Frank W. Zammetti wrote: >On Fri, January 27, 2006 8:11 am, David Smith said: > > >>I will say I have used their products to develop solutions in the past >>and it's ... well ... interesting. The stuff works well when you know >>how to use it. Unfortunately I found their docs no where near the >>quality of Tomcat or Java which prolonged development on something that >>should have been extremely simple. >> >> > >Wow, I've had just the opposite experience with their stuff. Especially >in terms of documentation, I've always found MSDN to be some of the best >documentation around, generally far superior to most open-source >documentation (my guess is they have some generally non-technical editors >looking it over... I can't imagine that quality of writing came from >techies!) I will say though that they do tend to be a little short on >examples, something open-source tends to have a lot more of. > >
Examples are IMHO the best documentation. I can get a lot more information info with a good example. Plus I think the MS docs hide too much of the internals -- a pain when you are analyzing the corner conditions that might cause an app to fail or unexpected behavior. >I think it's a difference in culture behind it... MS is coming from a more >"professional", business-like approach, and in that mindset writing >documentation takes on more importance. In the open-source world, there's >much more of the "here's an example, go look at it and learn" kind of >mentality. I'm not making a judgment on which is better, I think they >both have their pluses and minuses, just pointing out what I see as a >difference. > > > >>Also the whole C#/aspx design is >>centered around events just like Windows itself which I find just a >>little disconcerting. Not a problem if you're already familiar with >>programming in Access. I would prefer a cleaner, more visible flow. >> >> > >I'm not sure where the Access analogy comes in, but I do agree in that if >you haven't done much with the event-driven model before then it can be a >little disconcerting. I think we're seeing the same thing in the Java >space with JSF right now... it's a basically event-driven model (they call >it component-oriented, but it's in many ways the same thing), and this is >somewhat new to many... ASP.Net is like bringing Windows programming to >the web, whereas JSF is like bringing Swing to the web... imperfect >analogies I suppose, but close enough :) > > > The layout controls in Access are all very event driven, just like C#/aspx technology. > > >Frank > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
