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  • C Chris Maunder

    With everything going web based I predict that everything will be one big client side Javascript app. The meek shall inherit the desktop. cheers, Chris Maunder

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    Stephane Rodriguez
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    Missing <sarcasm> tag.

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    • S Smitha Nishant

      One advantage I have had using .NET for application development is, its library is so vast that lots of things are readymade. You can always concentrate on the programming logic without having to waste your time on developing libraries for implementation. Smitha The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. --Eleanor Roosevelt

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      Stephane Rodriguez
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      Smitha Vijayan wrote: You can always concentrate on the programming logic without having to waste your time on developing libraries for implementation. That's very untrue. You need to know how the .NET libraries are implemented before you can come up with derived treeviews for instance that behave well. And don't get me started on that interop mess.

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      • S Stephane Rodriguez

        Missing <sarcasm> tag.

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        Chris Maunder
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        Am I? :D cheers, Chris Maunder

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          kuphryn wrote: _According to several articles on the future of Windows development, .NET is taking over Windows. http://www.codeproject.com/interview/interview\_msdn\_0103.asp http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats/vstudio/vstudio\_121802.asp http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,642737,00.asp_ Which reminds me the poor level of free articles, wherever they come from. .NET is a virtual machine + a class library sitting on top of Windows. .NET is a WIN32 client, not the opposite, and I can't figure out how many tens of ghz CPU you would need in order to make an hypothetic .NET-centric OS run seamlessly (not to mention the GBs of source code you would need to make this happen).

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          At least we offer a money back guarantee. cheers, Chris Maunder

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            Smitha Vijayan wrote: You can always concentrate on the programming logic without having to waste your time on developing libraries for implementation. That's very untrue. You need to know how the .NET libraries are implemented before you can come up with derived treeviews for instance that behave well. And don't get me started on that interop mess.

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            Chris Austin
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            .S.Rod. wrote: come up with derived treeviews for instance that behave well. I will attest to this; at work I wasted half a day on what was susposed to be a simple derived treeview. Not to mention I am not happy with the overall performance of the app....just seems slugish Hey don't worry, I can handle it. I took something. I can see things no one else can see. Why are you dressed like that? - Jack Burton

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            • S Stephane Rodriguez

              kuphryn wrote: _According to several articles on the future of Windows development, .NET is taking over Windows. http://www.codeproject.com/interview/interview\_msdn\_0103.asp http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats/vstudio/vstudio\_121802.asp http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,642737,00.asp_ Which reminds me the poor level of free articles, wherever they come from. .NET is a virtual machine + a class library sitting on top of Windows. .NET is a WIN32 client, not the opposite, and I can't figure out how many tens of ghz CPU you would need in order to make an hypothetic .NET-centric OS run seamlessly (not to mention the GBs of source code you would need to make this happen).

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              Chris Austin
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              The java true bleivers have been sticking to the same thing for years...."just you wait till we get a native JAVA OS....blah blah blah" Hey don't worry, I can handle it. I took something. I can see things no one else can see. Why are you dressed like that? - Jack Burton

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              • C Chris Austin

                The java true bleivers have been sticking to the same thing for years...."just you wait till we get a native JAVA OS....blah blah blah" Hey don't worry, I can handle it. I took something. I can see things no one else can see. Why are you dressed like that? - Jack Burton

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                Rick York
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                What they don't tell you is that it has been out for a while. They are still waiting for it to boot. :) The Ten Commandments For C Programmers

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                • C Chris Maunder

                  With everything going web based I predict that everything will be one big client side Javascript app. The meek shall inherit the desktop. cheers, Chris Maunder

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                  Michael P Butler
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                  Chris Maunder wrote: The meek shall inherit the desktop. Shouldn't that be the weak (coder) shall inherit the desktop. And since when was inheritence part of JavaScript ;-) Michael 'War is at best barbarism...Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.' - General William Sherman, 1879

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                    Chris Maunder wrote: The meek shall inherit the desktop. Shouldn't that be the weak (coder) shall inherit the desktop. And since when was inheritence part of JavaScript ;-) Michael 'War is at best barbarism...Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.' - General William Sherman, 1879

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                    Roger Wright
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                    Michael P Butler wrote: since when was inheritence part of JavaScript Isn't that in JScript.NET?;) Ancient man conquered his rivals with the jawbone of an ass; modern man uses the jawbone of a politician.

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                      Chris Maunder wrote: The meek shall inherit the desktop. Shouldn't that be the weak (coder) shall inherit the desktop. And since when was inheritence part of JavaScript ;-) Michael 'War is at best barbarism...Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.' - General William Sherman, 1879

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                      Chris Maunder
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                      I was trying to find a way to slip in an inheritants joke with Javascript but just couldn't get one to work... cheers, Chris Maunder

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                      • R Rick York

                        What they don't tell you is that it has been out for a while. They are still waiting for it to boot. :) The Ten Commandments For C Programmers

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                        :laugh::laugh::laugh:

                        Olli Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot......
                        :suss: :rolleyes: :suss:

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                        • R Rick York

                          What they don't tell you is that it has been out for a while. They are still waiting for it to boot. :) The Ten Commandments For C Programmers

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                          • N Nish Nishant

