C# vs. VC++

C# doen't look very compatible to VC++ code.
So are there any tools available to convert C++ code to C#?

[thegios]

keep in mind that C++ and VC++ are not 2 different languages, while C++ and C# are. VC++ is a development environment for building win32 apps in C++. C# is anew language and, as far as I know, there is no VC#, even if it seems that Microsoft is going to include C# into Visual Studio 7.

I've seen things u ppl couldn't believe...

Well C# is supposed to be a combination of VB and C++. C# does not have its own class library so you will be using the VB and VC++ libraries. For instance this is the C# Hello World example:

using System;
class Hello
{
static void Main() {
Console.WriteLine("Hello, World");
}
}

[Jon Clark]

urk.

I still don't understand what Microsoft hopes to gain from this (aside from a new language becoming standard, requiring all users upgrade to Visual Studio 7).
Even though MS claims C# is simplifying C++, it just feels more complex. Maybe they did it this way so the development environment can handle code visually?
The specs look like language is riddled with redundancies. Ah, as long as it doesn't overwrite Visual C++, I'll be happy. :)

I exclusively use Visual C++ at work. I know what I'm doing is way harder than it should be (hollow libraries, too difficult to use, etc) . Hopefully C# is much more productive.

i hate microsoft and VC++, C#, what did they REALLY want to do?
kept me STUDYING, STUDYING......perhaps C# is a good commercial
production. but i donot like it.

I would say stay away from it. C++ is supported by Unix, linux, so on and so on. C# your stuck withing Microsoft's world. I have to say i like many things Microsoft has done. "Not all" but C# would not be the way to go specially with the popularity of Linux. Stick with what you can carry with you from OS to OS.

Try to be markettable in all areas not just MS's world.

Hollow libraries? such as?

I agree C++ can be difficult to use, but mainly because people can't be bothered to learn the language properly.

[whbloodworth]

i hate microsoft and VC++, C#, what did they REALLY want to do? kept me STUDYING, STUDYING......perhaps C# is a good commercial
production. but i donot like it.

Sounds like you just want to hate. And it also appears that you're just lazy and want to sit around... Just continue to be lazy and stop learning new things... someone motivated will take your place soon enough and we won't have to read *****y, unproductive posts like yours.

W. Bloodworth


Great Success REQUIRES Great Effort!

[whbloodworth]

[i]I agree C++ can be difficult to use, but mainly because people can't be bothered to learn the language properly.[\i]

Amen brother!

W. Bloodworth

Great Success REQUIRES Great Effort!

Let's be quite clear about MS motives here. They lost the suit with Sun about Java. Therefore J++ from MS is dead. Competition is heating up with Java developement accelerating, and thus MS must try something different. In the MS world they can create anything and thus C# was developed to try and stem the tide.

As stated earlier, if you want to remain cross platform then continue to use C++. If you are going to remain exclusively in the MS world ( very big ) then certainly try C#.

Yes! I will not use these kind of vendor specific things either.
I love to work with Visual C++ when developing "ordinary" Client/Server software to Windows but to Internet and multiplatform projects Java is very good. In my projects Java's execution time has never been problem because JNI and C++ libraries are then used to speed up software. And when multiplatform things (Unix!!) has been a problem, I have developed software in Windows environment and then moved it to Unix. This has been very good way to approach the problem.

Markets keeps developers allways studing and it's hard to study allways a new "concept". I have handled this thing so, that when I can use Visual C++ I use it, and if new software is very internet related or target is multiplatform I use Sun's Java. Java very nice language as a second programming language to C++ developers. I think it is worh of learning and of course, worth of using.

[Andreas Masur]

More productive???? Do not forget...you are talking about a microsoft product...so you will need a gigahertz RAM, 1 gigabyte of RAM, more than 750 Megabyte free space on your harddisk...and then you will get the same performance and productivity as you have with your Pentium II 350 Mhz CPU nowadays... :-)))

Andreas Masur

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