Need help with C#

Archimond · 26th June 2012, 07:27

Hello,

I would like to develop an own application. I am a novice programmer and only have knowledge in C and C++. I became quite interested of a site that offers several sample programs. They are developed with the help of an SDK. The thing I am facing is that the samples are provided in C# and unfortunately I do not have any experience with it. Could you please help me and give advices how to start using this software or any sample programs? Maybe I should only try it after learnt enough about C#. I appreciate if you can help me. Thanks.

**fivesidecube** · 26th June 2012, 13:39

Hi Archimond,

Welcome to the forums.

If you're experienced in C++ then you should find that the jump t C# easier than the other way around. C# is similar to C++ and has a very similar syntax but some of the special tricks (like pointer arithmetic) won't work. This is because C# manages pointers (known as references in C#) for you. You still need to allocate objects via 'new' but the language tracks the number of references to an object and performs garbage collection for you (meaning no 'delete' instructions.

To get started, you're going to need a compiler. MS provide a free edition of Visual Studio that should suit (at least to get learning).

There are some reasonable code samples at http://www.java2s.com/Code/CSharp/La...age-Basics.htm.

**mmi** · 26th June 2012, 14:54

Hey Archimond and welcome to the city that likes to help, within reason.

I noticed that the IP you registered from is located in Hungary. As you may know, the offices of Ozeki Systems are located there as well.

I also noticed that you've posted this same query on several other sites in recent days, one of which elicited the following response:

I may be wrong, but this just has to be spam (though creative spam).

Not a programmer, but want to develop an application dealing with some rather complex protocols? Add to this asking not on any of the usual programming sites/forums but on a review site (not that this wont get a valid answer, but rather odd for a first post) and I cant see this being anything but spam. — Legit Reviews

And it looks like forums.aspfree.com has deleted yer thread.

So are you really asking this question to get help working with programming, or simply to promote a product?