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I'm a new developer and am planning to write an application for church office administration. It would keep track of facility usage, payroll, members, attendees, donations and general accounting. I've looked into a couple different languages and have narrowed it down to J# or Omnis Studio (Omnis.net), which appears to be underdeveloped.

However, I'm having trouble finding resources (in print or electronic form) for J# and learning it looks fairly tough. Should I buy a book on Java to learn J#? Can I build the type of software that I'm trying to in VJ# 2005 Express B2? Thanks in advance for the timely responses.

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# 1

J# is not as popular as C# or VB.NET and it's true that there are fewer resources available.

You might be interested in our new converter, Instant J#, which converts VB.NET code to J#. You can download a free demo at www.tangiblesoftwaresolutions.com. This will allow you to translate any resources or samples you find that are coded in VB.NET.

Regards,
David Anton
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DavidAnton at 2007-9-9 >

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# 2

You might want to take a look at following resources to learn about VJ#

- Book- Visual J#. NET by John Sharp, Andy Longshaw

- http://msdn.microsoft.com/vjsharp/downloads/codenotes/default.aspx

- http://msdn.microsoft.com/vjsharp for any Vjsharp related information.

Thanks,

VarunGupta at 2007-9-9 >

# 3

Thanks for the help! The CodeNotes look pretty helpful. Why is there a lack of information on J#? Is it stable? Is J# the write language to use?

Trenton1 at 2007-9-9 >

# 4

Can I use MySQL with J# 2005?

Trenton1 at 2007-9-9 >

# 5

J# is not nearly as popular as C# or VB.NET. It's based on an early Java standard and was born out of a Microsoft attempt to swing Java developers over to Microsoft (J++ was the pre-.net attempt). C# is very similar except that it adds a lot of features that aren't available in J# or Java.

J# is stable as far as I've seen - it's just a little annoying if you're used to some niceties such as enums, properties, member calls on primitives, etc. However, there's something to be said for it's extreme simplicity - it's the simplest language I have seen. If you're a "less is more" kind of developer, then J# may be for you.
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DavidAnton at 2007-9-9 >

# 6

Hi Trenton,

J# is pretty stable language to use, it is now going towards its third release Visual J# 2005.

You can learn more about J# product overview at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vjsharp/productinfo/overview/default.aspx

Cheers,
Varun

VarunGupta at 2007-9-9 >

# 7

When is that expected to release? I've been reading over the CodeNotes, which have helped. If my applicaton (church management) consists of numerous fields where an end-user would type data in and it would be stored in a DB, where should I look for code questions? Are there any sites that have code samples like that for J#? Do I search for "Java Database Connection String" and see what I get?

The big question: Should I begin developing in beta 2 of J# or wait until its release in September?

Do you have an MSN Messenger ID to chat?

Note: I found this tutorial online which appears to be pretty helpful from a noob standpoint: http://www.functionx.com/jsharp/Lesson01.htm.

Trenton1 at 2007-9-9 >

# 8

Hi,
You can start developing in J#. No need to wait for final release. The current beta2 version of J# is strong enough to start any kind of development.

For J# samples you would like to go through this link ... This link has got few good samples on data management.

For any questions, feel free to drop a mail on this forum. We will try to address the issue with minimum possible delay.

Thanks.

JaiprakashSharma at 2007-9-9 >

# 9

David Anton wrote:
J# is not nearly as popular as C# or VB.NET. It's based on an early Java standard and was born out of a Microsoft attempt to swing Java developers over to Microsoft (J++ was the pre-.net attempt). C# is very similar except that it adds a lot of features that aren't available in J# or Java.
J# is stable as far as I've seen - it's just a little annoying if you're used to some niceties such as enums, properties, member calls on primitives, etc. However, there's something to be said for it's extreme simplicity - it's the simplest language I have seen. If you're a "less is more" kind of developer, then J# may be for you.
David Anton
www.tangiblesoftwaresolutions.com
Home of:
Instant C#: VB.NET to C# Converter
Instant VB: C# to VB.NET Converter
Instant J#: VB.NET to J# Converter

J# 2.0 (Shipped with visual studio has support for both enums and properties). Here is a sample enum declaration/use in J#...

public enum Color
{
Red,
Blue,
Green
}

Color bookColor = Color.Red;

To know about properties in J#, please refer following blogs of mine :)...

http://blogs.msdn.com/jaiprakash/archive/2005/10/25/484547.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/jaiprakash/archive/2005/10/27/485551.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/jaiprakash/archive/2005/10/27/485524.aspx

For any other question/issue with J#, please drop a post here.

Thanks.

JaiprakashSharmaMSFT at 2007-9-9 >

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