11 Mar 2010, 09:46
Post #1
(and by silverlight I mean Microsofts flashlike thingy, not the member on this forum)
I, as you may know, am a developer of apps for windows mobile and recently they have released information on the next version of windows mobile, called "Windows Phone 7 series" which to everyones surprise is a pretty kick ass mobile OS. They re-wrote it from the ground up and completely redid the interface.
One problem with this is its not backwards compatible with apps from previous windows mobile versions.
Up till now, i have been coding in Visual Basic.net which has kept me going.
I learned how to use it at college but have built up knowledge since then through continual usage. I had finally decided to change to a new language as VB does have its limitations.
One of my good friends called Oliver (who is my Coding Yoda) uses C++ as his main language (out of about 4 billion) and i thought "okay, ill give it a go"
I bought a book which ive been going through, learning some basics.
Ive got about halfway thought.
A couple of days ago I learned that apps for windows phone 7 are based upon silverlight for the UI and then .net for the inner workings.
Then yesterday I found out that silverlight doesnt support C++ ¬_¬
So.. my problem is that I want to learn a new language but i cant use C++
so Im going to have to go to C#
Oh well. Anyone out there used C# before?
Bleh. stupid silverlight.
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I, as you may know, am a developer of apps for windows mobile and recently they have released information on the next version of windows mobile, called "Windows Phone 7 series" which to everyones surprise is a pretty kick ass mobile OS. They re-wrote it from the ground up and completely redid the interface.
One problem with this is its not backwards compatible with apps from previous windows mobile versions.
Up till now, i have been coding in Visual Basic.net which has kept me going.
I learned how to use it at college but have built up knowledge since then through continual usage. I had finally decided to change to a new language as VB does have its limitations.
One of my good friends called Oliver (who is my Coding Yoda) uses C++ as his main language (out of about 4 billion) and i thought "okay, ill give it a go"
I bought a book which ive been going through, learning some basics.
Ive got about halfway thought.
A couple of days ago I learned that apps for windows phone 7 are based upon silverlight for the UI and then .net for the inner workings.
Then yesterday I found out that silverlight doesnt support C++ ¬_¬
So.. my problem is that I want to learn a new language but i cant use C++
so Im going to have to go to C#
Oh well. Anyone out there used C# before?
Bleh. stupid silverlight.
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