I understand why you'd be worried about resources and such using an
underpowered computer, but scrapping Visual Studio and using Notepad
doesn't make a bunch of sense to me. VS's enhancements save SO much
time writing and formatting code, troubleshooting, etc.

On Dec 14, 10:46 am, Brandon Betances <[email protected]> wrote:
> very cool, wasnt sure how vs would run on a netbook. your best bet is to
> learn to edit files without vs2008 or 2005 and use notepad. cheers.
>
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Jamie Fraser <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>
>
> > I have a HP 311c netbook and it runs Windows 7 quite nicely.
>
> > Development, however, is a little slow on a netbook, due to the single core
> > Atom processor.
>
> > On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Brandon Betances 
> > <[email protected]>wrote:
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> >> cant windows 7 run on a netbook? if so you should probably update to that.
>
> >> and F# from what i hear is good functional programming. unfortunately
> >> functional programming isnt very useful unless you work in an analytic
> >> academic or high-science field like aerospace. may as well just learn c#
> >> first.
>
> >>   On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 1:50 PM, ShinoZuka <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> >>> Hello. This is my First post to this group. I haven't coded since
> >>> 2003. Now I want  to get back into the game.  I have been reading
> >>> about F#. As I understand  I will need a good background in C#. Is
> >>> that correct?
>
> >>> The other thing is I was thinking of getting a netbook with Win CE 5
> >>> to go along with my HP notebook I normally use.  But then I was
> >>> wondering if I am  using Visual Studio on the HP laptop is there any
> >>> stripped version of Visual Studio or another programming application I
> >>> could run on Windows  CE 5 so I could continue my project<s> when
> >>> using the netbook?  It was just a thought.
>
> >>> Any feedback is appreciated.
>
> >>> ----
> >>> Shino

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