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Noooooooooooooo............ 
Keith is one of my lifetime heroes; if I'd ever taken up keyboards it would have been to learn all that he does and knows.
Time to queue up some Piano Improvisations... (from Works, Volume One)
Will Rogers never met me.
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Saw that over the weekend. R.I.P. Seems like we're losing a lot of talent lately...sad!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta tomorrow (noun): a mystical land where 99% of all human productivity, motivation and achievement is stored.
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Wow! Dude cool! 
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This looks promising. That arachnoid ending in the trailer is awesome!
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Too many super-heroes and the (lawful good) hero vs. (chaotic good) hero has been played before (AFAIK)
I'd rather be phishing!
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Yup. We need more buddy movies and romantic comedies. Those have never been done before.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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That's not an excuse for not being imaginative.
In my mind, I would, at least, have movies for each Avenger without bringing out all of the other super-heroes; flesh out each individual story
And have an Avengers series with all of them (like we have right now).
as a side note.
Every Sunday morning, there's a Chick-flick on the TV, and GF watch it; and when I come in the room, I always ask her if they (protagonists) have broken up already (they always break out and come back together at the end)!
I'd rather be phishing!
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In the endless battle of protecting pages yourself vs using the inbuilt, intrusive and lacking the ability to handle real-world input page validation in ASP.NET, we were briefly on the mat but we're back.
I need a drink.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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This sounds like a saga deserving of an HBO mini-series!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I get "Controller or Action Not Found" when trying to submit a new thread.
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Quote: but we're back.
Good to hear! You deserve more than one drink! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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He probably means a triple shot of cheap Walmart tequila, enough to knock out a rhinoceros.
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Pretty much.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Be glad it's Friday 
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Ok, worked once I closed and opened a new browser tab.
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On the plus side, that was the only 4 hour stretch of no spam that I can remember 
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Chris Maunder wrote: I need a drink.
Funnily enough that is exactly what I did during the down time.
veni bibi saltavi
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![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif) , ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) , or yes?
Software Zen: delete this;
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Meet me at the bar; I'm buying. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Hello All,
I started writing code in the late 90s using VB4. In 2000 I took VB6, SQL Server and a pretty good skill set to a previously DOS and flat file only company as their first Windows Programmer. What happened from there was both classic and stupid. I got comfortable and felt safe. We pumped out a lot of programs fast and dirty and updated, upgraded and converted a lot of customers. I was mostly a 1 man programming department trying to keep up with competitors who had full staffs. I quit developing new stuff, except for a few new features a year, and mostly did maintenance. As a company we kept putting of the "rewrite to new tech" in order to modify our existing software to work for that newest customer. It really became a cycle where I fell farther and farther behind the leading edge of our industry while I tried to keep the existing product modern enough to keep management and sales happy. In 2014 I took a big gamble and forced a stop to the cycle while I tried to catch up with tech and start development of a core product line that had a future. It cost me my job.
Sorry for the book, but I wanted to tell everyone that so you understand that, when I ask you this:
I am an application programmer at heart, and while I am behind the current tech, I am very good at what I do. I just can't seem to find the right resource or approach to finding my way back to the front of our field. There seems to be no clear starting point in the current jumble of interwoven platforms, libraries, methodologies, languages and what not. I tried moving to VB.NET and the first code review I asked for I was told that I was writing very good VB6 code in VB.NET. They were right, that was what it was.
I think I want to move to C#, if for no other reason than to help break old habits. Can someone point me in the right direction? How do I get moving again?
Thanks.
Rem
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Good books are always useful, this Useful Reference Books[^] link lists several. You can also download VS express 2015 Community Edition to start.
[edit]
thanks to Cornelius Henning.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
modified 11-Mar-16 16:03pm.
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Quote: You can also download an express version of VS to start
The express versions are dead. It's now VS 2015 Community Edition. It has all the features of the full version, and is free.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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