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Robert Edward Caldecott wrote:
am not convinced that MS have done a great job at selling the idea of .NET to the existing development community
I agree. It wasn't until I started reading some of the C# articles here on CP that I realised how powerful C# was.
Coming from MFC, the .NET UI classes still disappoint me as they lack the sophistication I have become accustomed to.
However projects such as MyXaml[^] and Genghis[^] have helped overcome a lot of the shortcomings I found within .NET WinForms.
Microsoft could help itself, if online MSDN and MSDN magazine stopped concentrating on technologies that we don't have (Longhorn etc) and started writing articles to show the average developer (the one with 2+ years of legacy code) what .NET can really do for them.
For a supposedly pro-developer company, Microsoft fumbled the ball when selling .NET.
However now I've started to use it on real projects, I find I don't want to go back.
Michael
CP Blog [^]
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Michael P Butler wrote:
Microsoft could help itself, if online MSDN and MSDN magazine stopped concentrating on technologies that we don't have (Longhorn etc) and started writing articles to show the average developer (the one with 2+ years of legacy code) what .NET can really do for them.
Yep, all these Longhorn articles make me laugh. It will take probably 5+ years until I am in a position to actually use Longhorn technologies (not before Longhorn takes at least 50% of the market). Sorry, but none of my customers have Longhorn on their computers - they mostly use Windows 2000.
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It looks like you dont appreciate the development time savings when using .NET (for some projects). In the IDE the code simply writes itself when you get on it. I can make a cross-platform(pc to pda) client server app in 10 minutes. If I had to use the old tools and the unwrapped sockets api it would have taken a week for me.
I am strictly talking about networking apps here. Don't use it for image processing.
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Vladimir Ralev wrote:
In the IDE the code simply writes itself when you get on it.
How do you get it to do that? I just created a new project and I sat there watching it. Then I thought maybe it was like an artist that doesn't like being watched so I went of and did something else for a while, but when I came back still nothing. I then realised that it didn't know what it was to do, so I wrote some comments at the top to let it know what I wanted it to produce (nothing fancy - just a little hello world type thing as a proof of concept you understand) and still nothing. I was getting worried I'd missed something so I looked in all the menus, and all the properties and all the options and I couldn't figure out what to do....
I've tried everything I can think of, so how do you get the IDE to write itself?
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Well, after setting up the class members you have to write(hehe) some code in the member functions.
Everything starts with "this." or "System.". After pressing the "." a list of options appears, so you just type few letters and three enter and the whole name is written.
Now I can do that very fast and more than 50% of the actual code pops from the list. That's what I am talking about.
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Do you know is there anything works like Crystal Report for Linux?
Thank you.
eric feng
www.infospec.com
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