New Company, New Language, Same IDE...

'mike' on Thu, 28 Jul 2005 03:31:09 GMT, sez:

Congratulations on the new gig!

'blameMike' on Thu, 28 Jul 2005 05:56:25 GMT, sez:

Congrats Leon.

Glad to see you move to the land of curly braces and semi-colons.

:)

'blameMike' on Thu, 28 Jul 2005 06:02:19 GMT, sez:

One thing: What up with the scrolling marquee on the Advantech site?

I thought that went the way of the dodo.

'lb' on Thu, 28 Jul 2005 20:54:28 GMT, sez:

thanks Mike, Mike.

that aint no scrolling marquee, that's an animated gif.

'leon' on Thu, 28 Jul 2005 22:28:55 GMT, sez:

what if the IDE automatically put in () [on the end of method calls], automatically removed braces from the end of values, and put in semi-colons for you...

would that cause armed revolt in the curly-brace communityt?

'blameMike' on Thu, 28 Jul 2005 22:55:28 GMT, sez:

If MS made the automatic formatting of C# code an option -- it wouldn't cause much of an uproar.

Not a bad idea.

'Alistair' on Fri, 29 Jul 2005 04:37:57 GMT, sez:

Great to hear you are enjoying yourself, leon. Those third party controls look pretty cool... are we going to see a newly skinned C# based code generator soon?

'lb' on Fri, 29 Jul 2005 05:35:29 GMT, sez:

cheers al.

the "windows forms" code generator is about three versions away yet... but it's gonna have some nifty features that wouldn't work on a web version (to do with as accessing local resources)

see ya later mater

'Leigh Kendall' on Fri, 29 Jul 2005 10:32:58 GMT, sez:

Leon -

Seriously, check out VisualAssistX (www.wholetomato.com). It'll make coding in C# _almost_ as enjoyable as VB.NET minus the background compiler. Plus, it's templates work with scripting/html.

To get around the background compiler, just assign a keyboard mapping via VS options to something comfy like Alt+Enter. Every couple of other Enter hits, just add an Alt to your Enter (left thumb + right pinky) and you're compiled. :-)
You get used to it!

HTH...

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