Hey everyone,

I began about 3 years working with C++ and loved the great features like it's excellent OOP features, operator overloading, etc... it was great. However, it really lacked I found when it came to the visual side.

Now that I'm in university we're all being taugh JAVA which is very close to C++ but lacks the good stuff in my opinion like operator overloading and well just seems like a weak language.

And now Microsoft brought us C# which looks really promising. Come Monday I think I'll go and purchase a few books on it.

How does everyone else feel about C#?

I feel very enthusiastic abt the way .net is launched.
c# is definately great attempt
and so is J#

But no port for linux..dissappoints me.
:(

mono project is working on a Linux port. So is Corel I belive. And dotnetgnu.

C# is really cool if you ask me. But I think it will take a while before it ( or actually I mean the whole .NET thing ) is useful for Internet programming.

Considering MS has had such problems with security in IIS and the ASP engine, what will happen now when the language is not an sandbox anymore but instead opens up the whole system for trhe developer...

But for desktop programming I think it rocks. Both the language itself and the Visual Studio IDE.

I've used the C++ Visual IDE which is utterly useless I find when it comes to understanding the coding and multi-inheritance of the Windows API. Half of the necessary code you never see since it is inserted by the wizard.

However, I noticed in C# that the programming of objects and elements is much more like VB. One example is a text box in C# you can now do txtBox.Text = "Joe" which in my mind is a lot more user friendly.

I think a person now who had a knowledge of VB and C++ could easy jump right into C# without any problems, well other then a few different system commands etc...

As well I've been working on a few VB projects but I'm done with them, I'll convert them all over to C# now.