Same old faeces here I see, like Peter Dungho

[RayLopez99]

I see taht the old regulars are still here, the same old faces like
Peter Dungiho and Jon Skeet and company. I myself have moved on to
other languages, having mastered 90% of C# in about a year of study.

I do like the strongly typed features of C#, and the logical simple
layout, and functional stuff like LINQ is also of interest. After
doing a lot of functional language stuff I think C# is in danger of
becoming, due to LINQ, more like F#.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F_Sharp_programming_language

RL

 

[Ignacio Machin ( .NET/ C# MVP )]

I see taht the old regulars are still here, the same old faces like
Peter Dungiho and Jon Skeet and company.  I myself have moved on to
other languages, having mastered 90% of C# in about a year of study.

I do like the strongly typed features of C#, and the logical simple
layout, and functional stuff like LINQ is also of interest.  After
doing a lot of functional language stuff I think C# is in danger of
becoming, due to LINQ, more like F#.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F_Sharp_programming_language

RL

Now that you mention it, I haven't seen Jon Skeet nor Nicholas Paldino
around for a long time. they are surely miss

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

Now that you mention it, I haven't seen Jon Skeet nor Nicholas Paldino
around for a long time. they are surely miss

He is said to hangout at StackOverflow.

Arne

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

I myself have moved on to
other languages, having mastered 90% of C# in about a year of study.

http://norvig.com/21-days.html

Arne

 

[Ignacio Machin ( .NET/ C# MVP )]

He is said to hangout at StackOverflow.

Arne

Interesting

I have noticed a decrease of post in this NG lately (And I'm been
around here for several years) , it seems people are movng away

 

[pudchuck]

I have noticed a decrease of post in this NG lately (And I'm been
around here for several years) , it seems people are movng away

I noticed that as well. Where are they going? I don't believe it has
to do with a decreasing popularity of the language.

VB on the other hand...
http://trends.google.com/trends?q=c#,+vb&date=all&geo=all&ctab=0&sort=0&sa=N

I miss Jon and Nicholas.

 

[jp2msft]

Personally, the only way I can access this board is through the website
because our Group Policy at work blocks Outlook Express.

The website is nearly impossible to use because I am behind a proxy at work,
and I often get "Service is Temporary Unavailable" (2 separate issues).
Sometimes, it is just easier to go somewhere else with a message board I can
use.

 

[Jeff Gaines]

Personally, the only way I can access this board is through the website
because our Group Policy at work blocks Outlook Express.

This is not a "board" it is a Usenet news group. There are many news
readers available and many of them are free, have a look here:

http://www.newsreaders.com/win/clients.html

I use XanaNews which suits me but it's very much a personal choice.

 

[jp2msft]

I've tried lots of different newsgroup readers, and the won't work - but I'll
still give XanaNews a try. Who knows? It may work!

 

[Jeff Johnson]

Personally, the only way I can access this board is through the website
because our Group Policy at work blocks Outlook Express.

Does it prevent you from running the OE executable or does it prevent OE
from accessing port 119 (the standard NNTP port)? If the latter, it won't
matter what newsreader you try.

 

[RayLopez99]

I have noticed a decrease of post in this NG lately (And I'm been
around here for several years) , it seems people are movng away

Or, like me, they have mastered the C# language after 1 year's study.
I am doing ASP.NET programming now, using C# as the code-behind
language. In ASP.NET I miss the Windows Forms use of a strongly typed
language, and don't get me started about how ASP.NET's "stateless"
design causes headaches with persisting variables. Such a step
behind. Also I'm looking into doing WPF coding using C#.

RL

 

[Michael J. Ryan]

Or, like me, they have mastered the C# language after 1 year's study.
I am doing ASP.NET programming now, using C# as the code-behind
language. In ASP.NET I miss the Windows Forms use of a strongly typed
language, and don't get me started about how ASP.NET's "stateless"
design causes headaches with persisting variables. Such a step
behind. Also I'm looking into doing WPF coding using C#.

You should be holding onto a bunch of stuff in a clieant/server environment
anyhow. I like it myself.. each request is nicely ecapsulated, following
RESTful principles helps. Judicious use of caching helps too (memcached for
example). MVC is even more awesome. You can extend the authentication system
to auto-(re)wire your authenticated user info, other classes can wrap static
methods/properties that auto-wire from cache/dbms... If you want an
appearance of such.

I will often create static classes that wrap into a check against
HttpRequest.Current.Items then cache, then dbms... You can use them as if
they were stateful in your code-behind/controller, but still run stateless.
This way you get the scalability that a stateless environment offers.