Posted: 11/19/2004 7:28:25 AM EDT
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Easy to learn? Relative concept.... Can you learn syntax and make things work very easily? Yes. .NET is probably one of the best development environments that exists. (Progress is another goodie) You still must understand fundamental concepts like object orientation, data architecture, and user interface engineering, etc... Depends on what level you want to play. Whidbey (the next version of Visual Studio) is going to kick even more ass than it does now. |
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Yes, if you don't know anything yet, get Whidbey and play with it. Otherwise, you'll be pissed off when you spend a week writing login code, etc. for a week when you find out that you can just drag a control onto the form and you're done. We saw MONTHS worth of development time duplicated in five minutes and a few lines of code with 2.0.  |
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Buy a MSDN subscription from Microsoft and you will get access to lots of beta stuff. The betas are readily available by requesting them. Oracle OCP, MCSE+i & MCSD here, so if you need help let me know. This is all I do all day long (work in .NET). There's another cool tool that you might want to check out that will connect to a database and generate C# or VB.NET code a la their own patters (which are pretty good). Codecharge from YesSoftware. It's a few hundred $$. |
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lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/ Disclaimer... this is Beta 1, use at your own risk. I haven't had any troubles... yet... |