Okay, the problem with learning C++/MFC is that there's not a lot of work around in that area. What there is is very highly paid, but there are loads of people with 10 years experience competing for it, so it's a difficult market to break into.
.NET rubbish will almost certainly be a good way to go employmentwise. Rumour has it that this is actually possible without selling your soul completely. It's actually fairly nifty once you get into it. The languages shouldn't pose any challenges if you've a reasonable amount of experience of similar languages. An experienced programmer should be able to learn everything they need to know about VB.NET, C# and J# in about a day. It's no harm to be able to say you know all three.
The major learning curve is the .NET framework. There are litterly thousands of classes, and while a lot of them are very specialised it's helpful to get a feel for what the whole framework can do. It can eliminate the need to code a lot of mundane tasks, so long as you know where to look for it. There have been times when I've spent a couple of hours working on a task only to discover I could do it in a couple of lines of code.
On the other hand, maybe I'll join you for coffee/brandy and ice-cream. Yumm!
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Date: 2003-10-03 02:33 am (UTC).NET rubbish will almost certainly be a good way to go employmentwise. Rumour has it that this is actually possible without selling your soul completely. It's actually fairly nifty once you get into it. The languages shouldn't pose any challenges if you've a reasonable amount of experience of similar languages. An experienced programmer should be able to learn everything they need to know about VB.NET, C# and J# in about a day. It's no harm to be able to say you know all three.
The major learning curve is the .NET framework. There are litterly thousands of classes, and while a lot of them are very specialised it's helpful to get a feel for what the whole framework can do. It can eliminate the need to code a lot of mundane tasks, so long as you know where to look for it. There have been times when I've spent a couple of hours working on a task only to discover I could do it in a couple of lines of code.
On the other hand, maybe I'll join you for coffee/brandy and ice-cream. Yumm!