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I have done some vc.net programming as part of a college course. However,
all of it was based on console based apps.
Could someone recommend a good book or site that focuses on vc++.net prog.
for windows.
Also, from your experience, how much tougher is windows prog. using vc
compared to c#. Is it more feasible to just use vc for classes and c# for
the frontend. The question is for developement for database intensive
applications.

Thanks.
Asim.
Nov 17 '05 #1
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i use C# for developing applications for windows.
i use C++.NET only for porting native c++ code to the .NET platform by
compiling it into a class library.

at this moment C++ .NET is -excuse my language - butt ugly.
this will change with the next VS release, but for now it is IMHO a
syntactic mess.

and since you compile to the .NET platform there is almost no speed gain to
be had by using C++.
C# is an elegant language that was tailor made for the .NET platform, so it
is the most obvious choise.

kind regards,
Bruno.
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I have done some vc.net programming as part of a college course. However,
all of it was based on console based apps.
Could someone recommend a good book or site that focuses on vc++.net prog.
for windows.
Also, from your experience, how much tougher is windows prog. using vc
compared to c#. Is it more feasible to just use vc for classes and c# for
the frontend. The question is for developement for database intensive
applications.

Thanks.
Asim.

Nov 17 '05 #2

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