Evaluation of the effort: using C / Win32 or learning C # /. NET

Question

I intend to write a small application to scratch my personal itch and possibly make life easier for some colleagues. Here is what I have:

• Over 10 years experience in C
• A lot of experience in programming against the Win16 / 32 API in C from Win3.1 to 2000 days.
• The C library I wrote already does about 75% of what the application should do.

What the application should do:

• open the binary file, transfer it to the specified library.
• take the resulting text and load it into a new Excel workbook.
• apply some formations.
• go well with the Windows environment (presence in "Open With ...", remember some things, using the registry, etc.)
• (maybe later) before transferring the CSV data to Excel, analyze it by looking at the meaning of some values ​​in the XML file.

With the exception of the XML parsing part, I did all this before including COM / Office Automation in C / Win32. There is a lot of template code, but this is doable, and the result will be a fairly small application without the need for installation.

So why even think about C # /. Net?

• No XML parsing experience
• the promise of less conditional code for Windows and Excel files (yes, I made C ++ with OWL, MFC, ATL, etc., but I don’t go there anymore - not for free / fun)
• Since I also have experience with C ++, VB (not .Net) and a bit of Java / Objective-C, I think that learning C # will be related to .Net libraries, not the language.

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Answer 8

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No, you need to learn a lot about the language (delegates, events, generics ...), and it is also object-oriented, and it manages memory by itself and yes there are no pointers :)

anyway, C # and .NET - all you need is some effort to speed up.