Re: My First C# (warning - long post)

andrewmcdonagh wrote:
Cool!

Yeah those names are a bit long (but then again, you only have to type
them once as intellisense will create them for you every other time),
but I did it deliberately to show the technique of 'convert comments
into private method names' to get you started on 'self documenting'
code.

That's cool. I tend to comment a lot - more than any other programmer in our shop. (We proved that by looking at the output from this class - my commenting average is between 22% and 28% compared to executable lines in COBOL...)

I'll continue to play with the class over the next few days when I get
time and post the new versions on here.... (I'm thinking we'll
transition to something like a dozen small classes working
together....)

This exercise is good for me too, as I've never used c# before, only
read about it...

I appreciate it - I'm glad it's helping you too. Of course, I'm sort of learning the two together, but I've been surprised how much Java works in C# - and if it doesn't work, it probably just has a different name.

Once we have this out of the way...the next biggest priority on your
learning curve, should be how to develop code that has a full suite of
automated Unit tests - NUnit is the unit testing framework of choice
for .Net and should even be integrated into vs2005.... Normally I
wouldn't do any code changes like these without a suite of unit tests
to show me instantly if I break something... but one leasson at a
time.

I'll have to look into that. How should I put this - code "robustness" has been an issue with some of our .net pages.

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