Re:Microsoft introduces Universal Windows apps
by interpol_p on Thursday April 03, 2014 @01:09AM
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> C# is a much higher-level language than C, with a much richer set of libraries that can be relied upon to be everywhere. That's why it matters.
Actually this is not true. I've just been tasked with maintaining some C# code that is used as a business tool.
No problem, I thought, I'll just use Xamarin and Mono on my Mac. I made progress, but as soon as the C# code went to use the OleDbConnection stuff (to write to an MS Access database and make Excel files) it threw a DLLNotFoundException. So now I have to find a Windows machine to do the rest of my debugging.
Actually this is not true. I've just been tasked with maintaining some C# code that is used as a business tool.
No problem, I thought, I'll just use Xamarin and Mono on my Mac. I made progress, but as soon as the C# code went to use the OleDbConnection stuff (to write to an MS Access database and make Excel files) it threw a DLLNotFoundException. So now I have to find a Windows machine to do the rest of my debugging.