That's an amazing amount of misinformation, bad advice and general misunderstanding of frameworks for just one message < g >
>>>>I find it amusing that so many people seem so threatened by what is just empirically good advice.
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>>OK, can you give me a few sample people or message id#s where people act threatened rather than bored?
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>I'm starting to get the impression that some of this "good advice" is all about buying into their ".NET tools/courseware", or trying to get others to validate their decisions.
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>My "advice" is, if one is going to learn .NET, they'd be better served learning the unadulterated stuff first as opposed to hiding behind a "framework" (or whatever).
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>Odds are, the next ".NET employer" (if you're not doing this on your own) will have little interest in "your favorite framework/tool" (since they may have their own), or exclude you because you don't know the basics and can't program in "raw mode".
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>I'm sure there will be more .NET frameworks in the future, but it will be from outfits with a lot more resources (and expertise in .NET) than ex-VFP coders tinkering away in their spare time.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
