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Hi All, I just got hired at a company that wants me to take code in PC-COBOL (I think that's what it's called although I am not 100% sure) that is from a mainframe they still have sitting around and port it to C#. Thing is, I've been spending all my time up til now in grad school for Astrophysics working with Perl and Linux and using Windows just to check my email. I have a solid C++/Win32 programming background all the way up to Visual Studio 6.0 however I am rather raw and I have no clue about where to start in how to even set up my own laptop to program in .NET. Do I install IIS? I know I should put Visual Studio.NET on it, yet what next? I guess I am starting from square one in a sense. And don't even mention COBOL. The only thing I know about COBOL is stories my parents told me about when they worked at Control Data in the '70's. Yet I am going to be working with this stuff five days a week now! And then porting it over to C# to boot. Are there any recommendations for books, conferences, or trainings that would support me? Thanks in advance.
Sincerely Yours, Brian Hart Department of Physics and Astronomy University of California, Irvine
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Hi All, I just got hired at a company that wants me to take code in PC-COBOL (I think that's what it's called although I am not 100% sure) that is from a mainframe they still have sitting around and port it to C#. Thing is, I've been spending all my time up til now in grad school for Astrophysics working with Perl and Linux and using Windows just to check my email. I have a solid C++/Win32 programming background all the way up to Visual Studio 6.0 however I am rather raw and I have no clue about where to start in how to even set up my own laptop to program in .NET. Do I install IIS? I know I should put Visual Studio.NET on it, yet what next? I guess I am starting from square one in a sense. And don't even mention COBOL. The only thing I know about COBOL is stories my parents told me about when they worked at Control Data in the '70's. Yet I am going to be working with this stuff five days a week now! And then porting it over to C# to boot. Are there any recommendations for books, conferences, or trainings that would support me? Thanks in advance.
Sincerely Yours, Brian Hart Department of Physics and Astronomy University of California, Irvine
HI, Brian, Since reading this, I want to help you with my great effort. I'm a .net developer in China, and I have two years experience of C# programming. The early I touched with C#, i found it very hard for me to get through, but things got better while I doing my work, which I mean that you should study C# till with some projects. That's a good way. And if you want further infos about learning C#, I'm very appreciate for your reply. The mail is Dunbar.Cui at Gmail.com.
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Hi All, I just got hired at a company that wants me to take code in PC-COBOL (I think that's what it's called although I am not 100% sure) that is from a mainframe they still have sitting around and port it to C#. Thing is, I've been spending all my time up til now in grad school for Astrophysics working with Perl and Linux and using Windows just to check my email. I have a solid C++/Win32 programming background all the way up to Visual Studio 6.0 however I am rather raw and I have no clue about where to start in how to even set up my own laptop to program in .NET. Do I install IIS? I know I should put Visual Studio.NET on it, yet what next? I guess I am starting from square one in a sense. And don't even mention COBOL. The only thing I know about COBOL is stories my parents told me about when they worked at Control Data in the '70's. Yet I am going to be working with this stuff five days a week now! And then porting it over to C# to boot. Are there any recommendations for books, conferences, or trainings that would support me? Thanks in advance.
Sincerely Yours, Brian Hart Department of Physics and Astronomy University of California, Irvine
Why on earth did they hire you then ? I'm guessing the job sucks so bad that only you applied ?
Brian Hart wrote:
Do I install IIS?
No, not unless you want to do web sites, that is what IIS is for. C# as a language is syntactically very similar to C++, but it's a very different language ( garbage collected, for a start ). I'd recommend buying this[^], although it's out of date, it's a good place to start. Mainly all you need to know is that .NET 2.0 has generics, which means strongly typed containers. The other stuff, you can live without essentially.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )
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Hi All, I just got hired at a company that wants me to take code in PC-COBOL (I think that's what it's called although I am not 100% sure) that is from a mainframe they still have sitting around and port it to C#. Thing is, I've been spending all my time up til now in grad school for Astrophysics working with Perl and Linux and using Windows just to check my email. I have a solid C++/Win32 programming background all the way up to Visual Studio 6.0 however I am rather raw and I have no clue about where to start in how to even set up my own laptop to program in .NET. Do I install IIS? I know I should put Visual Studio.NET on it, yet what next? I guess I am starting from square one in a sense. And don't even mention COBOL. The only thing I know about COBOL is stories my parents told me about when they worked at Control Data in the '70's. Yet I am going to be working with this stuff five days a week now! And then porting it over to C# to boot. Are there any recommendations for books, conferences, or trainings that would support me? Thanks in advance.
Sincerely Yours, Brian Hart Department of Physics and Astronomy University of California, Irvine
Hey, guys, maybe you have little misunderstanding of Client/Server. So fars as I know, you just need to install Visual Studio 2005 with Windows Vista enhancement hotfix. And that's all for your winform applications. And if you want to do the web developing, the IIS 7.0 is also needed on the Windows Vista. Our working based on Windows Server 2003, Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005. PS, I have one question: have you had any experience of C# programming ? ( I know you have other langugage programming exp)
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Hey, guys, maybe you have little misunderstanding of Client/Server. So fars as I know, you just need to install Visual Studio 2005 with Windows Vista enhancement hotfix. And that's all for your winform applications. And if you want to do the web developing, the IIS 7.0 is also needed on the Windows Vista. Our working based on Windows Server 2003, Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005. PS, I have one question: have you had any experience of C# programming ? ( I know you have other langugage programming exp)
--------------------------------- Believe what you saw!
Dunbar C wrote:
And if you want to do the web developing, the IIS 7.0 is also needed on the Windows Vista.
Even that is not strictly true, there's a web server built in to VS2005.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )
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Dunbar C wrote:
And if you want to do the web developing, the IIS 7.0 is also needed on the Windows Vista.
Even that is not strictly true, there's a web server built in to VS2005.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )
Christian Graus wrote:
Even that is not strictly true, there's a web server built in to VS2005.
Hah, Thanks for your kindly figured out. It's true you can VS2005 in-build web server to deploy your websites or web applications, but it has no configuration. It's just a simple web server provider and depends on the running VS2005.;P
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Hi All, I just got hired at a company that wants me to take code in PC-COBOL (I think that's what it's called although I am not 100% sure) that is from a mainframe they still have sitting around and port it to C#. Thing is, I've been spending all my time up til now in grad school for Astrophysics working with Perl and Linux and using Windows just to check my email. I have a solid C++/Win32 programming background all the way up to Visual Studio 6.0 however I am rather raw and I have no clue about where to start in how to even set up my own laptop to program in .NET. Do I install IIS? I know I should put Visual Studio.NET on it, yet what next? I guess I am starting from square one in a sense. And don't even mention COBOL. The only thing I know about COBOL is stories my parents told me about when they worked at Control Data in the '70's. Yet I am going to be working with this stuff five days a week now! And then porting it over to C# to boot. Are there any recommendations for books, conferences, or trainings that would support me? Thanks in advance.
Sincerely Yours, Brian Hart Department of Physics and Astronomy University of California, Irvine
U put u'r self in a very difficult condition.. try to learn COBOL first... get some book of it.. and then try to learn C#.net ..... may be this would help u out
