MCDBA - Module Choice

[Rainbowhawk]

Morning All,

The company I work for has decided to send me on a MCDBA course and has asked me to choice which one of the elective modules I wish to do.

My choices are

Visual Basic .NET for Web 70-305 Series
Visual C# Web Applications 70-315 Series
Microsoft .NET Applications 70-316
Visual C# XML MCAD 70-320 Series

All which sound good but I am not sure which would be best.

Would appreciate your thoughts.

Hawk

 

[boblarson]

My suggestion, since a lot of companies use it is Visual C# for Web Applications. I would prefer myself to work with VB.NET but the trend I've noticed is that C# is the preferred .NET development language for web apps, and even a lot of desktop apps.

 

[Rainbowhawk]

Thanks for that guys, certainly going to require a lot of thought.

As I understand it the company I work for is wants to move away from access databases and move over to a server based system.

My gut is telling me that C is more practical but that VB is easier to learn.


Will ponder it as I have a few weeks to decide

 

[Rainbowhawk]

The reason they don't like access is that it is

1) not the most secure application

We have a lot of people who like to meddle with the databases

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2) we are using access 97

 

[georgedwilkinson]

And you can write massively unsecure programs in Java, C++, C# .Net, ASP .Net, and VB .Net, usually through bad programmer habits. Security is not normally a good reason to avoid or select any of them because you can screw just about any environment up pretty bad.

 

[whitespace]

These days I reckon it's more about learning the framework (ie .net) than the language. If you learn C# then you'd find it pretty easy to pick up VB.net and vice versa.

However, personally I'd go for C# as it seems to be the one Microsoft are concentrating on - for example they have launched an API for developing games on xbox 360 called XNA - all support and guidance on this is in C# only.

As an added bonus C# is almost identical to java so you'd be learning that as well.

Finally it would be slightly easier to learn VB.net from C# as you'd be used to using case sensitive variables/objects whereas as going to C# from VB.net you might struggle to get used to this. The key though is learning object oriented programming principles - from there learning C#/VB.NET is just learning different syntax really.