>>So far my impression is that unless you are working with .net on a daily basis it is difficult to retain.
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>That's as true of .NET as it is of anything new you try to learn. I found that while I was reading a lot of .NET books a couple of years ago, it didn't sink in as much as it did when I started working with it every day. Plus, a lot of the books of a few years ago were not very helpful ... they were written using the beta version so some things had changed, which broke a lot of the code samples. Very frustrating. If you were to start now with learning .NET, you'd be well advised to make sure you have fairly recent books.
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>~~Bonnie


Bonnie;

Dot NET books are a true problem! I bought and returned over a dozen. Each one said it was for version 1.0 or 1.1. One of the books had a printed date of 2003, and I bought it early 2002. The author went to long lengths to insist it was created using “the latest released version of Visual Studio .NET. Few of the examples worked as method names were mostly from Beta 1.

With releases of Dot NET coming at about once a year, I will soon not have room to enter my house! It has become a library of obsolete, and in many cases, useless information. Thank God the local public library is willing to take these dead trees from me.

Tom