C# is sexy.

I’m quite slow to move on to new technologies. Infact I even thought that Microsofts .net platform sounded like a dumb idea. But I suppose theres a lesson there, “Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it” as the saying goes.

My inital adversion to .net was largely caused by having the end-user need the framework installed on their machine. But with Vista now rolling off the shelves we can be more confident in users actually having the framework. Which is good for small companies who do the majority of their distribution online. Getting someone to download and try your product is one thing. Convincing them to install the .net framework after running your program and finding that it doesn’t work straight away is another.

But anyway, C# is sexy. I used to use VB6.0 for many of my homegrown-inhouse gamedev tools. But now I’m going to be using C#

The power of C++ with the nice drag and drop functionality of VB for creating windows forms apps - Its a good thing to have.