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Separate, but related...What I was referring to would include:

1) Giving a class specification to 3 different developers/teams and getting back drop in replacements that could be used...

AS A STARTING POINT..I also post regularly how a 4 year college degree (in the USA) is unlikely to get you a job upon graduation

It is not about who I hire. It is about how major financial...

EDIT: Just realized which forum this is in, so much of the post does not apply here at the detailed level (ie the use of STL), however the general points remain valid - so I have chosen not to delete...

But this "ad-hoc" approach has risks. When interviewing "entry-level" candidates I can (with about 80% accuracy) determine if they learned the language from an organized course of study...

I dont see it as haphazard at all. Changes in hardware capabilities completely change the focus of software development. Changes in economy and business goals also change this.

Consider society in...

Exactly...and is a rcommented or critical update comes out it means that it is ALREADY BROKEN,, and needs to be fixed!!!

For the users (<20&#37; in my experience) who have the knowledge to make an...

My experience is almost 100% the opposite.

EVERY person (that I know) with XP, and some type of internet connection (even 56KB dialup) has the .NET framework installed.

Now, I will freely...

WizBang...EXCELLENT POST :thumb::thumb::wave:

Thanks for the info. Very little has to do with "intelligence", but ALOT to do with experience. Although I have often been accused of "living in my own special world", it does not apply here.


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Compact (and Embedded) Framework has a different set of issues (which I should have been explicit on). Here matching the OS and Framework is very important.

My experience has been frequent contact...

Much depends on exactly what you mean by this post. Assuming we are talking VB.Net or C# (in other words not "Managed C++" or C++/CLI"....

Of the projects you have done in 1.1, how many have you...

Actually my first significant roll out of Vista (500+ desktops/laptops for a major publishing firm) was in May 2007 (after a 3 month trial on 25machines)

Since then I have done rollouts at 4...

I have been the architect or lead developer on 7 .Net projects that each involved over 3-5 million lines of code (not counting "designer" generated code). These each had hundreds of forms/report (I...

Actually we would be stuck way before that...how about mechanical processing of punched cards...NO "electronics" at all.....

And nothing about this is new since I started programming back in 1972, and has nothing to do with .Net.

When I used to do presentations in secondary (ages 14-18) and college environments, I told...

What part of


Neither WPF nor WCF "broke" or "Changed" any existing behaviour.



And how is this different then it has been for decades. Every time a vendor (and there are many) introduces...

Actually .Net 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 all use the exact same CLR.....Each release added new integrated functionallity be expanding the library.

There were (of course) bug fixes [including a few Service...

Just as a side note.... Support for VB 7.0 ended last month [14-Oct-2008]...This leaves:

8.0 (VS-2005) good until 4/12/2011,
9.0 (VS-2008) good until 4/9/2013.
10.0 (VS-2010) currently...

:wave: Thanks for the kind words.

(Actually my university backgound was physics...)

It is NOT the "newbies" that I have seen have problems with .NET.

Like most other changes in technologies...

George1111,

As a professional developer, I have to strongly disagree with most of your post.

Of the 25+ enterprise level projects (in the 1-3 million lines of code range) that I have been...

You can definately connect to an Access file (.mdb) with .NET.

However, with the availability of both the Compact and Express versions of SQL Server there are many fewer reasons to do so than...

Congratulations :wave::wave:

A code sample like you asked for is not really meaningful. It is the entire philosophy that is different. The syntax for many (most) things is nearly identical.
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