                            kuphryn wrote: What the heck is up with people liking Java and .NET? Ease of use No memory leaks Fewer crashes Easier to learn for newbies Requires less amount of hard work to master Does not require high IQ Garbage collection Massive class library MS marketing Nish


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                            About Java: Nishant S wrote: Does not require high IQ Easier to learn for newbies Ease of use In that I agree, because the interface is a lot more simple than C++, and for most purposes Java is sufficient. Nishant S wrote: Requires less amount of hard work to master This is where disagree. You are assuming that you only have to master a programming language to be a master programmer. But there are a lot of other skills required: 1) The ability to write code that is easy to read and understand. 2) Knowledge of patterns and the ability to know when to apply them. 3) To be able to model a real world problem into code. 4) A general understanding of Database, Operating systems and communication techniques. "After all it's just text at the end of the day. - Colin Davies "For example, when a VB programmer comes to my house, they may say 'does your pool need cleaning, sir ?' " - Christian Graus

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                            • C Chris Maunder

                              Am I? :D cheers, Chris Maunder

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                              Stephane Rodriguez
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                              I can't remember a post from you where you aren't being sarcastic. But I love it, anyway...

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                              • C Chris Maunder

                                At least we offer a money back guarantee. cheers, Chris Maunder

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                                Stephane Rodriguez
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                                Lotsa PR lately. After all, Cp is a MS site, so I guess it's ok. The only thing I would hate is that it comes to the point it behaves like this C|Net whore.

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                                • V valikac

                                  Hi. I posted a topic a few days ago about the future of COM. Overall, most responses implied that COM in general has and will become .NET legacy. The bottomline is Microsoft is dropping COM for .NET. Microsoft will release Longhorn and I am sure they are working on other versions of their line of OS. According to several articles on the future of Windows development, .NET is taking over Windows. http://www.codeproject.com/interview/interview\_msdn\_0103.asp http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats/vstudio/vstudio\_121802.asp http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,642737,00.asp What is the future of C++ programming in Windows? Microsoft can make C++ obsolete under Windows as they push .NET. I have no problem with .NET. I am just curious about C++ programming in Windows because, well, it is fun! Thanks, Kuphryn

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                                  John Burton
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                                  My opinion is that C++ will slowly decline *for new projects* over the next 10 years or so. It's certainly not going away, and it's by no means dead for new projects, but it will become harder and harder to justify as being the best option. For high performance apps C# and VB will become much more common as they offer good enough performance and are much easier to learn/write/debug than C++. The .NET runtime is putting people of for now but in a couple of years it will be as common as the C runtime library which nobody even thinks about how it gets installed any more. For many other windows application I think things like Python will become much more common. For speed and ease of development these kind of languages can't be beaten and it's starting to look to me like python might be the first langauge of this type to achieve enough critical mass of development to break into the mainstream for real applications. Once you've used a language with automatic memory management it's hard to go back. And there are fewer and fewer reasons to need to any more.

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                                    Hi. I posted a topic a few days ago about the future of COM. Overall, most responses implied that COM in general has and will become .NET legacy. The bottomline is Microsoft is dropping COM for .NET. Microsoft will release Longhorn and I am sure they are working on other versions of their line of OS. According to several articles on the future of Windows development, .NET is taking over Windows. http://www.codeproject.com/interview/interview\_msdn\_0103.asp http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats/vstudio/vstudio\_121802.asp http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,642737,00.asp What is the future of C++ programming in Windows? Microsoft can make C++ obsolete under Windows as they push .NET. I have no problem with .NET. I am just curious about C++ programming in Windows because, well, it is fun! Thanks, Kuphryn

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                                    Brakanjan
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                                    Can u explain to the uneducated (probably just me, o well) the fundamental diffs between COM and NET. And while your at it, ASP and ASP.NET. Why not C++.NET? I'm c:~ nfused

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                                    • C Chris Maunder

                                      With everything going web based I predict that everything will be one big client side Javascript app. The meek shall inherit the desktop. cheers, Chris Maunder

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                                      Paul Watson
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                                      Dude, you have it wrong. With everything going web it will all be one big client side is Flash MX remoting app, with ActionScript. *drool* :rolleyes:

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                                      • P Paul M Watt

                                        I suspect if you get a job at Microsoft and develop the .Net runtime you will still be able to use C++ :)


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                                        Paul Watt wrote: I suspect if you get a job at Microsoft and develop the .Net runtime you will still be able to use C++ Look at Rotor's source. You'll become disappointed. Mostly made in C#.


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                                        • V valikac

                                          Hi. I posted a topic a few days ago about the future of COM. Overall, most responses implied that COM in general has and will become .NET legacy. The bottomline is Microsoft is dropping COM for .NET. Microsoft will release Longhorn and I am sure they are working on other versions of their line of OS. According to several articles on the future of Windows development, .NET is taking over Windows. http://www.codeproject.com/interview/interview\_msdn\_0103.asp http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats/vstudio/vstudio\_121802.asp http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,642737,00.asp What is the future of C++ programming in Windows? Microsoft can make C++ obsolete under Windows as they push .NET. I have no problem with .NET. I am just curious about C++ programming in Windows because, well, it is fun! Thanks, Kuphryn

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                                          Do you believe everything Microsoft says? You must be a Republican. :-D Marc Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
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