learn .NET

I have stayed in the same job for 10 years and have been working with the same technologies all this time. This has left me unable to apply for other jobs. I have to do something about this situation.

We are currently using Scrum as our development model. I am going to start each sprint and do my own planning on how to introduce some means of .NET and other new technologies into this sprint.

This current sprint I’m going to code unit tests i NUnit, instead of CppUnit, which we have been using so far.

I’ve always been very negative on Microsoft, however, I thought .NET would be different because it seems like more of an open standard. However, I was very disappointed with C# and ASP.NET. It seems like even the simplest tasks require you write or generate needlessly complex code. I don’t think that Java or PHP are the greatest languages in the world, but I much prefer them to C# and ASP.NET.

I am a huge fan of functional programming so maybe when F# matures, I’ll revisit .NET. But, until then, I will stay away.

-Los

OK so currently I work with websites however I’m only half way through my degree and want to get something decent out of my placement so want to start learning .Net… anyone got any suggestions for starting out??

In the new year I want to get startet on .NET

I’m not currently on a .Net project, and it’s not really in my range of personal interests. I’m going to let this one go.

Hi,

I want to study .net again. However, I had built a little background on .net 1.1 but no idea on .net 2.

Do you suggest that I use the tutorials on .net 2 or .net 1.1??

its good we all have to do it .for try the better in the life

I’m rolling off of a J2EE project at the end of January, and will be transitioning into a production support roll on a .NET application. Now I’m trying to crash learn everything about .NET! Currently taking a high-level overview CBT course. I’ll install Visual Studio tomorrow, and then dive into all the manuals I can digest. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

...yeah, this hasn’t happened. Even though I’ve recently been working at MS, and now own a .NET book as well as a WPF book, I haven’t been given a good (read: paid) reason to learn it. So it’ll happen when it happens, but it’s not so much a goal anymore.

I went back and reviewed all my entries on this and now, having used C# and the .NET 1.1 and 2.0 framework for over a year I think I can say that I’ve done this. I write code every day (or generate it with CodeSmith) and regularly help others. I never built my little one-off client, and have barely touched ASP.NET but I have written thousands of lines of C# for services. The services I work on process nearly a million transactions a day and use a complex database driven rules engine to make things happen. I was going through clearing stuff up and thought “yeah – that one is done”. To anyone thinking about it, if you are in a field that Microsoft seems to largely be a leader in, go ahead and jump in. C# 2.0 adds some nifty new items that let it nose ahead of Java, not the least of which is built-in support for anonymous functions (very nice).