is.
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