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A consistent, thought through design?

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Please explain further than that. I mean, what does this "consistant, thought through design" add to the language? I can code in C++ very easily, regardless of what you may find wrong with the design.



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One thing is type safe methods called properties if you try and send a char to a method that takes an int it will throw an exeception. That is another part of the language it has SEH built into it (Structured Error Handleing? I forget what it means) It is the error handleing that you use with the Try{..} Catch{...} blocks. Every thing in C# is an object kinda like Java even the variables (I don''t think Java has that part) so every base class has basic methods. If you want a better comparison http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cscon/html/vclrfComparisonBetweenCCSharp.asp

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Original post by The Reindeer Effect
I can code in C++ very easily, regardless of what you may find wrong with the design.

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i too can code a "hello world" app pretty easily.

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Original post by The Reindeer Effect
What does it have to offer that isn't available in C++?

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Reflection. 'Nuff said.

[edited by - sark on December 7, 2002 12:25:17 PM]

Remoting.

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Reflection is awesome:

I really like the fact that you can build a (C#) DLL (they call it assembly). Then you load it from your C# app and can ask it what classes it contains. Then you can ask the class if it supports a certain interface. If it does, you create an instance of the class, cast it to the interface and use it. Plugins were never simpler (and safer) ... just imagine the possibilities!

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