Hi. As you could probably tell, I am trying to learn Wealthscript. I am not a programmer. I have read a little of C# tutorials on line, and currently I am reading the WLP Programming guide under Help tab. And as you can imagine, things seem/look very foreign to me. Do you have suggestions as to how I could most efficiently navigate the learning curve? Did other people say anything about how they learned?

Joanna

WealthScript is .NET programming. WLP/D uses C# natively and in the integrated Editor,but if you want to program in your own development environment, you can pick any .NET language you want; let me repeat - ANY .NET language - and there are more than 20.

It's just programming and there's nothing about WealthScript that is proprietary in nature. To learn programming, you look at the thousands and thousands of examples that are available to you. You run them, you pick pieces of them and incorporate them in your own solutions. And most of all, you can't learn by just reading a book. You need to type and execute, and do it regularly to maintain your skill level.

Thanks Cone. I realize the stuff about .NET. I was asking how to most efficiently learn to program in that environment, and I guess your answer was that I needed to practice a lot by typing in the examples, etc.

Our strategy is coded in C#, but if we wanted to add things into the strategy, can we add things that are coded in C, C++, etc, and mix them in? Or does a strategy have to be written in one coherent language? Thanks.

Joanna

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Our strategy is coded in C#, but if we wanted to add things into the strategy, can we add things that are coded in C, C++, etc, and mix them in?

No to C and C++, but for another managed language like VB.NET you may try Dynamic Compilation from System.CodeDom.

I was just revisiting Cone's posting on this topic two days ago. When you say: " thousands and thousands of examples that are available to you," where is the best place to go to view the examples so that I can cut and paste into my editor, and practice programming? Thanks a million.

Joanna

If there's single best place that covers near everything C# for beginners, it might be dotnetperls.com.

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