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LabR@t

LabR@t

LabR@t

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c# or java , I have messed around with java a little at college no much and a little c++ i can write small console programs to some effect.
 
Maybe a bit of both are worth learning as each is better suited to doing different stuff and they can be used together in the same app e.g C# front-end, Java back-end.

Java has the advantage that it can be run largely independent of platform e.g Windows/Linux/Solaris etc. I believe, though stand to be corrected, that Java is more flexible in the type of server components (beans) it can create e.g session, entity etc. Only an issue if you're going to write some pretty heavyweight server code but interesting nonetheless.

There again C# has big advantages when it comes to writing Windows applications (ease, speed of writing, closeness to Windows etc). There is also the possibility of running C# on Linux using Mono though I'm not sure what the state of this is now.

IDE wise I use NetBeans which is good though nothing really touches the MS .Net development tools for ease of use etc.

It really depends what you have in mind to write. Just my opinions....
 
I'd say you'd be much better off with C# then.

Windows GUI design in Java, using Swing at any rate, isn't the quickest or most intuitive thing in the world to develop.
 
Both are pretty much equal.

A few points:
- Compared to the comprehensiveness of the Javadoc documentation of the Java API, the documentation of the .Net libraries is quite frankly awful.
- C# is probably better if your making GUIs.
 
any idea where i can look st some code that will let me bind a button to save the infomation in some textboxes to the sql DB?
 
You just write an event handler for the button and attach it.

Once the button is clicked you can run your function that gets the contents of the text box's and adds it to the database.

Thats how I would do it anyhow.
 
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