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But I'm writing that book (seriously)! 
Learning from books has never been my thing.
I need to get my hands dirty and try out some stuff.
That's also how I like to learn new stuff, by searching and playing around (and sometimes trial and error).
That's the reason why I've always hated school and why I'll never go back to school again, it sucks the pleasure right out of anything!
In fact, I stopped programming in my spare time when I took up on an IT study at the Open University! It took about two or three years until I finally realized school was holding me back.
When I quit I got that drive back that I had before I picked up that study.
I'm glad I didn't do an IT study after high school (I did journalism). If I did IT at school I might never have worked in IT now (like I'm also not working in journalism) 
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I feel ya, I suppose the same thing would apply though, just pick an area to start with and stay with it. And while I can be very pro-book to give someone a head start, learning by trial and error is smart so kudos. Sometimes, you just can't beat experience.
Jeremy Falcon
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This Morning when I fired up Visual Studio 2017 RC, I was greeted with a pop-up window from Microsoft. MS requested me to take part in a survey regarding my experience with VS2017. I did the survey. The questions mainly centered around my opinion on whether the product was ready for final release. I was quite impressed, but then at the end they asked whether they may contact me in case they needed further details. Aww shucks Microsoft!  I didn't think you would care about little ole me and my opinion of VS!
I must say that my impressions of VS 2017 so far are positive. I do hope the final release will be available as a free community edition, like 2015.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Why do you doubt that MS is not interested in your personal data?
Quote: must say that my impressions of VS 2017 so far are positive.
I'm impressed also from VS2013 until current Version from this VS stuff.
Kind regards (this one aproved by CP experts )
A tormented embarcadero user
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Cornelius Henning wrote: I didn't think you would care about little ole me and my opinion of VS!
They don't. They ask for your opinion just so they can ignore it even harder 
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I've heard that the designer doesn't run out of memory quite as often in '17 as in previous versions. Do you know if this is true?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Quote: Do you know if this is true?
I have used it extensively over the past few weeks and it never ran out of memory - not once!
With VS2012 it happened almost every day.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Cornelius Henning wrote: With VS2012 it happened almost every day.
Heck, we have some huge forms at work and VS '15 runs out of memory just about every 30 mins!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I would be interested to hear your impressions of VS2017.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I often run out of memory. It happens almost every day!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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So you missed reading the reports where ms says it's unhappy because so many developers are bypassing their personal-information-gathering spyware saintly telemetry functions?
Not much point in stopping them spying on you helping you with their saintly telemetry functions if you're just going to allow them direct access to you.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Got any links for this? I'd like to read more.
I know there was some brouhaha over them doing this for C++ code (which they supposedly removed in Update 3), but I hadn't heard any more after that.
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I'm pretty sure it was in an article in the Insider News (since that's just about the only place where I read tech news).
It was going on about how developers and the tech elite were putting themselves more at risk because they knew how to get around winio's forced updates.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Ah, ok - that's different than what I was thinking about. The issue I had in mind was something that happened in May/June of last year where the VS C++ compiler was injecting Microsoft telemetry calls into your compiled binaries.
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I suppose this version does a better job of hiding the telemetrics code that it stealthly inserts into your exe.
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It is far from ready for final release, and they plan for that on 7 March. I was having a beautiful time writing a WPF app with a .NET Core web API as data source, but then I had to "quickly" do an MVC web app with a web api data source. 2017 is nowhere ready enough for debugging web apps. I have to start the app with dotnet run, then start the remote debugger (added an External Tool to do that), even if the site isn't remote, then attach to the dotnet process. I used to just press F5.
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Dear Experts
Usually I finish my mails with:
Kind regards
XYZ
Now my "not programming"  question:
Is it correct or appropriate I mean this "kind regards" or is it too personal for a business correspondence?
Thank you very much in advance for your help.
Kind regards
Bruno
Regards
Bruno
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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A formal business letter is normally ended with "yours sincerely", "your faithfully" or "yours truly" depending on the context. Emails tend to be ended with "regards", "kind regards", "thanks and regards" or any other appropriate greeting, again depending on the context.
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Thank you very much for your Explanation.
The very formal I do like you mention with
Yours sincerely
FirstName Name
So what I'm thinking to understand from your answer "Kind regards" is ok for non formal?
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Thanks again and a 5 and accepted 
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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For informal, friends and strangers, I just end with
Cheers[1]
Brady
[1]It's not a toast, but a standard parting "greeting" in UK based versions of English, especially ubiquitous in South Africa.
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Brady Kelly wrote: ubiquitous in South Africa
Not something I have ever heard from my Afrikaaner daughter-in-law. However, now she has been granted British Citizenship we will need to teach her how to speak English properly:
i.e. mispronounced, ungrammatical and full of slang.
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No, not in common use among Afrikaaners, except for an occasional, malformed 'tchee-errs'.
Teach her well, all you say you will, please.
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For formal letters, the general rule is that you use "Yours sincerely" (or "Sincerely yours" in the USA) when you've addressed the letter by name, and "Your faithfully" when you've used a non-specific address - "Dear Sirs", "Dear Sir/Madam", etc.
word choice - Is it "Yours faithfully" or "Yours sincerely"? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange[^]
But most email messages don't require this level of formality.
Just try to avoid signing emails to your customers with "love from" or "XOXO". 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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