37.5 hours per week

I currently only use C# 2005 Express, so would a VS2005 SP fix apply to this as well as VS? :confused:

"What do you mean you've never been to Alpha Centuri?" :laugh:

Very possible. Check out this article at Coding4Fun... Rocket Commander

I've never had any problems with Asus motherboards. I've built about 15 PC's all with Asus boards in and only one of them has had any problems. The one and only Epox motherboard I bought caused me no end of trouble though, so I had to send it back.

Yes, I consider myself to be a programmer (I don't work in programming though). I use Visual Studio to design my GUIs in, as I don't really see the need to code it (since this takes away time to work on the actual application) and I write my own database & communications code. I haven't had the need to write my own code to read disk sectors myself yet, so I use the standard library calls. If I ever need to, however, I'm sure I'll figure it out. I've never used COBOL, never heard of RPGII and I didn't like Pascal. I learned C years ago, and before that I learned Z80 Assembly language on my old Amstrad CPC. So, I've done quite a bit of in-depth programming, so, even though I now use VCS 2005 I don't think that makes me any less of a programmer.

I used to make DOS programs using Borland Turbo C 2.0, then in Borland C++ 3.1 (but I only used C since I didn't know C++) but gave that up about 1995. I switched to Visual Basic (go ahead, laugh!) because I didn't want to waste time coding forms, so VB was good for me because I could design my forms easily, and then concentrate on my program. Now though, I've given VB up, and I'm now doing Visual C# 2005 which is fantastic because it's back to a the C-like syntax that I loved (I prefered it over VB). So now I'm really happy :)

Being a hobbyist developer and not a company, it's not easy for me to do localisation in my apps as I can't pay someone to do it. About the best I can hope for is to use free web translators, but I dread to think what they might actually produce! :omg:

I use VC# 2005 Express, which has it's issues (like not remembering where I've moved a toolbar to, or that I've minimised my #region sections), but other than that I like the environment. I've moved to VC# 2005 from Visual Basic 6, so there's a . I plan on buying VS.2005 sometime, but while I'm still learning, Express is fine (and since it's free I can't really complain!).