It's based on the way english reads. If the top is to the left it's back, if the top 'points' right, it's forward, indicating direction.

I get hell for calling them backslash and forwardslash

VSS is primarily reviled because no one has worked with for any amount of time in any volume and not had to deal with database corruption, failed restoration operations, user conflicts, problems with multiple checkout, and issues relating to different shell integration packages.

TFS: Stable, reliable, built in automation, integrated project management, integrated collaboration and document management, fuzzy dice.

See: GAC deployment. You have to have some way to find your assemblies. If that doesn't work for you, try the path

The topic is why C# is awesome, not why you like VB better.

1. Methods anyone? 2. System.CodeDom.Compiler, System.Reflection.Assembly, etc 3. Maybe, but what can you really do with that in a managed language? If you're out of memory, you're out of memory. 4. Don't debug the framework, it defeats the purpose. Assume the framework works, report bugs you find, work around ones they don't fix. If you *really* need to debug it, decompile, proxy, rinse, repeat.

What do programming languages and breakfast cereals have in common? Answer: The amount of sugar is inversely proportional to how well informed the consumer is.

I suppose that depends entirely on what you find sexy.

At the risk of accusing you of never having decompiled anything, they don't do the same thing. VB's is more flexible, but functionally they serve different purposes, even if they can accomplish the same thing. Also, VB is dangerous. Two in 10 VB devs I've met are aware of option strict and out of those at least one advises against using it.

I have a 26" viewsonic CRT I keep around mostly for posterity. Another reason it sticks around is I don't have any men about to lift it!

@Reelix Sounds to me like you just need a better job. Send over you resume and we'll see if we can't fix that problem. :-D

There's also the significantly improved f12 tools in ie9, in my opinion the best feature therein. I know everyone will cry 'BUT FIREBUG/CHROME DEVELOPER TOOLS.' Honestly? I find them garish and occupy more space than I care to commit to a UI for debugging an xml dom. I'm not by any stretch of the imagination a 'who needs an IDE when you have viedit' zealot, but I tend to grade my expectation of the UI complexity to the importance of the task. /bunnytrail

Nope. I've never experienced most of the problems people talk about. I'm just lucky though, everyone else can't be wrong.

Directed Expression Retrieval Pattern (DERP for short)

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Dude, you should be viewing this as an opportunity to show them how to encrypt their data using UTF-16. And then when that fails, UTF-32. They should be out of business at that point, but on the bright side you'll have all their money (provided they haven't decided they need to implement NFC access directly to your bank account by that point).

That's only because the circles tried to redimension themselves as squares at runtime.

Hey, some people *like* the French. (Though I have no idea as to why)

They just refer to it as "The Community."