confused newbie looking for direction

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Hi,

I am a Unix programmer wanting to learn how to apply my craft to Windows.
My first impressions of Windows and .net is that I am blown away by the
options. I want to be able to build distributed client/server applications
and I do not know where to begin. For example, I am not sure what the best
langauge to develop in Windows is. I am a native c/c++ programmer, but
everything that I have seen elaborates on c#. If someone with more
experience can point me in the right direction and maybe recommend some books
to read to get me up to speed I would highly appreciate. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Scott
 
C/C++ is still the best development platform and if you're very experienced
at it, you could produce results as fast as C# .NET solutions. But for .NET
2.0 the language choice is really not relevant, go with what you're most
comfortable with. You will find more performance in C/C++ than anything
based on the .NET CLR

I have about 20 WROX and Microsoft Press books and just dove into VS 2005.
..NET 2.0 doesn't really run on Unix unless you have some really really
really good emulators -- the ones pointed out to me so far will not work
with .NET 2.0 framework and the current open source projects for .NET 2.0
support aren't there yet.

So be warned, you get a lot of "options" with .NET but you limit your scope
to WinXP, Win2K, Win2K3, Vista, Win98 SP1 and WinME users.
 
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