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• Access != database

  While working on a data application for the finance guys, I already discovered that Excel sucks when used with OleDb. It seems as if Excel was specifically designed to make your life as a programmer miserable. Fair’s fair: Excel is not a database... Posted Jul 14 2008, 01:27 AM by vanDooren with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: C#, OleDb, Access

• Differences between C++ and C#, part 3

  One of the things that C# (and VB.NET) programmers have to live with is non-deterministic destruction of their objects. The garbage collector was introduced in .NET to take care of memory leaks and remove the need for manual memory management. It does... Posted Feb 27 2008, 05:52 AM by vanDooren with | with no comments Filed under: C++, C#

• Is C++ still a viable language?

  Every so often someone in microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vc asks about the future of C++, or if he should learn C# or VB.NET instead of C++. Some people are also confused if using C++ means they carry around C++ legacy code if they want to write pure... Posted Feb 05 2007, 02:02 AM by vanDooren with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: C++, C#

• Differences between C# and C++/CLI, part 2

  One question that comes up from time to time in the C++ newsgroups is that functions or constants that exist in a C++/CLI class library are not accessible in a C# or VB.NET project. The reason for this is nearly always that that constants or functions... Posted Aug 31 2006, 03:58 PM by vanDooren with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: C++, C#

• Differences between C# and C++/CLI, part 1

  Learning C# if you already know C++ is relatively easy. The syntax is similar, and the semantics are definitely a lot easier to understand. Since C# looks like C++, most of the concepts are easy to learn, but here and there are a few details that might... Posted Aug 31 2006, 03:56 PM by vanDooren with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: C++, C#