How widespread is .Net Framework 1.1.4322 ?

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raylopez99 said:
I've coded for about a month in C# (total time) and I practically feel
I can hold my own against Jon and Pete, the resident C# gurus here!
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Good luck with that. I've been coding C# a long time, and the two of them
(along with a few others) are enough to give somenome a complex! Some of the
people here are way to smart...
Today I learned XML and it's pretty neat. Every byte in a XML
document is like a "node" in a tree. Even "whitespaces" are
considered nodes.
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XML is another of those "small, easy to master" topics, kind of like
Databases, Concurrency, and OO.
 
Chris said:
Good luck with that. I've been coding C# a long time, and the two of them
(along with a few others) are enough to give somenome a complex! Some of the
people here are way to smart...
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Frankly, I'm a little uncomfortable being called one of "the resident C#
gurus here" (even if I did receive word today that thanks to Jon's
nomination, I'm now a "C# MVP"...and not just "kind of, sort of,
uncertified of"). And I'm especially uncomfortable with the implication
that there are only two such people.

I can think of, just off the top of my head, at least a half-dozen
regular posters here that have much greater claim to "guru-dom" than I
do, especially in (but not limited to) the context of C#. I'd come up
with more names if I spent a few more moments thinking about it.

In fact, one of the amazing things about this newsgroup is the high
number of people who are not only able to answer the mundane, daily
questions that C# newbies are constantly posting, but also those really
weird ones that you can only answer if you've "been there, done that,
ripped your hair out trying to learn it". There's a lot of esoteric
knowledge out there and frankly my own expertise pales in comparison.

Of course, among all those people, not one is Ray. But maybe one day. :)

Pete
 
Good luck with that. I've been coding C# a long time, and the two of them
(along with a few others) are enough to give somenome a complex! Some of the
people here are way to smart...
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Agreed. There is such a thing as "thinking too much" or
"overengineering"! :-)
XML is another of those "small, easy to master" topics, kind of like
Databases, Concurrency, and OO.
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True, true. I just finished all I need to know (for now) in the book
by Wrox "Beginning C# 2005 Databases" by Karli Watson. Pretty good
stuff. The key is knowing when to use the visual tools to design a
query, and when to use a command (faster), and of course the interface
to the Visual Studio C# front end. Helps to know SQL, which I learned
in about a day. As for XML, if you stick to what is known as the
'forward stream' (non-tree, just moving forward in sequential fashion)
version, it's just like FileStream--plug and chug--the bit about
attributes versus elements is a bit confusing but largely a tempest/
teapot situation. Don't know much about Concurrency yet, but it seems
pretty simple--just stop one thread whenever you need another to catch
up, and so forth. OO is of course the base for all things, and it
does take a while to "think" in OO style, but to be honest, I find
that a lot of stuff that I and others write ends up really being
procedural stuff recast as OO. I mean, how often to you really use
polymorphism anyway? Not all that often.

Happy coding,

RL
 
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