Hi all, I was just reading the following article Introduction to NUnit... and was introduced to Attributes. I'm a noob so I've never seen this before or read about it. I understand that it allows you to define metadata within your program and so on... My question is more so about format than understanding. I was wondering if I put in an attribute right above on function if that attribute is assigned to all functions below it until another attribute is reached. For instance:

[SetUp]
public void init()
{
Person person = new Person();
}

public void foo()
{...}

Will the attribute [SetUp] be for both init and foo, or just init? Thanks, Jeramy

V, Thank you for the reply. I think I have a great .Net with C# book (I guess I'll find out once I've read it all the way through). I was unaware that I could get SQL Server Express. That's definitely good to know. Thanks, Jeramy

Awesome. I will definitely look into WPF more.

Ron, Thank you for your reply and safe wishes. I am no longer serving our country in the military though. I just separated from the US Navy, and am now going back out to Afghanistan to support the troops as a contractor. I'm currently reading two books to learn the basics of C#, Rob Miles C# Yellow Pages and Pro C# 2012 and .NET 4.5 The Pro C# 2012 book has a section on WPF. How much information do I need on WPF to be able to put together a small program? Thanks, Jeramy

Hey guys got a ? that I know is going to get a very objective answer, but here goes anyways. I'm deploying to Afghanistan soon, so I'll have some time at nights to read without interruption from the kids. I'm a beginner programmer, learning the basics of c#. Should I get a book on ASP.net MVC 4, or WFP 4.5? I'm down with learning both desktop development and web development. Thanks for any input!

Hi all. I just recently moved to Fayetteville, NC from Washington State, and also recently joined this meetup group. I'm a noobie programmer, and would really like to form a mentor / protege relationship with someone so that I can learn how to become a great programmer. I work shift work, usually from 530 to 530 (switching every three months from AM to PM) so it's pretty hard for me to get out to Raleigh for these meetups. Do any of you guys live close to Fayetteville or Hope Mills?

I've taken college courses with C, C++, and some C#.

Hi all, I'm pretty much a noob programmer, but I think that I've learned all the very basics pretty well. Now I feel like in order to advance my skills I need to work on some project. My problem is, I don't have any good ideas of my own so I'd like to find a good open source project to work on. Can any of you guys/gals suggest an open source project that I could join that wouldn't be too complicated for me to help out with? Thanks, Jeramy

I thought it was called String because we are "stringing" along characters. Since it's really an array of single characters, that makes sense to me.

What IRC client would you suggest for Windows 7?

Yeah I got mine Monday also. I've read about the first 100 or so pages and done all the exercises. Haven't learned anything new so far, but I'm reading it in conjunction with PRO C# and .NET 2010 which is explaining a whole lot of things I never even new existed.

Are there any programmers, here on the forums, that live in any of the following areas: Seattle, Everette, Burlington, or Bellingham?

I was just wondering if there are any C# programmers in the Oak Harbor, WA area that may be willing to meet up at SBs or Whidbey Coffee every now and then. I really could use a good programming mentor.

Doh, thank you. I looked for an appropriate forum, but missed it.

I was just wondering if there are any C# programmers in the Oak Harbor, WA area that may be willing to meet up at SBs or Whidbey Coffee every now and then. I really could use a good programming mentor.

Thank you. After reading that it kind of reminds me of how I used buffers in C.

When would I use stringbuilder over just string? I just read about it in a book but it doesn't explain why you would use it.

Thank you. This cleared up my confusion.

Thank you!

Karthik, I'm still a little confused. I know that the foreach statement requires a type that has implemented the IEnumerable or IEnumerator interface, what I don't understand is why the line IEnumerable employees = root.Elements() even works. I didn't implement the IEnumerable interface in a class anywhere. I just used that statement. In the book I'm reading it says that interfaces have to be a part of the classes declaration, for instance: public class Myclass : IEnumerable Since I didn't do that, does the compiler make an object with the proper code for me, from the first code example?