[AccessD]OT: C# was no-ip.com

That's even more ridiculous that ads that want 10 years of experience
developing in Access.  Of course, by now you could *have* 10 years
experience with Access, but you couldn't really do much "development"
with version 1.0, although it was fun to play with.

Charlotte Foust

-----Original Message-----
From: Marcus, Scott (GEAE, Contractor) [mailto:scott.marcus at ae.ge.com] 
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 8:03 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: RE: [AccessD]OT: C# was no-ip.com


John,

You must have read the same article as me (actually editors comments).
I'm leaning VB.Net first and then adding C# to my skills. Seems silly to
me that C# pulls in more money. Like you, that is why I'm going to learn
it also. Have you seen any silly job postings like "C# developer with 5
years experience..."?

Have you found that your Access framework already has equivalents in
.Net framework?

I'm not far enough into .Net to have an opinion yet. I can say that if
it is similar to how Java works, I won't like it. I hear that C# is very
close to Java.

What I've learned in VB.Net so far seems pretty straight forward.

My only doubts about .Net is that I'm not seeing very many job postings
for .Net developers (but allot more than Access development).

Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: jcolby at colbyconsulting.com [mailto:jcolby at colbyconsulting.com]
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 11:47 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: RE: [AccessD]OT: C# was no-ip.com


Scott,

Not yet, though I think I will end up there.  I'm thinking that learning
VB.Net and more importantly the .net framework FIRST will be most useful
to me.  The framework is massive and being comfortable with that is a
requirement regardless of the language you then use for your
programming.

Once that is done I will probably move to C# for the simple reason that
the polls indicate C# programmers get better money.  I did a controller
project down in Mexico in a custom 'C' language so it isn't totally
foreign.

Again though, the whole point of the .Net concept is that the framework
really provides about 90% of the functionality and it is used EXACTLY
the same regardless of the language you use.  The language itself is
really a thin veneer over the top of the framework.  Even things like
variables are framework objects so that any .net language can literally
pass their variables back and forth without the silly problems like you
see with VB and C not treating strings the same way.

John W. Colby
www.colbyconsulting.com

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