C# Developers' Journal (original) (raw)

Intro & Minor Complaints

Hello,

I was thrown into a C# project at the beginning of January, so I've been messing with it for a little while now. I joined this community out of curiosity. I wanted to see what other C/C++/Java/etc. developers are saying about it.

I haven't had any big problems with it so far. For the most part, it lets me do my own thing and tells me exactly what I've done that it doesn't like. Two minor annoyances, though:

1. Arrays can be set to start from index 1. This totally threw me off and I spent time trying to figure out how to "initialize an array before I used it" because you get an invalid container exception when you reference index 0 when it starts at 1 =P =P I finally clued in when I saw the GetUpperBound() and GetLowerBound() methods.

2. The Find feature won't find text that's inside closed regions. That took a little getting used to. How many times did I rely on a search, not find a method, write it and then build only to see that a method by the same name having the same parameters is already there? =P

BTW, is there a quick way to open all regions and subregions in one shot? I don't see anything in the right-click pop-up and I can't find anything in the menus that makes sense...

And I'm sure there are more.

I'd be curious to hear what other little roadblocks people have come up against when they first started.

Cheers, =)