Re: Up to date MFC Book
I think any modern day programmer is going to benefit from knowing more than
one programming platform even when working for a company where they may be
mostly on a single project. I took a C# class last year and I thought it
was great. I haven't had a real project to work in it and I'm not sure I
would use it even if I needed a pure .NET application (others in my company
swear by it though). I did think it was an interesting syntax and it wasn't
very difficult to learn enough to get started.
Tom
"Ajay Kalra" <ajaykalra@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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I know enough to get by. I worked on it for 9 months a year ago. I am
just starting it again. It took around 3-5 months to get past missing
MFC type features in .Net. I was just getting into it when I changed
jobs and got back into MFC. By that time I had started to really get
into it, especailly WinForms. Overall my impression has been very good
but I wasnt qualified to say anything about the performance issues. Now
it appears that the issues are no longer there (or were never really
there) and the perfromance is very comparable to unmanaged C++. In some
instances its found to be better than unmanaged C++. Another part that
I liked in .Net is threading and delegates. IMO, they have done a good
job in removing the complexities that come with Win32.
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Ajay
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