Someone give me a *good* link to .net?

Post #2,022

7/17/01 3:40:55 AM

(a) piece of software needs to do something
(b) software does not have it, software attempts to contact
(c) no contact
(d) business shuts down
(e)bankruptcy

It's happened .

French Zombies are zapping me with lasers!

Post #2,049

by orion

7/17/01 11:22:24 AM

.NET links

There are many links for .NET stuff, here are just what I was able to find:

[link|http://www.dotnet101.com/|.net101 Home of .NET Knowledge Base. ASP.NET, ADO.NET, C#, VB.NET, SOAP and Web Services resources inside.]

[link|http://www.dotnetbooks.com/|.netBooks Home For Microsoft .NET Reference]

[link|http://www.411asp.net/|411 ASP.NET Directory - Find ASP.NET tutorials, scripts, code and more.]

[link|http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/LearnMore/ASPPlus.asp|4GuysFromRolla.com - Learn More about ASP.NET!]

[link|http://www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.Asp?ID=2226|Access-SQL Server Database Explorer for VB.NET]

[link|http://www.andymcm.com/dotnetfaq.htm|Andy McMullan on DotNet FAQ]

[link|http://www.angrycoder.com/|angryCoder - Speak your mind...]

[link|http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1861004893/4guysfromrollaco/104-4277325-7294343|ASP.NET Book and examples]

[link|http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?URL=/library/techart/Bdadotnetover.htm|Building Distributed Applications with .NET]

[link|http://www.hitmill.com/programming/dotNET/csharp.html|C# Programming]

[link|http://www.netmag.co.uk/|Dot Net Magazine]

[link|http://www.devx.com/dotnet/|DOTNET Portal on DevX - Visual Studio.NET and .NET Framework News]

[link|http://www.dotnet.be/|dotnet]

[link|http://www.develop.com/dm/Course.asp?id=99|Essential VB.NET]

[link|http://www.extremetech.com/print_article/0,3428,a%253D7787,00.asp|ExtremeTech - Print Article]

[link|http://www.411asp.net/home/sites/asphosts/freeasph|Free ASP Hosting - 411ASP.NET]

[link|http://www.ettorney.com/|IIS 5.0, Windows 2000, Commerce Server, ASP.NET, DOTNet Enterprise Servers, SQL, FAQs, Forums, and book reviews]

[link|http://www.internetworld.com/dotnet/03.15.01dotnetframework8.jsp|Internet World .NET Framework C# and the .NET Framework A Better Java Platform - 03-15-01]

[link|http://www.microsoft.com/net/|Microsoft .NET Home Page]

[link|http://www.ihateapple.com/articles/russ/msnet.asp|Microsoft .NET review by Russ]

[link|http://www.microsoft.com/net/|Microsoft .NET]

[link|http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/technical/upgrade/default.asp|Microsoft Visual Basic Visual Basic 6.0 Upgrade to Visual Basic.NET]

[link|http://microsoft.com/business/products/webplatform/default.asp|Microsoft Web Solution Platform on Microsoft Business]

[link|http://msdn.microsoft.com/voices/data04122001.asp|MSDN Online Voices - Diving Into Data Access - Reading Data Reader Secrets]

[link|http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6455783.html|Open-source fans try to outflank .Net - Tech News - CNET.com]

[link|http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/techart/vb6tovbdotnet.htm|Preparing Your Visual Basic 6.0 Applications For the Upgrade to Visual Basic.NET]

[link|http://www.sdmagazine.com/articles/2001/0103/0103a/0103a.htm|Software Development Online DOTNet vs. J2EE]

[link|http://www.vb-zone.com/free/articles/rj070801/rj070801-1.asp|VB.NET Faces Off Against Classic VB]

[link|http://www.asp.net/|Welcome to the ASP.NET Home Page]

[link|http://www.gotdotnet.com/|Welcome to the GotDotNet Home Page!]

"I can see if I want anything done right around here, I'll have to do it myself!"

