"Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
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> Gail wrote:
>
>> Ever seen anything written in C#?
>
> Nope.

The job market in the UK must be very different it both here and US. 
Probably close to half of the programming jobs I see these days ask for C#.

Thing with .net is that if you're working on a machines that has the .net 
framework installed (and I believe everything past XP does by default), you 
won't know that you're running a .net app. It's not like Java where you can 
see the VM running in task manager (or sometimes have a popup in the task 
bar). That's how it's supposed to be. It's supposed to be seamless and to 
not bother the end user with anything they don't need to know.

I know your machine has .net on because we've had conversations before on 
free C# compilers and I recall you finding the framework folder.

>> Ever seen any website with .aspx pages?
>
> Ah. *That* I have seen.
>
> (I thought ASP was some kind of scripting language. I didn't realise it 
> had anything to do with .NET.)

It's a server-side dynamic page setup like php. It uses the .net framework 
on the server. .aspx pages are asp.net, pages with just the .asp extension 
are the older-style asp (active server pages)
ASP.NET pages are written in one of the .net languages, most commonly C# or 
VB)

> Well true, but even so, you don't often hear somebody say "hey, I'm 
> working on this thing written in C#..."
>

Most of the developers I know personally work in C#. I'd put it up with 
Java, php, perl and C++ for popularity and usage, and that's not just 
hobbyist.
It's far more used than VB or delphi. (and most VB these days is VB.NET 
anyway)

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