Re: Java vs. .NET Face/Off

[Shane_Cessna@xxxxxxx]

All:

I'm going to be taking a new position doing C#.NET development not on an
iSeries (very sad about that)...

What's the best online resources for C#.NET development besides what Aaron
mentioned here?

Shane Cessna
Senior Programmer
North American Lighting, Inc.
217.465.6600 x7776


                                                                       
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> I am a newbie both with the program and the language so feel free to
suggest improvements.

This suggestion isn't necessarily an improvement but an alternative.
Whenever I am teaching people C#.NET I always point them to SharpDevelop
which is a free/open-source IDE that is very *similar* to Visual Studio.  I
am sure Visual Studio has more meat/features, but many may not need them,
and if you don't want *as much* vendor lock-in then Sharp Develop is a nice
alternative.

http://sharpdevelop.net/OpenSource/SD/Default.aspx

I mostly use it for consuming RPG web services from .NET, but it also has
all the cool features of drag and drop GUI creation.

my $.02,
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 7:27 AM, Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen <
thunderaxiom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx skrev  den 13-08-2008 18:52:
> > Cool! Yeah, DLL just means dynamic link library, after all.
> >
> > I just looked at the IKVM site - Richard, my boss, does all the .Net,
so
> I hear about it - have not had time to actually use it - have done quite
a
> bit of pre-.Net VB development.
> > So the site said that you can create a DLL from a JAR file - and that
DLL
> is what you can use in .Net. Therefore, you can take jt400.jar and make a
> DLL from it that is usable in .Net - and since anyone can use ikvmc to do
> it, seems there is no need to publish it.
> >
> Got it working with Visual Studio C# Express.
>
> Download ikvm.  Run "ikvmc -target:library ....pathtojt400.jar".  It
> generates jt400.dll
>
> Open Visual Studio C# Express, create a console application project,
> right click on project node and add references to jt400.dll and (bummer)
> IKVM.OpenJDK.ClassLibrary.dll.  Then the following code runs:
>
> ===
> using System;
> using System.Collections.Generic;
> using System.Text;
> using com.ibm.as400.access;
>
> namespace ConsoleApplication1
> {
>    class Program
>    {
>        static void Main(string[] args)
>        {
>            com.ibm.as400.access.AS400 as400 = new
> com.ibm.as400.access.AS400("system", "user", "password");
>            IFSFile ifs = new com.ibm.as400.access.IFSFile(as400, "/");
>            foreach (String s in ifs.list()) {
>                Console.Out.WriteLine(s);
>
>            };
>            as400.disconnectAllServices();
>            Console.Out.WriteLine("Done");
>
>        }
>    }
> }
> ===
>
> I am a newbie both with the program and the language so feel free to
> suggest improvements.
>
> The major impediment between this and the same solution in plain java is
> the extra baggage of the 25 Mb IKVM...dll file.  Oh well :)
>
> --
>  Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen          "... plus... Tubular Bells!"
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