My very first dotNet application
I’ve programmed in Visual C++ 6.0/MFC before, quite a bit actually. I never really got into .Net programming, mostly because by the time it came out I no longer had access to free/cheap Visual Studio software. With free Express editions out for a while now, there is no excuse other than that I’ve been busy with other things. The only real programming I’ve done in the past years has been Python web programming and M8C assembly language hacking for the two courses that I teach.
Recently I’ve come to realize that if I want to get some technical jobs that involve programming I will need to learn one of the two dominant development environments, either .Net or Java. I will learn .Net first, then try Java (using Eclipse) for comparison.
In anycase, the following is my very first “Hello World” .Net application. It is very trivial (a timer object that updates a text box with the current time), but has made me realize that .Net isn’t all that different from MFC, and that C# is not much different from Java or even C++. I just need to take the time to learn some class libraries!
http://files.reisun.org/WindowsApplication1.exe