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http://www.amazon.com/Developing-Application-Frameworks-NET-Chen/dp/1590592883/ref=sr_1_23?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1260829282&sr=8-23>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Good comments. I guess I'm thinking that in the time it takes to learn what someone else has done, I could write my own - and add or leave out portions to fit my own needs. And the price is right.
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>>>>>Excellent Craig. Thanks!
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>>>>Be sure to check out the copies available from Amazon resellers. I have had excellent luck with those.
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>>>>FWIW I think your statement that it's as easy to write a framework as learn one may be a little optimistic. JOMO.....
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>>>I never said it was easy.
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>>No, not exactly. Here is what I was responding to:
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>>"I guess I'm thinking that in the time it takes to learn what someone else has done, I could write my own - and add or leave out portions to fit my own needs. And the price is right."
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>>I don't care what value you place on your time, there is no way you are going to build your own framework for $700 worth of labor. So I don't think price is a factor.
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>>Good luck with whatever you decide!
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>Price & time are not the issues. I just wanted to kill 2 birds. Learn C# better and create a framework. And I don't wanna spend a year decoding someone else's app to see what they've done. I would like to see a bullet list of features, but I learn best by doing, not reading.
But you do realize why one might feel this a little like saying "I want to build a car in order to learn auto mechanics but I don't want to take the time to examine a professionally designed, tested, currently working car, I just want to dive in and build one from scratch."
You might even have the chops or native genius to do it, but still doesn't seem like the shortest distance between two points <s> Whenever I hear somebody saying they are approaching building a framework that way my assumption is automatically that they probably have never really examined a professionally built framework.
( and I do understand none of that may apply to you personally , but it does still seems like huge time and money suck )
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