Re: CF to .Net - recommended training?

2008-11-10 Thread Aaron Rouse
Yeap and every place I have talked to and every person I know who does it continuly runs into MS shops that want and expect their programmers to be using the MS tools. On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:59 PM, Dave Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think it would be career suicide to not learn Visu

Re: CF to .Net - recommended training?

2008-11-10 Thread Dave Watts
> I think it would be career suicide to not learn Visual > Studio if embarking down the path of being a .NET > developer. I am going to make a guess here but I do not > think doing .NET development is what you do for a primary > source of income to put food on the table. There are plenty of C# de

Re: CF to .Net - recommended training?

2008-11-10 Thread Aaron Rouse
I think it would be career suicide to not learn Visual Studio if embarking down the path of being a .NET developer. I am going to make a guess here but I do not think doing .NET development is what you do for a primary source of income to put food on the table. On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Da

Re: CF to .Net - recommended training?

2008-11-10 Thread Dave Watts
> I learned C# and Visual Studio at the same time, kind of have to have one to > do the other. No, you can write C# with whatever you like. I like the (free) SharpDevelop.NET IDE, myself. But if you plan to use Visual Studio, you can certainly learn them simultaneously. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf

Re: CF to .Net - recommended training?

2008-11-10 Thread Aaron Rouse
I learned C# and Visual Studio at the same time, kind of have to have one to do the other. On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 1:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok. So it sounds like learning C# is a good place to get started. > Thanks all. Would anyone recommend a g

Re: CF to .Net - recommended training?

2008-11-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ok. So it sounds like learning C# is a good place to get started. Thanks all. Would anyone recommend a good path or order for tackling it all? Is learning C# the best idea? Should I get more familiar with Visual Dev product first? Thanks >> I've played with both. VB is far more bloated tha

RE: CF to .Net - recommended training?

2008-11-10 Thread Robert Harrison
> C Sharp? > Visual Basic? I've played with both. VB is far more bloated than C#, but VB is also used for developing Windows applications. If you are going to be developing only for web, then C# is far more compact and clean. If you are also going to be developing Windows applications, VB is mor

Re: CF to .Net - recommended training?

2008-11-10 Thread Dave Watts
> I've played with both. VB is far more bloated than C#, but VB is also used > for developing Windows applications. So is C#. Anything you can do with one .NET language, you can do with another. > If you are going to be developing only for web, then C# is far more compact > and clean. If you are

Re: CF to .Net - recommended training?

2008-11-10 Thread Mike Chabot
http://www.asp.net/learn/ is a good place to start. I recommend the video tutorials. If your company has already made the decision to go with .NET then there is a good chance that the person that made that decision has already decided on the preferred programming language. Are you sure you have a c

Re: CF to .Net - recommended training?

2008-11-10 Thread Aaron Rouse
I would not mess with VB and found a lot of people share that preference. I have been through a couple of the .NET training courses and did not leave all that impressed with the course. Felt like had I spent the same amount of time with a book or two that I would have ultimately been much better