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Are you sure you were not watching p*rn in a closely packed internet cafe?
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For goodness sake! Open the m*****f***ing windows! Oh, its a *nix box, forget it then, sorry!
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: There must have been a lot of bugs in there
Not since thge snake got in there. 
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This is part of the Microsoft Genuine Snake Advantage plan.
You should have been presented with EULA after which the snake would have become part of your system and it would have regularly come back to bite you in the butt as a reminder that choices have consequences.
If you do not activate your copy of Genuine Snake Advantage after 49 reboots you can expect it to consume your mouse as a precaution.
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I was looking at how to use a thread for background tasks and there is a BackgroundWorker in the toolbox list 
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That's one of the advantages of .NET over C++, the rich framework. Yes I know you can achieve the same in C++ but you have to hunt harder. Though things may have moved on in the past four years which was when I last looked at C++.
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I was about to suggest exactly the same thing.
Quite a few of my company's products are based on that framework, and I must say, working with it is a pleasure.
Good job, Trolltech, Qt Software and Nokia (this sounds exactly as me, myself and I  ).
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the framework is only getting better and deeper. use it fulltime.
cheers,
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Please do not confuse between .NET and C++; .NET is a framework, while C++ is a language. Also, C++ creates .NET.
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I'm not confused. When you're using C# it's inseparable from the .NET framework, i.e., you have a rich library at your fingertips. With C++ typically you do not and either need to do all the stuff yourself or hunt around for disparate pieces.
accent123 wrote: Also, C++ creates .NET.
So what? I'm not saying that C# is superior to C++, just that it has better "infrastructure" support for common problems. Naturally there are some scenarios where despite this C++ is a better choice.
Kevin
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It is either Assembly or C++ or a combination of both.
Also, comparing C++ and the .NET family of languages is like comparing apples and oranges. C++ is a fully compiled laguage and you are totally free to do anything with it, including hang your self, where as, .NET languages are not fully compiled; they end up in bytecodes which are then interpreted by the .NET run-time when the application runs. Therefore, if your code is intended for speed in a extreme high trafic environment, such as real-time communication, C++ is your choice. Otherwise, for rapid app development, pick .NET.
if you disagree, then please tell us what was used to create the .NET framework/.NET languager interpreters, or Java, or Javascript or all the other bytecode-oriented/managed codes/interpreters/the so-called "new languages" for that matter, that are being sold out there.
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I don't think that the phrase "fully compiled" means what you think that it means. I'm certain that "compiler existence" is not a direct feature of any language. For some languages, compilers have been created. For others, they have not. The languages themselves are entirely distinct from such things. If one were so inclined, a Javascript compiler could be created. So far, no one has been so inclined (that I know of anyway). In fact, if one were so inclined, said compiler could be created using C#. C# could be used to make a C# compiler. Comparing C++ to "the .NET family of languages" is an apples-to-apples comparison, because languages are languages and compilers are compilers and the two categories are only related when someone links them together (punny!). I think the folks at Microsoft responsible for Visual C++ might take particular exception to you attempting to distinguish C++ from "the .NET family of languages", given all the really hard work that went into making it into one of those .Net languages. ANY language can be a .Net language; all it needs is to be able to refer to the libraries.
If having JITted bytecode really bothers you, use NGEN[^] on it.
For the record, I've got some real-time communications code working just fine. I wrote it in VB. I didn't NGEN it. Heck, I didn't even adhere to general best practices while coding it. I could have written it in C++, but I like making the VB and .Net haters go spastic.
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Yeah, backgroundworker makes synching up the UI thread and so on really trivial. Like someone else said, it's the framework that makes .NET cool.
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Now all they have to do is make MSDN work, so that it's easier to find this stuff out. 
Henry Minute
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Henry Minute wrote: Now all they have to do is make MSDN work, so that it's easier to find this stuff out.
No kidding! I can usually find what I'm looking for on MSDN faster by using Google, and usually accidentally find better information on external blogs!
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I don't program much anymore but enjoy reading threads such as this as I still do a little C# .NET work. Your post caused me to wax nostalgic and recall how back in my early days when something didn't work the way you thought it would - due to bad or no documentation, or buggy program, or hardware failure (which used to happen quite often) - you had no Internet for help. Imagine no user forums. There were computer clubs whose members helped one another but when you're at a point that needs to be dealt with immediately, well, you know... There were published algorithms to do all kinds of sorts and searches and stuff, but there were no rich frameworks that generated the code for you. To make matters much worse there was always a memory and storage limitation to consider. Now if you need a fast file hash method just allocate some megabytes or gigabytes or, hell, terabytes. As for a development platform C# .NET is superb. As Ray Kurzweil's book title says: The Singularity is near.
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It's wonderful isn't it? The functionality at your fingertips these days is so rich that sometimes it feels like you can get 10 times as much done these days as you could a mere 10 years ago.
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I remember purchasing a library of assembly language functions for the Commodore 64, which provided user interface functionality. That was the closest thing that I had to a framework back then.
I would sit up all night, staring at code, printing out code and highlighting it, compiling over and over, making small changes to avoid a troubleshooting nightmare. It was almost an art form -- to try to fit the most functionality into the smallest amount of memory, using the smallest amount of processor power.
Now, things are almost directly opposite. With all emphasis being on development time, optimization takes a back seat in most business-oriented applications.
I still get a guilty feeling when I code something quickly, knowing that I could have done it more efficiently with just a little more time. But, that extra time could be spent on another project, and that's all that matters to the corporate bean-counters.
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I use a BackgroundWorker in almost every app I write.
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The threading facilities in .NET are indeed . We have a C++ library that implements our TCP/IP socket communications, and a second that implements socket-based event logging, both used heavily in our distributed application. I replicated the functionality of both libraries in <2 weeks in C#. Of course, some of the ease in building the .NET versions of the libraries stems from the fact that so much of the stuff in the C++ libraries you get for 'free' with .NET.
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