A brief note of thanks

[Henry]

I've been a lurker in this forum for a while. Like so many others, I'm
trying to teach myself C#, .NET and SQL Server, among other things. I
look through the posts here almost every day because there are
freely-given answers to questions that I'd simply not know (yet!) how to
figure out.

In particular, Peter Duniho and Arne Vajhøj (my apologies to all of the
other regular posters - I don't mean to slight anybody) give
well-reasoned (as far as I can tell) responses to questions regarding C#
theory, and provide code samples and analyses that I find very
impressive. Here's how I look at it: if I were on the job and had to
figure that stuff out, how long would it take me? Hours? Days? Who
knows how much time it would save me. It's very likely that I'd be able
to complete some job that would otherwise go down in flames.

I've gotten into the habit of cutting and pasting parts of threads into
my own little code snippet / tips library. Downloading files, working
with FTP, running external apps, the fine points of delegates, WinForns,
WebForms - the list goes on. The truth is, I'm picking your brains, so
that I don't have to reinvent the wheel, when the time comes. Chances
are that most of this stuff is the product of lots of hard work,
training, and some trial and error.

So, to you folks, here's a big "Thanks!" I hang around and collect the
bits of practical solutions that you, almost definitely, would be
hard-pressed to find in any book or lecture hall. I appreciate what you
folks do, free of charge.


Henry

 

[Peter Duniho]

[...]
So, to you folks, here's a big "Thanks!" I hang around and collect the
bits of practical solutions that you, almost definitely, would be
hard-pressed to find in any book or lecture hall. I appreciate what you
folks do, free of charge.

You're very welcome. And you're right, there are a number of other folks
here who help every day other than just Arne and me. They all are at
least as deserving of thanks, and I'm sure that even unnamed (heck, some
of them don't even use real names anyway ), they know who they are and
appreciate your comments as much as I do.

Probably my biggest regret is that while you're right that there's lots of
great information here, it's not exactly well-indexed. I haven't even
counted, but I'm sure I've got at least a hundred or two little code
samples written as part of providing answers, and probably at least 20-30%
of that would actually make useful reference for other people looking for
similar answers. Yet, at the moment they remain just "one off" code
examples, with no way to go back and take advantage of them in a broader
way.

Oh well...one day, I'll get a round tuit and it'll happen. In the
meantime, glad you're able to take advantage of the information as it
trickles out through the newsgroup itself.

Pete

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

I've gotten into the habit of cutting and pasting parts of threads into
my own little code snippet / tips library.

You can find a lot of the code I have posted over the years
(mostly other places than microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.csharp)
here:
http://www.vajhoej.dk/arne/eksperten/

Arne

 

[Henry]

That's excellent. I appreciate it very much.

You can find a lot of the code I have posted over the years
(mostly other places than microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.csharp)
here:
http://www.vajhoej.dk/arne/eksperten/

Arne