Any .NET developers out there

[TheOutragedApe]

Oh bugger, another school IT techy!

XML is a tool to allow the others to work - I use it for an application I wrote to do SQL updates. I send an updategram to my central SQL server which updates my database...and it's fooking simply to learn, as there's not that much to it.

C# and ASP.net are probably your best bets - VB will be phased out soon enough or so I hear. You know PHP/MySQL so these won't be very hard to you at all.

Which school though? o_O

Which school?, ah that would be telling

Cheers for all the info

[Tom Salter]

And what the job entails, right? .NET still only runs on the Windows platforms (and Mono on Linux I've heard is a bit of a joke) and is completely non-portable. This rules out all games (as much as I love Managed DirectX, its a bit of a piss take), smartphones and PDAs with non-MS OSs or anywhere where the .Net framework is not installed. Which is alot of places.

But is it a lot of places? You'll find windows is still on 95% or more office computers.

[edandersen]

But is it a lot of places? You'll find windows is still on 95% or more office computers.

Yeah, the problem is that most people can only be arsed to download and install 20MB of runtimes if they need the application desperately or its bespoke, made for them.

Try making Joe Bloggs "download the .net runtimes" to use your bo notepad killer. Not going to happen.