Moe Howard

Maybe you can find something that will help you?

Post #2,087

by orion

7/17/01 3:26:22 PM

Things to come with .NET

First, get used to programming with classes, that means learning OOP and learning to think in it. Sorry Bryce, stick to something else if you don't like OOP.

Second it seems that .NET brings in a Namespace that Classes reside in. It is just an area to stick classes in, so the names won't conflict with a different namespace. Or rather instead of everything in the same namespace, you can define different namespaces. I think that C#.NET uses Namespace, I am not so sure about VB.NET yet, wait until the Beta is finished and then we shall know.

Also for VB.NET the way functions are called may change, it may be like this:

Dim s_Chars as String
Dim i_Count as Integer

s_Chars = "ABCDEFG"

i_Count = Len(s_Chars)

We may have this instead:

i_Count = s_Chars.Length

We may also have:

s_Chars.Text = "ABCDEFG"

OR

s_Chars.Text("ABCDEFG")

s_Chars.Text.Add("ABCDEFG")

As I said I haven't messed with VB.NET yet, but more on that when I get the BETA2 downloaded and set up correctly. The only thing that I know for sure is that everything I currently know about VB.NET and ASP.NET are wrong. I must unlearn all the VB 6.0 and ASP 3.0 stuff I know now and start over again.

"I can see if I want anything done right around here, I'll have to do it myself!"

Moe Howard

Post #2,096

by orion

7/17/01 4:10:02 PM

Error trapping with VB.NET

The way we used to do it with VB 6.0 and under was like this:

On Error Goto ErrorTrap1:

i = i / 0

Exit Sub

ErrorTrap1:
Msgbox "Got an error! " & Err.Description

Or

On Error Resume Next
Err.Clear

i = i / 0

If err.Number > 0 Then
Msgbox "Got an error! " & Err.Description
End If

In VB.NET error trapping will have to be re-written! Joy!

Try
i = i / 0
Catch e as Exception
Messagebox.Show("Got an error! " & e.Message)
End Try

The "Try" statement, get used to it!

Try
(Try_Statements)
[Catch [(variable) [As (type)]][When (expression)]
(catch_statements>]
[Catch [(variable) [As (type)]][When (expression)]
(catch_statements)]
...
[Finally
(finally_statements)]
End Try

It looks like the "Finally" part is optional, but can be used to close files, close database connections, empty objects, etc. This is the cleanup part.

You can apparently have multiple catch parts, these appear to be the error handling routines or the error message routines.

Learned something new today. :)

"I can see if I want anything done right around here, I'll have to do it myself!"

Moe Howard

Post #2,227

by JayMehaffey

7/18/01 2:11:45 PM

Turning into C++

MS is slowly turning VB into C++, all of the VB changes I have seen so far for .NET are C++ stuff adapted to VB because the .NET runtime is really a C++. Rather then build a real language independent runtime or handeling the problem in the VB layer they are just pushing C++ stuff into VB at the language level.

Try/Catch isn't so bad, it's ultimatly cleaner then VB's old system. But I hate the += type syntax, all you gain is saving a few keystrokes, but you also get some nastly ordering problems and have to memorize a whole load of new operators.

Jay

Post #2,261

by orion

7/18/01 6:06:31 PM

I think I'm turning into a C++ Developer

Since VB.NET is slowly turning into C++ and taking the way they do things from C++ then. Frelling hot stuff, I might as well use a C++ compiler and do things the right way. I got to dust off my Borland C++ 5.0 CD, and get my hands on a GNU C++ compiler and start coding away. It will just save time that way!

"I can see if I want anything done right around here, I'll have to do it myself!"

Moe Howard

Post #2,268

by tablizer

7/18/01 9:12:17 PM

VB.NET is

......taking the world's top-selling language and making it resemble the worlds 2nd-top-selling language (Java).

I guess it is time to change careers.

At least until MS sets its targets on some other popular language that will no doubt grow in popularity due to the gap left by MS's targeting approaches.

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