Anyone doing any? And I mean real apps not just hello world!!!

What IDE do you use, webmatrix .net or other? experiences thoughts? Just curious, looking to do some web based stuff with asp.net, done a reasonable amount of ASP and as I understand it I can use c# as the underlying language rather than VB, is that so?

cheers

Gary

 

Yep doing some at the mo. I'm using Visual Studio.Net Enterprise Architect.

Very impressed with it overall. Prefer C# over VB.net as the latter has ugly syntax when you want to do anything fancy (MustInherit instead of abstract etc)

 

I'm using it, C# is much better than VB. Hopefully VB will die now.

 

SL2,

Are you building apps with web forms? Are they closer to delivering a rich GUI experience than good old HTML forms of old?
It should have been drowned at birth if you ask me

Gary

 

VB earnt me £50 an hour for lots of years! I'm glad it didn't die!

 

Fosters,

More power to ya mate! Personally I think its vastly over-rated but hey no-one can stop the M$ juggernaut!

So are you doing VB.net now? Ive heard that VB.net is so different to VB that making the leap is tricky

Gary

 

I went from VB/C++ -> Java -> VB.net/C#

VB.net is like a screwed up C# if you ask me. If you're going to learn dot net, do yourself a favour and go C# from the off

 

VB.net is basically a new language - not a minor tweak to VB. If you're going to use .net you may as well do it properly and learn C#.

We're building real apps and use Visual Studio as our IDE.

(When I say we - us managers don't actually get our hands dirty with actual coding.......)