Ok, so I am doing some exploring to open the old rep...rep....rep...skillset a bit. Thought I'd look at some web stuff; not done a lot of ASP in a looooong time. So, there I am deciding to look at ASP.Net 2.0.
At work, we have a Safari Books Online subscription. I normally prefer to have a hard cover, real, no kidding book. However, this does let me peruse them and find ones I like, and if I don't want to actually buy it, I don't have to do so. It does allow offline access to some, so it's a good deal.
The book I wanted was there, and I checked it out. I fired up VS and opened the book. I was ready to rock....
It's a C# book. I blinked.
C#? Surely not! Ye gods, I'd not touch any programming language with a C in the title in years. I can read C#, but I don't really write in it. I mean, who decided all those semi-colons were a good idea? No underscore? No With statement? My mind was a whirl. A co-worker named Todd was giving me a hard time...saying things like "C'mon, you wuss" and other encouraging statements that reminded me of my little league coach. Mr. Bell used to quote from "Ulysses" and called us wusses, too. Was hard to take as an eight-year old. Was even harder to take coming from Todd.
Well, at first I thought, no big deal..re-write the examples in VB...you can do that...you've converted code before...no big deal....
I realized that we'd all be using VS2010 by the time I finished converting the examples in the book and actually studied them.
So, here I am...working in C# and cringing.....
Wish me luck.....