Which is a wiser choice for an IT professional to take up, Java or .NET?

[cat_dog_ass]

Java is mature...howeve r, a beginner may not stand any chance to
compete against industry bigwigs. On the other hand, .NET is newer and
gives newbies a relatively firm foothold, since there are hardly
experienced ppl there. Also, I'm interested in computer security
involving low level coding in C, C++. Which platform will be better for
me keeping this in view?

[Christof Nordiek]

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2) Eclipse provides a nicer IDE than VS

As I know Eclipse can be used also to develop C#.
You only have to use a C#-Plugin.
See e.g.www.improve-technologies.com/alpha/esharp/

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Christof Nordiek <[e-mail] > wrote:

2) Eclipse provides a nicer IDE than VS

As I know Eclipse can be used also to develop C#.
You only have to use a C#-Plugin.
See e.g.www.improve-technologies.com/alpha/esharp/

Have you tried it? It's appalling - or at least, it was last time I
tried it. Put it this way - you lose pretty much all the benefits that
Eclipse gives you in terms of refactoring etc.

VS is much better than the above plug-in when developing C# - but
writing Java in Eclipse is better than writing C# in VS.

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[William Stacey [MVP]]

I can't imagin needing to use more edit features then what is available in
VS, but I suppose some would. Plus there is a ton of stuff that folks
probably are not using, but would use if they knew about it. I just figured
out a few days ago that "cw<tab><ta b>" is the snippet for
Console.WriteLi ne() and that made my week. I guess it just comes down to
what you want to write in.

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"SharpCoder MP" <cs*******@inte ria.pl.NFSPM> wrote in message
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| Jon Skeet [C# MVP] wrote:
| > See my other response for a reference to a longer article - but to my
| > mind the code editor is the single most important thing in the IDE.
| > It's where I spend 95% of my time, so even if that were the only thing
| > better in Eclipse than in VS.NET, that's still a massive item.
| >
| > As it happens, there are plenty of other things too :)
| >
| nice article. as to the code editor - i totally agree with you. it's the
| place where i do spend most of my time. but as i said the one shipped
| with VS2k5 is a bit batter than the previous one. What i always hated
| about the Eclipse was the speed... or rather the lack of it :) it's so
| damn slow. It's great but it's like using #Develop IDE - it's nice when
| it comes to the editor thing but in a long run... well you just waste
| some precious time waiting for this thing to move on :)

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

William Stacey [MVP] <wi************ @gmail.com> wrote:

I can't imagin needing to use more edit features then what is available in
VS, but I suppose some would.

Here's a really simple example: "Open Resource" and "Open Type" in
Eclipse make it *so* easy to get to a resource/type if you just know
its name - even if there are many resources/types with the same name in
different folders/packages (namespaces).

There's a plugin available for VS which does a similar thing, but it
takes a while to index a large solution.

Then there's all the code generation and refactoring stuff - VS 2005
has only just scratched the surface... read the blog entry for an
example of just how powerful Eclipse's Extract Method can be.

Eclipse just makes the actual coding side a breeze - Visual Studio
keeps interrupting my train of thought, effectively. Now, I dare say
there are plenty of tricks I don't know about VS, but I suspect the
same is also true of Eclipse. The VS team seem to have spent a lot of
effort on designers and the like, whereas the Eclipse team have spent
their energy on the editor itself. As I don't happen to like designers
in the first place, that suits me just fine.

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