The Mint
Today I sat down to code a shiny new feature but instead found myself ripped into the past to work on a feature that shipped long ago. Bugs in general are never fun but revisiting a feature that you’ve long since “finished” is especially annoying. Today was no exception.
As the result of a rather insulting discussion with an anti-VB coworker I challenge myself to jump the fence from VB to C# land. I wanted to experience first hand what all the fuss was about. So I dove head-first into building my first C# project. That was nearly four months ago.
My new company is your typical enterprise business. They had an in-house application created with Microsoft Access. As the company grew the Access app couldn’t keep up and the need to rewrite the software became obvious. After some false starts in Access they finally settled on VB.NET as the new language of choice. All this occurred a few years prior to my arrival.
