Please note: this is not a “my language is better than yours“ post. It is simply an observation. :-)
Before I discovered blogs, I read usenet pretty consistently. I was able to ignore the crap and find what I needed. Hell, I actually used to post to usenet, but that was before my email address was harvested and spam flood-gate was opened (my earliest post was sometime in 1994 and it looks like I stopped posting in 2001).
Anyway, there has always been a high noise-to-signal ratio in usenet. Not only is there a lot of crap in terms of spam, but you have a lot of people who STILL insist upon posting before conducting any type of search first. I don't know how many times I've seen the "can I install a .NET app without the framework" question asked in the same newsgroup.
The point of this post is to talk about something I saw in the microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.windowsforms newsgroup today. Someone had a question about changing the backcolor of an MDI form. They said that they had found code, but that it was in C# and they were unable to get through it. They then requested some VB.NET code. I looked at the code in question. Granted, it was a lot of Interop code, but still...in the whole scheme of things, it certainly isn't rocket science.
Besides one project last year that required me to use VB.NET, I've been using C# exclusively. I came from a strong VB Classic background with little formal CS education (my background is actually in Criminal Justice). I did NOT find the move to C# difficult in any way, shape or form. I do not understand how anyone that calls themself a programmer cannot port a snippet of C# to VB.NET. Are the curly braces and the semi-colons too much for people?
Of course, a quick Google search for “vb.net mdi backcolor” came up with this. So, now I'm not sure what's worse...the fact that the guy couldn't port the code or the fact that he couldn't use Google. :-\
Print | posted on Thursday, November 04, 2004 10:04 AM